Affiliates or AdSense, What earns more MONEY?

What site would make money money? A site that is dedicated to promoting affiliates (ie. clickbank and Amazon) or a site optimized to earn its maximum potential though Adsense?

It all depends upon what kind of visitors are coming to your site, and for what reason. For example, if you have a website pertaining to Christianity and its history, Adsense would earn you a better conversion ratio than affiliate product ads. Why? Because your visitors are there to learn or research something, rather than buy something.

If you have a website that reviews certain Books or Bibles pertaining to Christianity, then obviously affiliate products ads (like through CJ.com) would be ideal.

Just pretend you're a visitor to your site and it should make sense.

Affiliate programs are more profitable nowadays IMO. However, using affiliates as an extra income source instead of Adsense is a risky thing to do. The affiliate web site market is way too saturated now and with millions of sites dedicated to affiliate programs, it will not make your job any easier. You need to update your content daily and make your web site very unique to make a substantial profit.

While, on the other side with using Adsense you are getting paid per click, if you think of it. Estimate how many clicks with Adsense you get for every sign up or sale (Whatever is needed for commission) with your affiliate program. Find out the average amount of time each takes to get (Judge in a period of 2 weeks with steady traffic) and that should give you your answer. Adsense is definately the better way to go for smaller companies, and many larger ones as well (Ie. YouTube lol) but if you are serious about marketing, doing the right things could lead to success in either area.

Really, it is a toss up but you could always choose to use both Adsense and affiliates.

What I like to do is experiment. Just don't choose one or the other, let your site run with only adsense for a little while, see how much it makes, and then switch over to affiliates only, see how much that makes, then decide from there.

All and all, I would say affiliation wins most of the time