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Adsense vs. Amazon Affiliate and Omakase

Around the end of last year I started using OpenX to take care of ad serving on a couple of my sites. The intent was that I could switch things around much more quickly to see what’s working and what’s not.

Now that it’s been a few months I decided to go and look at one of my sites and see how AdSense and Amazon Affiliate ads compared. It wasn’t even close.

Switching from eCommerce to free with ads

A few years ago I got on a kick making simple Photoshop templates and threw up a website to try and sell a few. I had no illusions that my templates were of the level that were being sold for $20+ so I went with a type of credit system similar to what iStockPhoto.com does.  A visitor buys a set of credits and uses those credits to buy templates.  Seemed like a simple process and after a little tinkering with WordPress I had a working setup.

But after two years only 3 people had bought credits and I had made a whopping 12 bucks.