Tips For Google AdSense Affiliate Marketing

by Alan Johnson | 28th November 2009

Your SEO and PPC efforts and the traffic that they generate can easily be channeled into great profits through the smart use of affiliate marketing. Essentially, you allow Google to place advertisements on your website using their AdSense service, and you will earn a commission for every person who click on these ads. While you won't earn huge amounts of money at once, the dollars and cents can add up, dependent upon the price of every click you transmit. Here's the jist of it all : you'll generate a profit form these clicks as long as you're spending less money to get them than the rewards that you receive.

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 lets say you find some inexpensive long-tail keyword search terms like DUI Attorney Pasadena, CA. And since you'll bid for a lower position (say at .25 per click), you hope to get the lower-cost clicks to get people to your site.

You also need to make sure that your site offers things relating to this click, like articles on DUI or traffic laws in Pasadena or anything of this nature, which will not only make people come to your site but be willing to click on the Adsense ad you are running, from which you are making $1 per click. You have to agree that this doesn't sound like that bad of a deal; however, if nobody is clicking on your ads, then you are going to be losing the money you have invested -- this really is a risky business. Not everyone has what it takes to make money through buying low cost clicks and then running them on their own websites. You are going to have to be willing to invest not only money, but the time and effort necessary to figure out exactly what is going to work the best to make a profit.

If you can't afford the money or time that this process requires, you can concentrate your efforts on long-tail keywords. By optimizing your website correctly, you can generate an organic boost by going after keywords that are less sought after. With this method, your CTR is irrelevant, and you won't spent lots of money trying to find the right formula. Time is all that you need to invest to make this work. And once you've invested your time, it definitely won't cost you cash, whether it fails of ultimately succeeds.

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