Tips For Google AdSense Affiliate Marketing

June 5, 2010 · Print This Article

by Tony Garrudo

You can make a lot of use of the traffic that is coming to your site thanks to SEO and PPC efforts through affiliate marketing; and make a lot of money at the same time. If you are using Google Adsense, what this means is that any time someone clicks on any of the ads that Google has put on your site, you are earning a commission. Depending on the click that is going to Google, this can be anywhere from pennies to dollars that you are earning at any one time; either way, it isn’t going to be a whole lot. On the other hand, if they are paying you more in commission for the click than you paid to get it, you are going to be making money.

With Google AdSense promotions, it’s all about paying less than what the clicks you’re delivering is paying you. There are ways to find long-tail search terms, pay at a low cost-per-click, to get traffic to your site. Say you are promoting a high-dollar click on your website like DUI Attorney. That click on Google costs around $30+ per click, so the commission you will earn from AdSense will be much higher than a click that would cost $3 per click.

So, you’ve discovered a low-cost long-tail search term keyword, such as ‘DUI Attorney Pasadena CA’. When you place a bid for a position that is lower, for example 25 cents for each click, you have hopes that these less expensive clicks will draw an audience to your website.

From here, the content of your website should add value to these clicks by providing things like articles on DUI, or reprinting traffic reports local to Pasadena. These things will attract people to what you have to offer even more through our AdSense advertisement, and you can profit by $1 for each click. This this scenario, the profit that you receive from your 25 cent investment is very fair, but it’s also a practice that’s filled with risk, and it might be expensive if this audience doesn’t actually result in a majority of conversions. There have been plenty of people who have failed at purchasing low-cost clicks and attempting to resell them at their websites. If you invest money, and time to make mistakes, you’ll eventually discover your own perfect combination of factors to create a profit.

If you are going to put that much time into this effort, why not focus it on SEO for those same long-tail keywords? If you optimize your page right, you can still do the same work for less competitive words, and come up organically. Then it doesn’t matter as much what your CTR is, and will cost you a lot less $$. The only thing you are spending is your time. Once that initial time investment is over, then it cannot cost you any money out of your pocket – Whether it works or not!

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