AdSense Referral Work

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Do AdSense Referrals Work?

Today’s reader question is - ‘I would like to know your views on Google referral ads. Do you make money out of them, or is it something to run away from?’ - submitted by gabo_uy.

Google AdSense Referrals are the CPA ads (cost per action) from the popular AdSense service. At the time of writing this they have four products for their publishers to choose from (AdSense itself, AdWords, Google Pack and Firefox plus Google Toolbar). Putting it most simply - if a reader makes that you send to one of these services does a certain thing (they are different in each case) you then get paid a certain amount.

For example if I refer someone to the Firefox plus Google Toolbar and they actually download and use it I get paid $1. If someone someone downloads and installs the Google Pack I get $2. If someone signs up for AdWords and spends $5 within 90 days as an advertiser I get $5 etc (full details of what you can earn for different conversions here).

So onto gabo_uy’s question - do I make money from the Google referral program?

There’s a short answer and a long one.

The short answer
Yes I make money from the Google AdSense Referral Program.

The long answer
I’ve had very mixed success with AdSense Referrals.

I’ve attempted to promote all four of their products (in fact there used to be a fifth - the Picassa photosharing service) and the only two that I’ve had returns on that have amounted to anything are the AdSense and AdWords programs.

I’m not sure I can give specific details of my conversions on the referrals program - but let me make these observations on my own earnings:

• Earnings have Improved this month - I’ve been using them since they began the program in November 2005. In that time I’ve earned earned a bit over $2900 from the program (almost completely from the AdWords and AdSense products). However a around half of what I’ve earned has been earned in the 2 months since they changed their payout system to reward publishers at lower conversion levels
• The conversion rates are very low in my experience. Despite having a site that is fairly closely related to AdSense (and a lesser extent AdWords) the percentages of those clicking on the referral links/buttons is incredibly low. The percentage of those who click that actually convert to the thresholds that AdSense require is even lower (although the 1 Feb changes will help this).

So my overall reflections on the Google AdSense Referral program are mixed. There has definitely been some improvement of late with it due to both the changes AdSense made but also as a result of a few changes in the way I use it.

Tomorrow I want to write a second post on Google AdSense Referrals - this time asking ‘how can you make them perform better?’ In this post I’ll share some of the changes I’ve made over the last couple of months that have helped improve my earnings from them.

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Choosing affiliate programs that make you lots of $$$$.

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article

Certain affiliate programs have a very high
profit potential. Others have about a snowball's chance in... well, don't
have much chance of making an income at
all.

So how do you choose? It depends upon
the content of your site. It doesn't work to promote dog medicine to
people if your site is about trips to Jamaica. While you
might be able to relate the two, your site visitor probably will not
relate their trip to Jamaica with getting cheap medicine for their dog. And
when it comes to affiliate marketing, it's not about you.
It's about your visitor. Affiliate income is about you, but
you only earn the income by doing the marketing.

There are affiliate programs on just about
anything, but only some programs are highly profitable. If you are working
with a very profitable affiliate program, then you can actually build your
entire site around the affiliate program itself.

So, which affiliate programs make the
most money?

If you have a high traffic site (100,000 visitors per month), then you
can make money with any affiliate program as long as it is related to the
content of your site. However if you have a low traffic site, you need to
be more selective to make money. Look for the following characteristics of
a good affiliate program:

1. Lifetime commissions. Certain
affiliate programs give you commissions on every product that is sold to
the customer, forever. A great example of this is

SpeedyPin. One of the designers
of this site earns residual commissions from people purchasing calling
cards, and these people signed up months ago through

SpeedyPin.

2. Affiliate programs that have high
profit for each sale will help you grow more quickly. However,
simple logic will tell you that $2 is better than $0. It's better to
make a profit of $30 per sale than $2 per sale, but if you stick and stay,
you can get your pay. What this means is that patience and
persistence are huge when it comes to affiliate marketing.

3. The product needs to be of great
quality - something that you can actually vouch for. Why sell
something that is poor in quality?

4. Information products can be the
best type of affiliate products because they do have high profits. Many
people will give you 50% commissions or more for selling their information
product. Why? It costs virtually nothing to reproduce an
information product. Stamping a CD costs 25 cents, or emailng the
information costs less. If it's a good product, it can be resold for
$9.95 (or more), and because the product designer doesn't have to market
it, they will pay generously for your efforts.

To get a real idea of what are the best
affiliate programs, you need to have a look at what affiliates are earning.
Find out more information about

what top affiliates are earning.

You can also have a look at the affiliate
networks which put together a whole lot of affiliates with merchants.

The main affiliate networks are listed many
places throughout the internet, and on affiliateadvice's

affiliate program directories page.
Check these directories out for a high quality selection of products in a wide variety of
areas.

If you REALLY want to know what the highest
commission products are, here are a few examples. But please remember that
these areas are highly competitive, and it is hard to get search engine
traffic for them

Information products - online newsletters
and ebooks.

Credit Cards.

Online Gambling, sportsbooks etc.

Mortgages/loan companies

Software products

Web Hosting (very competitive area)

Office Supplies (such as inkjet cartridges)

This is not a definitive list. There are
plenty of other products as well. These, however, are all very high profit
areas.

This article was reprinted
from
affiliateadvice.us, where you can
find

great affiliate programs and ways to generate online
income.

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