Google AdSense and affiliate marketing

[JMac]

Can AdSense and affiliate marketing work together?
At first, I thought the answer was a resounding "NO"! Google AdSense doesn't like to share pages with affiliate links. After a little thought though, I came up with a work around and I'm sure a lot of you have thought of the same opportunity.

I do the SEO for www.darkmountains.com - It is an outdoor gear site with reviews of gear and affiliate links to an outdoor gear supplier. Since the affiliate links are such a big part of the site and are on most of the pages, we felt there would not be a possibility for using Google's AdSense. In fact, the site was originally rejected by AdSense, I believe because it is chock full of affiliate links. So, while the affiliate links were not generating a whole lot of income for us, we could not make use of the traffic coming in using AdSense either. We thought of making the links to suppliers non-affiliate so that we could use ADSense instead but a few sales in a few days made us decide not to do that.
(And lose the commission dollars we'd already made?)

BIG LIGHT BULB OVER MY HEAD!!

We divided the site - We developed a section of what we call "Old school mountain skills" and wrote articles for the pages. On those pages, there are no affiliate links but there are links to the pages with affiliate links, of course. On the article pages though, we have Google AdSense on the side and it is making a difference overnight! (Besides the fact that it made us wake up to re-working the site a little...)

Well, just a thought for the day...

Good luck and prosperity to all.

JMac

[Linda Buquet]

JMac,

EXCELLENT post and a great topic! I'm certain some others who are trying to figure out how to integrate AdSense and affiliate marketing will have comments or at least benefit from the solution you came up with.

Thanks

[qball0213]

Well, I'm running it on the same pages and sales are still coming in, have noticed a slight dip in a couple, but the money from adsense more than makes up for it.

[john678]

Im also advertising some of my affiliate programs on the same pages as Google Adsense and I've found no decline in sales.

Infact I found that my affiliate programs still convert just as well as what they used to, but instead I also earn from Adsense at the same time giving me more revenue in the long run.

[bossmode]

If you are spending $1000's monthly on marketing your website, that is promoting quality products and services, then you should not place AdSense ads on your site. You don't want your competitors to drive away your prospects and sales.


If your site has a high volume of traffic and its based more on content rather than selling products and services. AdSense can bring in some extra revenue for you.

Please visit:

http://www.asdesnsemoney.com

for details on using AdSense.

[john678]

The answer to your question is a definate "YES"

I have affiliate programs listed on the same pages as Adsense and nothing has changed. I'm still getting the same amout of click thru's per 1000 impressions to what I was before I added adsense to my site.

As longs as the affiliate links look attractive to the viewer, then they will click on them and possibly make a sale.