Affiliate Links Are Still Better Than Adsense (Most Of The Time)
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However, I just wanted to do a short PSA that affiliate links and affiliate marketing are still my preferred choice to monetize a website! True, there are many ways to make money from a website, and display ads like Adsense is one possible way.
However, a well placed affiliate link can go really, really far.
For example, you may remember my blog about One Post Makes Me $300 Per Month. Or this one about how I made $500 from forgotten affiliate links.
Did you see last week when someone made $100k+ from a single sale?
Or what about this one about a $3000 Dollar Sale?
That's not to say that every single sale you make is going to be so impressive. But the potential is huge!
It's very tough to scale a website from 1,000 visits per day to 10,000 visits per day. It's a lot easier to scale 1 sale to 100 sales!
Two Affiliate Commission Tips!
When researching products to promote for your website, I always look for two things:
- High ticket items
- Recurring commissions
I don't exclusively promote those types of products, but they are just two things I keep in mind during my research. It's easier to make 1 sale for $100 than 100 sales for $1.
On top of that, a recurring affiliate program can mean you make a single sale that repeats for several years. I have money coming in from affiliate programs from back in 2011! That's 7 years of recurring sales so far!
Do you prefer display ads or affiliate marketing?
Do you use one or both on your websites?
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It's just a matter of trying to balance it out properly on your site.
Trying to ramp up my "pay per lead" game this year (among other things) to try to add another stream of revenue to the site.
But now I feel like I have everything covered and it's led to greater revenue. The pay per lead things has been my bread and butter since day 1. It amazes me how many people sleep on it and it provides so much income because the barrier of entry is so low for your users. So as long as you're doing effectively you can earn several extra thousands dollars per month with it and your users don't have to spend a dime for you to get paid. So it's definitely something to explore this year.
At least it'll mix in more diverse types of sales on your site, so you can make a big sale every couple of months, and small or medium sales consistently.
