Today I want to talk to you about exploring other areas of revenue for your websites. In an earlier post I talked about the Google BAN and how Google are cracking down on sites that are MFA (Made For Adsense). In that post I gave you a few ideas on how to add extra dimensions to your websites without reducing your CTR% (ClickThrough Rate).

Well 1 comment from avenuegirl  inspired me to go into a little more detail about this. First of all, if Google DO suspend your account then she is quite right. 1st – You are NOT alone. 2nd – YES there are plenty of other ways to monetise your websites and indeed entirely different ways of making money online.

I have already shown you some “quick-fix” ways you can avoid this (see original Adsense Banned post) but now I want to show you how you can actually increase revenue by around 30% by adding other offers to your site. For those of you that have seen the salespage to (shameless plug) Adsense Fortress, you’ll know that I actually increased my revenue by around 30% with this technique.

How? – I simply added a couple of relevant offers to my website with my embedded affiliate link.

When I say relevant, I mean really relevant and that’s the key to making this work.

This can take a little time and effort, especially if you have a large number of sites, but it is worth it. You need to make sure that your offer is precisely targetted to the keyword(s) that visitors are using to find you website. Go to your CPanel, check your stats and find out just how visitors are finding you.

This way you’ll know exactly what their looking for and you can hit them with an offer to match. This is what makes it irrisistable. If you can’t find an offer that matches, then either you are very unlucky or you didn’t do your niche research carefully enough. 

So just where do you find these affiliate offers?

Well there are countless places and a quick google search will uncover many of them. But be careful. Make sure you check out what other affiliates have to say before you dive in. Some may not track your stats properly meaning you won’t always be credited for a sale when you should. Some are simply rogue and won’t pay at all.

Here’s a few that are known to be reputable and aren’t too difficult to join.

• ClickBank– Biggest network and highest payout for digital/downloadable products.
• affiliatescout – Full searchable directory of affiliate programs for just about any niche.
• Affiliatebot – all types of physical products and services.
• Hydra network – high performing and popular affiliate program.
• CPArev – has top advertisers on board including household names such as blockbuster videos.
• Maxbounty – This programs pays on performance (leads).
• Commision Junction – Big in the IM community, well respected – big choice of programs.
• Linkshare – Lot’s of big names on board including McAfee, Itunes, At&T to name but a few.

By signing up with some of the above you can virtually guarantee that you’ll be able to find an offer that matches your content and keywords completely. So this is a win-win situation. You can help satisfy any human reviewer on Google that you site is legit, it offers diversity to the reader, but you can also increase your revenue at the same time.

Just remember to do this for each page on your site. Yes it’s time-consuming, Yes it may even be a little boring, but It’s well worth doing if you do it right.

Later on i’ll we’ll be looking at entirely different ways to earn money online including setting up sites that are targetted towards affiliate offers like the ones above. We’ll also be looking at how leverage your Adsense sites to build a list of potential buyers.

I love Adsense as most of you know, but if your serious about the whole online thing then it’s VERY important to make sure you get out of your comfort zone and have multiple streams of income coming in. You never know when 1 might dry-up.

• What do you want to see covered?
• Do you have an Adsense or Affiliate marketing related question?
• Are there other techniques you’d like to see covered?

Let me know and I might just write the next post for you…