I’ve made some money with Adsense and some money with affiliate marketing but I’ve started refocusiong recently. Now I’ll have different blogs for each topic. I’ll be writing the same amount of posts, but now each one will go to the corresponding topical blog.

Some of these blogs will be better suited for Adsense and others for affiliate links.

Andy, your article is right on the point, thanks for sharing. I hope to come back in some months and let you know my results.

The problem is compounded with time.

For instance, this week I got an email from Apple telling me that some of my Apple links through Linkshare will expire and not be valid anymore.

Problem?

Yes, because I have those links scattered through multiple blogs in multiple entries. Apple tells me that – instead of just redirecting the links to Apple Store homepage – these links will be inactive and I WON’T GET CREDIT FOR ANYONE WHO CLICKS THROUGH AND BUYS.

After all that work, it is quite disheartening when they make it so difficult.

So do I just make all product links go to the homepage of Apple Store instead of individual products? That way – after some time – if a link goes inactive, I will AT LEAST get tracked for sales on clickthrus?

As an aside, I plan on removing most – if not all – Adsense from several of my blogs and focusing on affiliate marketing again.

So any tools to make this job easier are definitely something I am interested in.

Thanks,

DM

My blog is in a competitive field (old world websites as opposed to blogs) and when keying into Google certain search terms I am both amazed and angry at some of the results showing up as sponsored links. Results that sometimes have a vague relevance to my search terms.

My problem is, I don’t want these ads served on my blog as they will offer no value to my readers (assuming they pay any attention to them in the first place)

The blog I’m planning to launch has a long term goal to deliver a premium web application, which is where the main monetization will hopefully be derived from. Adsense is not part of my biz plan. I do intend to dabble with it as an experiment but I sure as shit won’t be relying on it as a main source of revenue – that would be very dangerous. I worry about click attacks. I worry about being penalised in some way that is beyond my control.

For any serious business relying on income from ad revenue needs to be in total control of their inventory and I don’t see Adsense allowing that control.

Right now I’m looking at Adbrite, as it offers better control although perhaps not as effective as Adsense, for obvious reasons.

I also have plans for affiliate income but again, i’m not relying on it. Contextual ads and affiliate schemes are just 2 of many income streams I’m planning and neither of them are important measures of my blog’s success. The delivery and effectiveness of my blog’s application is my paramount concern here.