23.2. Articles and Adsense Sites

Large content sites set up for Adsense are a different kettle of fish. For these, most of your articles will be published on your own site. Of course you want to submit articles too, for back links, but the majority of content should be put on your site with prominent Adsense ads.

These two types of sites will diversify your business. You will see them perform in very different ways in terms of where the income comes from, and my own experiences suggest that affiliate sites can way out-perform Adsense sites if done properly.

As with any of this, you need to track and test your own sites, but don’t get into the trap of putting up Adsense everywhere. It will hurt your affiliate earning potential.

In the next chapter, I want to discuss owning your own products for selling on your site. This is not as difficult as you might imagine, even if you are not a programmer or writer.

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