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Alternative ideas to made for Adsense sites for SEO pro

by surfgatinho
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For the last 10 years I've been relying on Adsense for 90% of my income. I have a number of (quality) sites and pull in around 500k uniques pcm which earns me fairly good money.

However, always the pessimist, I can't see this model working forever and am looking to diversify.

So what would be the best alternatives for someone who can write, take photos and has proven SEO skills?

I've tried things like ClickBank and can't find a niche that I could work with.

One idea I'm quite interested in at the moment is building an Amazon affiliate site based around a topic that interests me.
Does this model still have potential? I used to do a lot of affiliate stuff 10 years back, but that died a death - then again it was pretty mainstream stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author AffiliateWaves
    I am not sure about your niche but you can try CPA networks ,some of them are paying good money and you can test with affiliate programs too .Using adsense + affilaite offers are good way to monetize websites .
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    • Profile picture of the author thedark
      I had the same problem about 5 years ago ( when adsense was still paying good money ). Had several websites, driving a lot of traffic, most direct on articles. The problem is that rich-content websites tend to do very bad on adsense. Visitors just learn how to ignore the ads. It worked better for tool websites, stuffing ads above, below, and on each side of the tool. However, I figured out that it is not a future proof model and started to find alternatives.

      For the tools websites, I just developed a premium version of the tool, leaving the basic with the same functionality as before. Revenue was 10x better than with adsense.

      For the content sites, which seems to be most of in your case, I started to add affiliate links in new posts. One every 3 posts were some product review or some general article with affiliate links inside. The affiliate links also made more money than adsense, but it was too time consuming to add links in all old articles. And slowly I moved my focus to the tools sites.

      Later, I was thinking at an idea to make the content websites to reach their full potential earnings from affiliate links, and I built a wordpress plugin that automatically adds affiliate links based on specific keywords. It is called Auto Affiliate Links and it is free on wordpress plugin directory. I still kept the focus on tool websites but I was able to make most of the old content websites too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tom Addams
    Originally Posted by surfgatinho View Post

    For the last 10 years I've been relying on Adsense for 90% of my income. I have a number of (quality) sites and pull in around 500k uniques pcm which earns me fairly good money.

    However, always the pessimist, I can't see this model working forever and am looking to diversify.

    So what would be the best alternatives for someone who can write, take photos and has proven SEO skills?

    I've tried things like ClickBank and can't find a niche that I could work with.

    One idea I'm quite interested in at the moment is building an Amazon affiliate site based around a topic that interests me.
    Does this model still have potential? I used to do a lot of affiliate stuff 10 years back, but that died a death - then again it was pretty mainstream stuff.
    You have bags of experience. I say - leverage and expand.

    I'm not terribly keen on Amazon-fueled sites. I know my way around them, can certainly understand their potential, but to me, just from personal experience, I would choose almost any other form of affiliate website. Where I like the inclusion of Amazon is when its presence is used for adding value (a store, interesting products in blog posts), but not where the sole focus is on Amazon.

    Anyway. Like I say, bags of experience.

    What I'd do is concentrate on developing authority and perhaps viral websites and use your SEO expertise coupled with a wider marketing plan; to include, for starters, social, email, video, forum, and all other relevant and powerful forms of marketing. I was once in your shoes, many years ago, where I almost solely relied on search engines to deliver the goods. As you point out, it's a precarious existence for a marketer - in a word, dodgy.

    So - I say use what you know, expand on what you know, and leverage too that expanded knowledge.

    Whatever you do, all the best!

    - Tom
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