5 Comments on “What do you think ? Adsense or other ways to make money ?”

1. theosharatos
   January 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am

   If you haven’t found one that peaks your interest, I would personally keep looking. It took me years to finally settle down with the right company. Jennifer

2. Andrew Walker
   February 1st, 2008 at 8:30 pm

   Try this site: it can make you good money and it is easy to do. There are no fees and it pays out every Friday. It is also listed in the top 10 on the work at home watchdog website: which ranks the sites based on people’s votes who have actually used the sites.

3. Paul Ding
   February 4th, 2008 at 3:02 am

   The problem with Adsense is that competitors of yours can engage in click fraud. You think you’re making a lot of money, when all of a sudden Google realizes that a lot of those clicks are coming from the same IPs, and they cancel you. It doesn’t matter that you’re innocent. They don’t care. The fact that you *attract* fraudulent clicks is sufficient to want to eliminate you from their network.

   Some of the other networks are as good as Google. Some of them are outright crooks. There are none that form a sound basis for a business.

   Affiliate programs work in a similar manner, except that most companies are trying to get free advertising. That is, they want you to use banners that boost sales *without* anyone clicking on them. Think of all the signs you see for Coke and Pepsi. Have you ever seen one and rushed to a grocery store to buy a case of pop of that particular brand?

   What’s more, everybody and his brother are trying to get rich on advertising, because it seems simple. In such a market, it makes more sense to be *buying*, rather than *selling* advertising.

   You need a product that ships well, for which there is a market, that you have an exclusive on. Best-selling books ship well, and there is definitely a market, but you can’t compete with Amazon and expect to make much money; they have economy of scale.

   The answer is “the long tail”. You can’t build a superstore offering 1000 varieties of Russian teas in downtown Dayton, Ohio, and expect to sell enough tea to the walk-in traffic to cover your rent and other overhead. You couldn’t even build an extra room onto a busy Starbucks and expect to sell enough to the existing traffic to cover your overhead.

   But online, you’re not limited to a few people who walk past your storefront, and your overhead is minimal. Open an online specialty shop for a niche product, design the site well, and you can do well. Don’t believe me? Do a search for “Russian teas superstore” and you’ll see that there’s virtually no competition at all.

   Once you have built a great site with great selection, start writing a blog about Russian teas. That will keep your site fresh and new, establish you as an expert, and let people think of you as a friend in the business. They’ll mention you in their blogs, which will rapidly boost your rank in the search engines.

   It’s not easy to establish yourself as THE site for a given niche – but once you do it, it’s much, much harder for someone else to compete for the same niche.

   It’s hard to establish multiple niches at once – but once a niche is established, it takes relatively little effort to sustain it. If you start one niche every six months, in five years you will have ten sites. The new sites, and the ones in poor niches will be generating $200 each in monthly profits. A well-established site in a great niche can give you $2000 monthly in profits. Ten sites can give you an incredible income.

   And it’s yours, unlike a business providing traffic to Google, where Google can cancel you at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all.

   I’ve written a number of blog entries that may be useful to you, as you figure out what you want to do. Check them out at the link below:

4. Angela
   February 5th, 2008 at 9:21 am

   Hello,
   Paul gave you a good answer, if you were able to understand what he meant.

   I don’t know if you are referring to adsense in regard to you buying adsense ads to try and generate affiliate income, or selling adsense by having Google adsense on your particular site.

   I have a website about chocolate candy (that is my niche). It doesn’t cost me anything to allow Google to place ads on my site related to chocolate candy, and if visitors click on them, I will get a portion of the advertisers fee. Like Paul said, though, Google can cancel you without warning. Fortunately, there are several other similar type programs that I could replace Google with if necessary.

   On top of that, I also have affiliate links in my site where I recommend my visitors to certain chocolate candy sellers that offer the particular products they are looking for. When a visitor goes from my site to theirs and makes a purchase, I get a commission from the sale.

   There are other ways to make money from a site, too. You can sell actual products (like the Russian tea mentioned above), or you could sell a service or an ebook, etc. The more different types of options you have available, the less you will have to worry about one of them dropping you.

   Think about what you really enjoy, or a favorite hobby or interest. Consider building a website about that. You could narrow it down to a niche that you could do well in.

   I focused on building my candy website, and now that it is moving along nicely, I am working on building another niche site. I think this is one of the best ways to go.

   You can look in my profile for a peak at my site and more info. on how I got started doing this with no experience in website building at all. I’m still amazed by it. 🙂

   All the best.

5. Peter
   February 5th, 2008 at 11:16 am

   Adsense is difficult to make money with. Your site has to have a LOT of traffic to even generate some profit. And I don’t know about you, but if I had a scam site taking advantage of somewhat desperate people in order to make money, I don’t know how I could look in the mirror or sleep at night no matter how much money I make.

   I suggest this instead. I recently joined a company last week that may be able to help you earn a little extra income.

   Once you join, your membership includes your own online mall to purchase whatever you want or need. Your purchases on your online mall give you rebates back on all your purchases, which may help cut some expenses. And, if you share this opportunity with at least 5 to 10 people, who in turn do the same, it may slowly begin to become an additional source of income.

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   I wish you the best of luck in all your business ventures.

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