The $3000 per month Google Adsense Project...

[jordanmcclements]

I have started dabbling with affiliate marketing.. Looks like unless you have highly targetted traffic in a profitable niche and/or you resort to questionable tactics - PPA is extremely difficult compared to PPC..

Anyway - here is an update on my Adsense earnings for March 2008 - $797 - an improvement but still a BIG drop in eCPM compared to last September!

[janeth]

I have started dabbling with affiliate marketing.. Looks like unless you have highly targetted traffic in a profitable niche and/or you resort to questionable tactics - PPA is extremely difficult compared to PPC..

Anyway - here is an update on my Adsense earnings for March 2008 - $797 - an improvement but still a BIG drop in eCPM compared to last September!

What has been the highest amount made so far?

And have you looked into PPP?

[jordanmcclements]

I have not made ANYTHING with affiliate marketing yet.

The good thing about Adsense is you can paste your code on your page and provided you get enough traffic - you always make SOMETHING.

Last September I made over a thousand dollars compared to 797 in March, even though I only had approx 60% of the number of visitors in September compared to March (and I am even getting more page views per visitor now than I did then).

There have been quite a few threads about decrease in Adsense earnings for the majority of publishers recently...

There are many theories, but you can never know for sure as Big G keep you in the dark as much as possible...

[janeth]

I messed with the affiliate marketing for one day and made $40.00. I removed the site and have not had the time to get back into it as of yet but plan to try this week to start up again with it.

[jordanmcclements]

I signed up to NetAudioAds - which was supposed to be live in February 2008, but got the following message:-

"We are running about 100,000 ads a day, spread randomly across member sites
as we check out all of our reporting and financial processes.

We expect to be testing ad placements throughout the next two to three weeks
Thank you for your patience."

Still it has potential if you get loads of visitors as it seems you can use it in addition to Adsense.

It may annoy users somewhat, but for me that is not a big problem, as most users dont stick around long anyway after they have gotten whatever free image they were looking for!

[jordanmcclements]

Seems to be live now.

Have pasted the javascript into my site.

Will see how it goes...

[Martinscholes]

A potential problem with affiliate marketing is that there could be a risk of -maybe subconsciously- adjusting your site to accommodate the kind of people who would be interested in the affiliate offer/s that you have on your site.

One affiliate expert was giving advice which really meant that your site would just be an extension of his site. It sort of reminded me of those Sheep Live Fluke insects that take over the body of an ant turn it into a kind of ant robot and make it walk to the tip of a blade of grass so a passing sheep will eat it and then get into the Sheep's liver.

I can imagine another ant saying: "Well, gosh! It looked like Phil, but he cut me dead!"

And if you allowed the affiliate expert in question to help "monitarise" your website someone might say: "Well, it looks like his website at first but it's not the same any more!"

[janeth]

If I can make $100,00.00 per month I don't care whose website it looks like.

[SportsFan]

Do you think it would be worth the effort to do affiliate marketing for only $1 per sale? What if the item being sold was cheap (about $2) and sold quite well if promoted to the correct market?

[janeth]

Do you think it would be worth the effort to do affiliate marketing for only $1 per sale? What if the item being sold was cheap (about $2) and sold quite well if promoted to the correct market?

I just started doing some testing a couple days ago, as a matter of fact the site is not even finished yet and it is for a cheap item. I've already made $50.00 and like I said, I've not even started marketing the site yet.