So, you’re one of those people that makes money online with a blog, right? You’re informing the world on how to build a better blog, get more readers, and earn more money. So what is all that adsense crap doing on your blog!
Here’s one of those things that I don’t understand (anymore). Obviously bloggers that blog about blogging for money are in it for the money (That sentence should get the SEO keyword tactics out of the way for the rest of this post). All they write about day in – day out, is about optimizing a blog to generate income. They like to diversify income streams, by adding several advertising networks on their site.
So this is the part where I get confused. I totally get it, you’re in it for the money, and you will go to extremes to earn some. But by having so many cheap exit-points (an average Adsense click doesn’t do more than 5 cents these days I believe) on your site, you are significantly decreasing the odds of your visitors clicking on the big prize for you. If I were you guys, and I wanted to make money with my blog, I would make sure that I was promoting just one major affiliate product, and perhaps do secondary product promotions in single posts every now and again.
Research (and common sense) shows that there are three ways a visitor will leave your site.
1. They close their browser.
2. They use the backbutton.
3. They click on a link on your site.
Now wouldn’t you rather have one third of all your visitors click on an affiliate link, where the average payout will be over five-hundered times higher then that Adsense or Adbrite click?
It all started with a leak
I suggest that you have a long, hard look at your blog, and get rid of all the ads that are essentially leaking money from your site.
