Affiliate and Adsense are both ways to monetize a website. Adsense wants to require a website to publish on, but affiliate doesn’t require a website.
If you have a blog then firstly you have to create Google Adsense account. After creating an account, the approval message will send the email. A person who owns a blog need to install the ad code on her website. This enables AdSense spiders to search such a site and gather information about it.
After they collect all needed info they go back to the list of available AdSense’ advertisements to check keywords associated with such a site. If they find some, they choose them and display on such a site.
Additionally, sites or blog’ owners are allowed to choose the format of ads as well as a place on which they will be displayed.
Now, In Affiliate marketing publishers (affiliates) decide to promote merchants’ products or services on their sites or blogs in order to get additional money. However, conversely, to Google AdSense, affiliates can pick the kind of products they want to promote.
AdSense vs. affiliate marketing:
- It’s easier to get into an affiliate network than it is to get an approved AdSense account.
- Affiliate marketing pays more than AdSense (Google Adsense earning depends upon the number of clicks but the affiliate marketing your profits depend on a deal you made with a merchant.)
- Most of the affiliate companies offer PayPal as a payment method, whereas AdSense does not.
- You can find affiliate products for all niches, but AdSense is not allowed on certain niches.
- AdSense offers recurring income, whereas affiliate marketing pays once per shot.
- AdSense is managed by Google alone, whereas there are many large and small affiliate companies.
- Affiliate program ads are more attractive than Google Adsense advertising banners.
- Affiliate money is made on the sale and Google Adsense money is made on the click.
