I need some advice from Affiliate Pros

[greeneagle]

I need some advice from Affiliate Pros

I have been working pretty hard to develop different revenue streams, and decided that with over 100 unique, over 200 visitors and 400-800 page views per day that it was past time for me to monetize my site.

There are several games being played out, right now, including:

1) Obvious non-relevant paid links being depreciated (paid and relevant is OK)
2) Gray areas between what is “Competitive” with “AdSsense” and what is not.

I have quadrupled my AdSense revenue in the last week or so, with changes I have been making. At the beginning of 2006 I completely redesigned my Site’s architecture so that it was more “Monitization” friendly. In the last few days I maxed out AdSense, in what I hope is a non-intrusive manner. Now, I would like to go on and place some CJ and LC “RELEVANT ONLY” links to the pages.

What if, I placed one of the new PRWeb $.07/click towers on my PR and Article Pages with Adsense? Is the GOOG going to hammer me? The “gray matter” (in my head) there, revolves around the “relevancy” vs “competitive” issue there.

Can anyone one help me resolve this?

What is “competitive”? What crosses the line? Surely I can have Press Release affiliates on the same “Press Release and Writing Tips” page as “Adsense”, can’t I?

Any help would be appreciated in sorting out my “gray matter” here. Is “relevant” sacred enough to withstand the “competition” flag, in that region?

Thanks,

Ken

[ctabuk]

Well I'm not an expert on this by a long chalk, but I know where to go to get the answer www.warriorforum.com/forum

[chessmaniac]

I have found that if you email google they will responde to your questions. Whenever, I have a policy question I just shoot them an email and they get right back to me with the answer.

Worth a try.

Dennis

[Linda Buquet]

Ken,

Don't take this for Gospel as I don't work for Google or know their policy inside out - HOWEVER lots of affiliates display Adsense and affiliate links on the same page and I don't think it's a problem for G.

My understanding is you can't have another CONTEXTUAL ad on the same page - which affiliate links are not - or a competing text type ad that looks like or mimics Adsense. So if you created a BANK of CJ text links on the side of the page that looked like Adsense ads it would be a violation. But a link here, a banner there would not be.

Realize however that using both ad forms on the same page are traffic leaks. You could lose a BIG CPA sale commission cuz someone clicked over and off your site for a 5 cent Adsense commish. Or someone could go to merchant site instead of clicking Adsense so the Affiliate links could reduce your Adsense revenue.
The placement of each is going to play a part to.

Try to test and measure. If you know what you are doing and put in the effort you can make A LOT more with certain types of high converting affiliate programs. If you can find the right ones that work for your demographics, you may not want Adsense competing on the same page.

[mlevenhagen]

Warriors are everywhere Ctabuk, lol. You don't have to go there to find them! I've even seen '5 star' crawling around over there. :-)

This depends a lot on the traffic you are getting. The more untargeted the traffic, you might find them clicking the Adsense quit a bit more... that's why you'll here marketers that create bad pages on purpose. They want them to click away...

On the other hand, if you have quality content... if you have a sticky site with returning visitors... if your site (articles, posts) are optimized to draw traffic that is looking for exactly the information you are provided, you can use that opportunity to pre-sell affiliate programs through out your blog and make some nice affiliate sales...

I heard someone recently that had a popular product. He was concerned about putting Adsense on his web pages thinking that it would disrupt his conversions. Turned out it didn't touch his conversions.. and now he has another revenue stream.

And I've always thought a strong product and well written copy will overcome... leaks.

I use a combination in everything I do.

Me babbling... Nice job on the blog Ken!