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Internet Marketing with Google Adsense or Affiliate Programs

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How will you make money in your Internet Marketing Quest?

New Internet marketer have to know how they will be making money online. Adsense and affiliate programs are the two basic choices when it comes to this…. more experianced IM’ers use both and some live by one or the other. Testing is really only one way to know which is best for you.

Internet Marketers spend a lot of time experimenting with everything we use to make money and it will be no different for you. The fact is the only true way to know if something is effective is to take the time and test. The online world changes every day and what was working last week might not work next week. If it did not change making money would be much easier and we wouldn’t have to constantly have new information. This is the way the Internet works and you will have to get use to it.

Affiliate programs in my opinion has the best potential to make the most money. Most Internet marketers choose affiliate programs over adsense for this reason. The setup of affiliate programs does take a little work. You have two basic choices, you can join an affiliate network or you can find individual programs for products that you want to promote and join if they have an affiliate program.

Affiliate networks would be the best choice for new internet marketers because they have many products and services you can promote from many different merchants. You have all the programs in one place and like Google Adsense you can track all your stats in one place.

Finding individual Affiliate programs have only one benefit over affiliate networks. Since you are going to the source and not through a second party you can get paid more for the same task, but it will require more work on your end. You will have to manage all the merchants you have accounts with and make sure you get paid for all the sales you make. My advice on this one as a new Internet marketer stick with the affiliate networks until you gain some experience.

Adsense is Google’s ad network and it is the biggest online ad network in the world. Webmasters from all over the world use it to make money on their web pages day in and day out.Adsense is what is call a Pay Per Click or PPC network.There are many PPC networks like adsense, but again it is the largest and most advance. It is very simple to use and much easier to make money from than affiliate programs. The setup of it is very simple also, after you have your Website up and running you simply sign up for an adsense account and wait to be approved. Once you are approved you create an adsense block and put it in you site and wait for the clicks to roll in. Unfortunately getting the clicks are much more difficult and will have be a whole other article. All your earnings will be tracked by Google and you can see all your stats in one place. This make it easy to know how much you are making on all your Site and can be setup to show you which is performing well and which is not doing so well. Google will give you all the tools you need to make the best of ad blocks on your site.

There are many affiliates programs, affiliate networks and adsense type (PPC) programs out there for you to choose from. The best ones I know are:
Affiliate networks: commission junction, Clickbank and max bounty.
Pay Per Click (PPC): Adsense, Yahoo ads (YPN) and Chitika.

Thousands of Internet marketers make a good living promoting any combination of these, and you can do the same. Learning something new is never easy, but it is an excellent way to make the amount of money you want to make right from you computer. Remember every good Internet marketer read as much as they can get their hands on and test what they have learned over and over again. You will come across many people telling you this works and that doesn’t work, but the ONLY way to know is to test it for your self (I cannot say this enough).

I will leave you with this Internet marketing is fun and profitable so, just take your time and build a solid foundation. If you take the time to learn the basics now the money will come much easier for you later.