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How to Go from AdSense to Affiliate Marketing and Generate (Lots More) Passive Income

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean

 

AdSense to Affiliate ProgramsWhat IF Google bans your AdSense site… what if your site starts to drop SERP ranks… what if something out of the blue happens to your revenue, do you have a plan B?

Will Smith says that “You don’t need to have a plan B as it distracts your attention from focusing on the first plan.”

I’d say you need to diversify your income and look to generate multiple streams of passive revenue.

I have nothing against AdSense. I love it. I’ve made a bunch of money with Google. I still does nowadays. You can have a bunch of AdSense sites making you money. What I’m trying to say though is simple – Affiliate marketing can take your income next level, regardless if you have one AdSense site or 100’s.

Please don’t get me wrong. This is not meant to be an AdSense alternative type of article or Affiliate marketing vs. Google AdSense post.

I won’t talk about how bad AdSense is, and how great affiliate programs are. Both options are great. However, with affiliate marketing you have a greater advantage.

AdSense to Affiliate Marketing – 6 Key Reasons

This does not require you cease AdSense, in fact, you can still have your ads embedded within content, and at the same time, profit massively from affiliate programs.

What I’d do is against the norm of what most bloggers do to make their money -

1. Have one AdSense ad appears at the bottom of your post or in the footer of your site.

2. Feature another AdSense ad (250×250, or whatever fits your sidebar) below your best content (or top posts) – you want to share information first, ads second. Google loves that!

This requires you reconsider your AdSense placement. The key is to focus on affiliate programs first, and Google’s contextual ad serving program in the back-end. If done right, the bulk of your income will come from affiliate programs.

Within a few short weeks or months, you could easily surpass your AdSense revenue.

3. Create written affiliate product reviews (YouTube clips, etc) and post them on your site.

See what people buy online. Publish one review a week. Make it hot. Focus on money keywords (discount, review, buy, etc). Next year by this time, you’ll have 52 product reviews, most of them generating for you a nice passive income stream.

Consider one review could be making you $10 a month; within a year, you could start to pull-in $520 in monthly passive money. This is just an example, not a guarantee though.

4.  Build a squeeze page (to get your visitors email address)

98% of first time web site visitors usually won’t come back a second time, unless you give them a good reason to. The solution – bribe them to join your mailing list. Offer a PDF report or video clip, which is highly relevant and exclusive for your audience. That’s the law of reciprocity in action.

Here are 13 of the best squeeze pages on the web to get some inspiration.

Now, let’s talk about the reasons I promised to be sharing with you…

Reason #1 Building assets

You have visitors onto your mailing list. Your list will grow overtime. Within a year, you could be building 100’s and 1,000’s of subscribers eager to read your content, and buy from you.

Reason #2 Increasing page views

With a mailing list, you have the advantage of sending people back and forth your site, getting them to check similar articles, see more ads, and click on more links.

Reason #3 Increasing commissions

One day you send people to an article on how to research keywords and pre-sell a tool you’re using. The next week, you mail people about writing great articles, and recommend another tool. That’s how you boot your affiliate revenue over time. Money will start adding to your bank account, and you’ll be profiting from the same subscribers over and over again.

Reason #4 Increasing subscribers

Share amazing content with your audience – stuff they cannot live without – information and insights they can only get from you — and your mailing list will enlarge. More subscribers add more revenue.

Reason #5 Increasing traffic

Amazing content gets viral online. With more traffic, you get more subscribers, which leads to more passive income. It’s all a marketing funnel that goes into circle – benefiting you, your visitors and your subscribers at the same time.

Reason #6 Increasing posts

With AdSense, there’s a very limited number of content ideas you could be talking about, without boring your readers. With affiliate programs, you have an unlimited number of potential products to review, and talk about. Sticking with AdSense alone is a limit to your money revenue.

Remember: If out of the blue, your web site revenue or AdSense income suffers, go with plan B.

Now it’s your turn to share insights from your AdSense and affiliate marketing experience. Or, feel free to send me any questions you might have about the subject, and I’ll try to give relevant answers to help take your income next level.

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  1. Rupali says:
    February 23, 2013 at 3:00 PM

    Hi John,
    Thnx for sharing such a detailed and usefull information for bloggers.
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  2. Ravi kumar says:
    February 23, 2013 at 5:41 PM

    Yeah, good to understand about various affiliate marketing rather than adsense. We already have adsense account but if we are having more than one affiliate, we can start integrating the same in our website content.

    I used to write product reviews of amazon, avangate etc and integrate our affiliate, suppose you write more content targeting the particular customers then only you can earn more than $10 in a month from that article only.

    Good Articles on affiliate marketing. Thanks John Gibb

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  3. John Gibb says:
    February 24, 2013 at 2:33 AM

    hi Rupali and Ravi

    I’m glad you found the article helpful.

    If you have any questions, or need further clarification, I am here…

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  4. Article Intel says:
    February 24, 2013 at 7:32 AM

    I have been doing affiliate marketing from past 1 year and I have one amazon product review site as well. Thanks for the tip what to target on post. Your post is very informative and helpful with step by step guidence. I have bookmarked it and will follow it now on.

    Thanks :)
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  5. Sarah Park says:
    February 24, 2013 at 12:14 PM

    Very detailed ideas here. This surely is very helpful.
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  6. anil bhogia says:
    February 25, 2013 at 12:17 PM

    I have nothing against AdSense. I love it. I’ve made a bunch of money with Google. I still does nowadays. You can have a bunch of AdSense sites making you money.
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  7. SAJID says:
    February 25, 2013 at 1:21 PM

    Hi, John, Thanks for this great post. Indeed it is one of the most valuable post i have seen on moneyCTL. Actually i myself am currently relying on Google Adsense alone. It is a great idea to post reviews and get sales.
    A worthful advice indeed.:p
    Thanking You again John.
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    • John Gibb says:
      February 27, 2013 at 4:17 PM

      SAJID,

      I’m glad you found the article helpful and for the nice words

      Could you reveal to us your Adsense money-making strategy particularly since nowadays Google is banning link building networks and index high quality content sites?

      Also, do you have any plans to integrate affiliate programs with Adsense onto your content sites?
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  8. Ashish says:
    March 3, 2013 at 6:32 AM

    Thanx sir…for sharing this info. Me too thinking to try for affiliate marketing as it has lots of scope and also a passive income source….

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  9. Lulu Smith says:
    March 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM

    Hi John, Several years ago when Google cracked down on the adsense and adwords accounts I stopped using adsense for the most part. I did not want my accounts deleted. I still have adsense linked to my blogger and hubpages accounts but that is about it. I took note of where you say to place the ads and am going to try it with one of my sites and see how it goes. Thanks for the info.

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  10. Akash Sharma says:
    March 6, 2013 at 8:07 AM

    Hey John Very nice and informative post about Adsense. I was too worried if i ever got an adsense account and then gets banned from that. So You dont know how much you made me relieved.
    Thanks Buddy.
    My Site is AutoTechSnapper.com Do visit it and also give me some tips and tricks…. :)

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  11. John Gibb says:
    March 18, 2013 at 1:27 AM

    dear Akash, and Lulu

    if you abide by Google’s guidelines and play the game fair, then there’s little chance to have your account banned, or suspended…
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  12. Ketan Patel says:
    April 22, 2013 at 2:59 PM

    Hey John
    ” AdSense to Affiliate Marketing – 6 Key Reasons ”
    Very nice and informative post. This is very helpful for those who had google adsense in past and rightnow banned for any reason.On behalf of all of them..

    Thanks Buddy… :)
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