ShoeMoney Talks: Adsense vs Affiliate Marketing
December 29, 2007 · Print Post · Bookmark post
Jeremy from Shoemoney.com was featured at BlogWorld Expo and has opinions on how Adsense sucks and speaks about affiliate marketing. If you are talking about a product might as well check to see if they have an affiliate program to join. The reason for this is because if you are talking about a product why not use their affiliate program or special links.
Now I have received some ‘hate mail’ or even negative comments on why am I using an affiliate link if I am talking bad or writing a negative post on a product or service. Well, the reason for this is because what I just stated above. If I am writing about it why not use their affiliate link to earn some potential income.
There are mixed feelings on this and opinions on this matter, but if I talk about it and there is room for income I will use the affiliate link. I personally never know if the post will be a big hit and earn me some money or it might be a flop, I just do not know. So to just prepare the 50 percent chance I will use an affiliate link even if I bash out a product I do not like.
Jeremy goes into good details about affiliate marketing and his honest opinion on why bloggers shouldn’t use Adsense, especially if they write for content.
January 1st, 2008 7:55 pm
I wouldn’t pay attention to any hatemail pertaining to your usage of affiliate links in negative reviews. You always have those people that buy things no matter what you tell them. If I remember correctly, just last month John Chow got one hundered signups to his Agloco network after announcing its fallout. Not bad considering John informed his readers that Agloco wouldn’t pay them.