Google Adsense; Affiliate Tips To Make It Work

Affiliate Marketing can be a great way to build wealth and capitalize on the traffic you are pushing to your site from PPC and SEO efforts. Basically you are letting Google put ads on your site via AdSense, and every time someone clicks on one of those ads, you get a commission. It isn’t much, can be pennies at a time, or sometimes dollars at a time (depending on the cost of click you’re sending to Google). But bottom line – as long as it costs you less to acquire those clicks than the commission you’re receiving, it will make you money.

When it comes to promoting things with Google AdSense, you simply need to pay less than the cost of the delivered clicks. You can find various ways to get a low cost-per-click price, to direct traffic towards your website, and to discover long-tail terms that are searched for. For instance, you want to promote a high-dollar ‘click’ at your website, such as ‘DUI Attorney’. What that ad is clicked on through Google AdSense, you can earn up to, and over, $30 for every click. This is significantly higher than other $3 per click search terms.

Now let’s suppose that you manage to find something like ‘DUI Attorney Pasadena, CA’ as a long-tail keyword search that is inexpensive. You are going to bid for a low position on this, say maybe .30 a click, and hope to get these low-cost clicks and more traffic to your website.

From there, you hope that what you offer on your site is more value-added (Like a site with DUI articles, or local Pasadena traffic articles) & attracts that person to click your AdSense ad, where you get paid say $1 per click. In this example, you are getting a large return on your .25, but it is incredibly risky & can be very costly if it doesn’t work out and will cost you $$ if 4 out of 5 people don’t convert. Many people have tried buying clicks at a low cost, then essentially ‘reselling’ on their own site, but have had little success. The point here is it will take you a lot of time, trial & error, and money to get the right recipe to profit from this.

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!

Anthony M. Flores is an expert in PPC Management and specializes in SEO in Los Angeles.Feel free to contact us with any questions regarding your internet marketing!