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elbavaro
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Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2003 3:19 pm
Post subject: Anybody tried AdSense ONLY ?
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Has one of you on your website(s) ever tried to work with AdSense ONLY?
I mean without any affiliate link or other sources to generate revenue. Only displaying AdSense.
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Frank Nordberg
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:39 am
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I have one small (about 100 page visits a day) site with only AdSense ads at the moment.
Can't say anything about the results since you can't get site specific stats from Google.
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 5:45 pm
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I don't understand what you might be asking for. The two types of revenue come from different places, so you can easily tell which is getting more.
My site with 1500+ visitors/day earns a lot from adsense and a little from amazon and zero from the other affiliate links. (lot: started near $600/month and this month looks like it will be $360; little: $40/month)
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 6:07 pm
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| reikiman, elbavaro is asking if anyone has any websites where the only ads displayed are from AdSense. Frank's response referred to just one of his sites (he has more than one). Since Google does not break out stats by domain, there is no way to know how many revenue is being generated per site when more than one site is used to display AdSense from one AdSense account. |
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Charlie
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 9:56 am
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| Guest wrote: | | Since Google does not break out stats by domain, there is no way to know how many revenue is being generated per site when more than one site is used to display AdSense from one AdSense account. |
Thankfully, it looks as though Google are now working on tracking, and in the meantime they're saying you can now apply for separate accounts for each domain. (According to Audri Lanford's Adsense course.)
Not perfect, but much better late than never.
Cheers,
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elbavaro
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 7:48 pm
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Thanks to all, for the responses.
To clear up what I was asking for:
You can have 3 different scenarios using/not using ADSENSE:
1. "Traditional" Affiliate Website without Adsense ads (relying on affiliate links only).
2. Mixed Website (Affiliate Links and Adsense displayed at the same time)
3. Adsense ONLY Website (only Adsense Ads are displayed - Adsense is the only revenue)
My question was whether or not its worth to "get rid of all" affiliate links - and only go with a "Adsense ONLY Website".
Perhaps somebody else has tried such an approach.
Maybe Allan or his team tried it?
Would be great to get your opinions. Thanks in advance. 
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 3:36 am
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| elbavaro wrote: | | My question was whether or not its worth to "get rid of all" affiliate links - and only go with a "Adsense ONLY Website". |
I see several advantages in this approach - as long as you have done a good job of identifying keywords that are in high demand both by searchers and advertisers willing to pay high prices for those keywords on AdWords.
1. It should be easier to get into DOMZ.org , which will help your rankings in Google.
2. If you build a genuinely useful, interesting site without affiliate links, it should be much easier to persuade other sites to link to you, thus helping your rankings in search engines, and give you traffic directly from those links.
3. You can create simple, uncluttered pages, free of sales talk, making the AdSense ads stand out prominently, increasing the percentage of visitors who click on the ads.
4. If search engines are tending to penalize affiliate sites, which seems inevitable as the search results become cluttered, your AdSense-only site won't be penalized.
5. You can concentrate on creating excellent content, without worrying about selling or pre-selling.
| Quote: | | Maybe Allan or his team tried it? |
I have a new assistant creating a very large, information-rich, keyword-rich site using high-priced keywords. It involves a lot of research and writing and she aims to make it as professional as possible.
Our aim is to generate mainly AdSense income.
We'll also have a two or three affiliate links at the bottom of each article, so that they can be easily removed if we wish to experiment doing that.
This is a HUGE challenge, the toughest we've ever tried. We're aiming at words with massive demand and extremely valuable keywords, in an extremely competitive field - definitely not the place for the faint-hearted to spend time and effort on. I'm not expecting instant good results - just long-term brilliant ones, maybe 
We'll need a lot of good links to the site. It's hard to predict how successful we'll be at getting them.
It would be much safer to look for a less competitive niche.
So far, the site is looking good but we haven't started getting links to it yet. We're taking our time and want to make it as good as we possibly can before we do that.
The person building the site has excellent writing and research skills but no knowledge whatsoever of HTML and is working from her own home, so she's using Site Build It, just following the Action Guide. SBI is a great tutor for this sort of work.
Allan Gardyne - AssociatePrograms.com
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Bobby
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 4:36 am
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| reikiman wrote: | | My site with 1500+ visitors/day earns a lot from adsense and a little from amazon and zero from the other affiliate links. (lot: started near $600/month and this month looks like it will be $360; little: $40/month) |
Just as FYI - the AdSense terms prohibit discussions of results.
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Charlie
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2003 2:37 pm
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| AllanGardyne wrote: | | If search engines are tending to penalize affiliate sites, which seems inevitable as the search results become cluttered, your AdSense-only site won't be penalized. |
I wonder if this will prove to be the case over time...
I can certainly believe Google won't mind (in fact they could conceivably add bonus points to get you to the top and share your success), but how about the other SEs?
If Inktomi or MS grow strong they might not want Google ads on their top-ranked sites, and could penalise accordingly.
Just a thought,
Charlie.
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