Buying Frenzy
August 11, 2006 – 8:16 am
Okay not quite a frenzy but yesterday I had two good sales on a site that sells eBooks at 33% commission, and just woke up to another this morning! 3 sales in the space of 24 hours not only hit my daily target (comes to just over $20 for the 3) but is about as many sales as I've had on the same site in the past 6 months! There's no difference in stats so I can only assume I've attracted the right people for the last couple of days 
This coincides well with Burt's post yesterday on Monetisation which essentially concludes not to rely on adsense. Adsense is easy income but more and more people are blocking the ads or are used to ignoring them, plus you need either a good targeted subject or lots of visitors to make a reasonable amount of money. On our main adsense site we get perhaps 350-500 visitors a day and make on average $3.50 - 5 a day thus 1c per visitor. In the last 24 hours from just 2 visitors I've made an average of $10 per person. That's a 1000% increase essentially. Of course clicks are easier to get than selling products, as the clicks don't cost the visitor whereas getting a visitor to part with their cash can be hard at times. The adsense site has products as well, and I'm already working on a way to make purchasing those products more ideal and hopefully even one sale a day will add an extra $100 a month onto the site.
Perhaps it truely is time to forget about adsense, leave the sites that are doing fine alone and get back to the original AIS the one I learnt 6 years ago. Affiliate and product selling. I intend to attack the UK market with something they will trust to buy, something I've been planning since 2000, when I bought the domain for the job. A subject I am highly qualified on as a woman… shopping.
Have a good weekend, I'm off for a round trip of the UK 
7 Responses to “Buying Frenzy”
It's nice when it comes out of the blue like that
By Peter on Aug 16, 2006
Definitely. Had a product sale yesterday too which is always good
By Sarah on Aug 16, 2006
You can make more money from selling books or any other product then of adsense. "Ads by Google" blindness is increasing day by day.
By Taryn Rose on Aug 24, 2006
It's also getting easier to turn adsense off. However whilst blindness is still increasing there are plenty of users out there who don't even know what the ads are and will still 'honestly' click on them if they're interested. I personally think, if done tastefully, adsense can still compliment a site. I've been on sites and then noticed an ad and clicked on it wanting to find out more and then bookmarked the site. However it's a site I'd have never found otherwise.
Unless I can't find an answer on my selected group of bookmarked sites then I rarely search and go to unknown sites these days. The only time I venture out of my circle is when someone recommends a site to me or I'm being nosey in a forum or blog. So I still think adsense can work well.
But yes, products still make more money
By Sarah on Aug 25, 2006
After a long time while finding something unique, I found a very relevent link in Google Ads on a website. I clicked it and ended up on MFA site, with more Ads.
The Future will tell. You know what happended to banners
By Taryn Rose on Aug 25, 2006
Oh no, I agree the MFA sites are diluting the network, but with google's new ideas, hopefully those MFA sites will start to drop out and go back to just good ads. But still, you're right, the banners have declined a lot over recent years, but then of course there's always something new around the corner, that's the way of the web
By Sarah on Aug 27, 2006