Comments on: Abandon Adsense … Everything you need to know to run your own credit card affiliate site

By: Creditos urgentes

Creditos urgentes — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:51:02 +0000

this is a great alternative, but for the Spanish market is not possible becuase i have no more than 10 CC affilets programms.

Best Regards

By: Work from Home Guru

Work from Home Guru — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:59:12 +0000

I agree to an extent. I don’t think you should rely solely on Adsense, but I would never consider dropping it completely, not yet anyway. There are a lot of people that make very good money through the Adsense program, with traditional content type sites. However, you can make very good money promoting affiliate products if you do it right. So I would say use both, have several sites and increase your earnings ten fold.

By: Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com

Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:50:06 +0000

Ultimately credit cards are neither good nor evil, they are just a tool. But many of the credit card offers here in the US are designed to disadvantage the borrower and take those who have demonstrated over time they cannot deal effectively with debt and put them in further debt.

If I set up a CC site and act as a lead generator for companies whose business model is designed to take advantage of others then I am no different.

It is possible you don’t do business with companies like that Rich, but many do.

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:34:26 +0000

Nick, credit, debts and payment methods are three different issues to deal with. That the USA have such big problems with CC debts is an internal subject. That doesn’t discredit the credit and the payment method. (I’m German and we don’t have those CC problems because CCs are bound to an existing bank account)

By: NEM

NEM — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:40:43 +0000

humh…I don’t have a credit card afflite site.

By: Nick Cernis

Nick Cernis — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:08:13 +0000

I agree with your comments around AdSense — my brief foray with it has been pretty disappointing compared with my affiliate experiments.

Sorry to sound negative, but I feel I must express my distaste at the notion of making money through credit card affiliate sites. Credit cards are a necessary evil, but I’ve seen many friends and family members get into trouble and go through hell to repay serious amounts of CC debt. The idea of making money off of someone else’s bad debt seems somewhat immoral to me. I think Amazon and eBay affiliate setups are probably a better way to go?

By: Barbara Ling

Barbara Ling — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:18:25 +0000

I completely agree about not depending upon Google Adsense/Adwords; for all intensive purposes, I abandoned them years ago in favor of dynamic affiliate programs like eBay and Amazon.com. They allow you to monetize virtually any type of site with targeted products and offerings.

Data points,

Barbara Ling