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The Rise and Fall of Affiliate
Programs
Affiliate programs were once a great source of online revenue, a savvy
webmaster with an eye for marketing could easily parley a site into a money
making machine with a little luck and effort. However, the evolution and
growth of the Internet has hampered the growth of fortune making affiliate
programs. Constant search engine algorithm changes, along with the search
engine's clear distaste for sites participating in affiliate programs; have
made it a little more difficult to earn a healthy affiliate revenue. An
influx in the use of software programs that terminate cookie tracking and
privacy programs that prevent webmasters from tracking referrers, have also
hindered the affiliate sales channel. While it is still possible to make
money through affiliate marketing, other alternatives ought to be
considered.
A Healthy Alternative or Supplement
Google's Adsense program allows approved websites to dynamically serve
Google's pay-per-click Adword results. This has become a popular alternative
and an effective revenue sharing program for webmasters. Google's spider
parses the adserving website and serves ads that relate to the website's
content. While the Google's Adsense program still has some issues, they are
making efforts to improve it.
The website maintenance related to Adsense is very easy and requires very
little effort. Webmasters need only to insert javascript into the webpage or
website template. The javascript calls the ad from Google and will ensure
that ads are served each time a visitor goes to the webpage. If the visitor
clicks one of the Adsense ads served to the website, the website owner is
credited for the referral.
The implementation, while simple, has its drawbacks. Google dictates the
format of the ads. Webmasters can select from a handful of preformatted text
boxes that lack creativity. A recent improvement allows webmasters to modify
the ad boxes to resemble the website's color scheme. Still, a far cry from
some of the creative ads webmasters are accustom to.
The example below reflects how the color scheme can be modified to match the
look of the website, but the ads physically don't fit well into the overall
website design.
sample modified to match sites color scheme:
http://www.hospital-software.com (scroll to the bottom)
Google determines the content of the ads that are shown/ Sometimes the ads
are poorly targeted, and of no interest to the website visitors.
sample of poorly targeted ads:
http://www.real-estate-supply.com
Adwords can be a great addition to a website, and when well matched to the
content the revenue stream from Google is consistent and effortless.
sample of effective Adsense program:
http://www.police-supplies.com (scroll to the bottom)
http://www.small-business-software.net (scroll to the bottom)
Not that the Google Adsense program is not without its problems.as the
reporting provided by Google is lacking. Google has not implemented any way
to track multiple sites that serve ads; they simply show the number of ads
served, the percentage of clicks received, and the revenue earned each day.
Google does not disclose the amount of the revenue they share, what
percentage of the revenue they earn and what someone can expect to receive
for each click. Webmasters with multiple sites will have difficulty
determining which websites are producing the money in the Adsense program.
With affiliate programs many webmasters implement a new browser launch with
each click off the site, Adsense removes the visitor from the website and
there is not currently an option to launch the visitor into another browser.
Early on Google implemented a filtering system that allowed webmasters to
prevent a specific domain's ads from being served on the website. Ad
blocking meant that webmasters could prevent their competitors ads from
being dynamically served on their website.
Overall, adwords are great supplements to websites where affiliate programs
are either not performing or when affiliate programs don't exist that target
the sites content.
Give it a Try
Implementing and maintaing Google Adsense program on a content site requires
very little effort and can often bring a steady stream of additional revenue
for webmasters. Consider supplementing content and see what happens. |
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