Affiliate Marketing - Should You Include AdSense on Your Page?

The debate continues -

When you set up an affiliate website, is it alright to also include AdSense ads on the page along with your affiliate banners or links? There are basically two schools of thought on this:

No! They're distracting! -

Some marketers believe that you should only have one thing on the page for your visitors to click on - whatever it is you're trying to sell. And all signs should point directly to that button or banner. Anything else they consider a distraction.

Certainly you wouldn't want to put AdSense on a squeeze page or a sales page. And why not? Because it might distract your customer from your call to action. Therefore, if it's distracting on the sales page, it's also distracting on the home page or in the post or article.

Yes! You're in the business to make money! -

Other marketers believe you should include AdSense ads. Then, if your customer isn't interested in whatever it is you're selling, they might at least leave your page via one of the AdSense ads and you'll make money off of the click.

However, if your readers are leaving your site via your AdSense ads, wouldn't that tell you that there's something wrong with the content on your site? If you tweaked your content and got rid of the distracting ads, would your customers then be more apt to turn into buyers?

Yes! But make them blend in! -

There are other marketers who say you should put AdSense on your site but make sure the colors blend so the links look like part of your site. The reader will see the various links and think it's just more of your blog, clicking on them to see what other information you have to offer. Yes, you'll earn money from the click, but how much more would you have earned if they had clicked on YOUR sales page instead of that other one?

Basically, the choice is yours.

There are so many variables to consider - What are you selling? How difficult is it to sell? Is your content good enough to sell it? Is your site properly SEOd? Are you doing the right kind of promotion to attract the right kind of traffic?

As in most methods of internet marketing, what works today may not work tomorrow. And what works for HIM might not work for you. Set up your site however you feel best and then track your statistics on each individual site to see what works best.

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