Google Adsense Explained
Joining Google Adsense is the easiest way to make money online. Is it? No doubt, Google pays you when visitors to your site click on an Adsense ad. But do people really click on Adsense ads. For each 100 visitors, you may not get more than 20-30 clicks.
Moreover, the earnings per click will be like a few cents. In order to make a few thousand dollars each month using Google Adsense, you need to develop a lot of traffic to your site. Most of that traffic will get wasted.
Here lies the trick. You need a lot of traffic to succeed with Google Adsense. Building traffic is not an easy game. In my opinion, traffic is the most important thing a new comer to the world of internet marketing should learn.
Not enough traffic? Many people will tell you in order to make money with Adsense you need to focus on niches where payout is good. These are niches like Credit Repair, Mortgage and Student Loans where people like to pay up to $10-20 per click on Google Adwords.
But wait, advertisers are paying this much money for a click on the Adwords Search Network. Most will only pay $2-5 while advertising on Google Content Network. Adsense is the content network.
Many advertisers understand that traffic on the content network is not targeted, so they pay less on the content network. Google keeps a good percentage of it as its commission before it pays you. Google never discloses how much its percentage is.
So how much you get? You only get between $ 0.5-1 for each click. Most of these niches are highly competitive. You wont be able to get good traffic. So you wont get many clicks on Adsense Ads.
So why would you want to waste traffic with Adsense when you can get a much higher payout by displaying affiliate products using affiliate programs like Clickbank, Commission Junction etc?
Have you ever heard of CPA Marketing? You can make a lot of money with CPA Marketing. CPA companies can pay you $2-5 for getting a form with two to three fields filled online. For getting a zip code submitted, these networks pay you as high as $2.
While promoting Adsense, always keep this in mind that Google can all of a sudden terminate your Adsense account for no apparent reason.
