I’m sure a few of you have already noticed that over the weekend this site has started showing Clickbank ads that look similar to AdSense ads. I’ve been trying out Clicksor and Chitika on another site as potential replacements for AdSense and I’ve not been impressed so far, (revenue does NOT match AdSense) so thought it was time to give Clickbank ads a try which in theory could make a lot more money than AdSense. On Saturday I manually hacked my version Talian AdSense Ready WordPress SEO Theme (best theme on the site) to run Clickbank ads instead of AdSense ads and two days on I’ve now fully converted the theme to run Clickbank in a similar way to how […]
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AdSense Ads Revenue vs Clickbank Ads Revenue?
Clickbank Version of Talian WordPress SEO theme is in the works.
Over the weekend I started work on a Clickbank version of the Talian 04 theme, wrote a new post about it
Will be very interesting to see which makes more money, Clickbank or AdSense, I suspect it’s going to be Clickbank IF the niche is right. I think a Clickbank theme will do really well on a site about making money online, SEO, AdSense, WordPress etc… niches that Clickbank covers well.
Will be installing the Clickbank theme on various domains to test out how well it does relative to AdSense.
David
AdSense Ads Revenue vs Clickbank Ads Revenue?
AdSense plus Clickbank = Lower CTR/CPC
David,
I’d like to note that according to many experiments I made lately–
Combining AdSense with any sort of advertisement is a sure-fire way to lose CTR and therefore CPC.
I wouldn’t even consider using direct ads or CPM ads on the same boat.
Readers should be “concentrated” on your goal – clicks!
If using Affiliate like clickbank or CJ, then I believe the blog should be focused only on these kinds of adverts, otherwise readers will be confused and leave.
What do you think?
Did you use the same method?
AdSense plus Clickbank = Lower CTR/CPC
Split Testing AdSense Alternatives Like Clickbank
I’ve not extensively tested what happens when you mix say AdSense with Clickbank since I’ve tended to put AdSense on everything.
I’m currently working on a combined version of Talian 04 with AdSense and Clickbank
World of Warcraft is a pretty good Clickbank niche, so having themed Clickbank ads similar to AdSense ads might work out well, then again might work better to drop AdSense completely (plan to test). I think it’s going to come a lot down to niche, for example I don’t think I’d put Clickbank ads on a travel site as AdSense ads do really well, but I have some high traffic site with pathetic AdSense income (7 cents a click AND a low CTR because the ads don’t match well!!!) where Clickbank might blow AdSense income out of the water.
It’s about testing each site one by one, I expect some will work better with just AdSense others just Clickbank and others with both. The new Talian version I’m working on will give all three options in one theme.
I guess long term I could move towards having one theme with all the major advertising platforms available.
I think I’m the first to create a theme with integrated Clickbank and AdSense ads AND it’s really easy to setup by the user.
David
Split Testing AdSense Alternatives Like Clickbank
AdSense ads vs Clickbank ads
AdSense ads vs Clickbank ads is not only a great topic but practical. One advantage of using Clickbank is many Google ads are blocked by a Firefox plugin called Adblock. Therefore, a percentage of revenue is slipping though your fingers.
Most of my friend (although they are all geeks) use this program. So when a person lands on your site and has this installed there is no chance you will make anything if you run Adsense. However, this is not the case with Clickbank.
The Clickbank theme you have now looks great. I would keep exploring other programs too besides Clickbank, but if Clickbank works use it. – Occam’s razor – entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem – (basically go with what works).
I always fear doing anything that will affect my ranking in Google (doing anything outside the guidelines).
If this works with Clickbank and has not affected your rankings I will use these themes for sure. They look good and you are in my opinion one of the few people who really know what they are doing with making money online. Further, you always seem to give more than you receive.
AdSense ads vs Clickbank ads
Talian with SEO, AdSense and Clickbank All In One WordPress Theme
How does Talian with SEO, AdSense and Clickbank All In One WordPress Theme sound?
I’ve been testing the Clickbank only theme on some relatively low traffic sites that don’t make a lot of money through AdSense and the results haven’t been great, it’s very early days in the tests, because it’s low traffic and a couple of Clickbank orders would tip the scales the other way. It’s a case with AdSense you just need a click to make money, with Clickbank you need a click and the advertisers to sell the products to make money.
Because of this I decided to create a version with both types of ads available. Working on the duel Clickbank/AdSense theme right now with a test version at
Not figured it all out yet as there’s going to be issues with the main content ad (the one that floats to the right of the main content) as it would probably look awful having 2 ads (one Clickbank one AdSense) side by side.
So users will have to choose which one they want (Clickbank or AdSense via the settings). By default I’ll probably set all AdSense ads on (like the original Talian with AdSense/SEO) and most Clickbank ads turned on (floating Clickbank ad disabled).
Currently got it running via two files adsense.php, change the Google AdSense publisher id and you are good to go and an equivalent clickbank.php file where you change the Clickbank username and it’s good to go.
Will be very interesting to see how a duel AdSense/Clickbank theme performs overall.
David
Talian with SEO, AdSense and Clickbank All In One WordPress Theme
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My WordPress themes are all linked on the home page of this site
I have one theme with Clickbank ads incorporated and that’s the Talian 05 theme
David Law
Clickbank and Adsense All In One WordPress SEO Theme
I think that is a very good idea. Clickbank and Adsense All In One WordPress SEO Theme is ideal. Nothing like it on the web, not only for the Clickbank option but the SEO.
Clickbank pays. I have used them and it is possible to make nice fat sales, if you site is quality, not light and lame content. But you have to be able to write something and be sincere. As always I am looking forward to see the data on your 45-year-old-millionaire site.
I have about doubled my income from your theme, that is why I am such a loyal reader of your blog. :)
However, I very curious about other readers experiences with your theme or Clickbank. What are the pluses and minuses from Adsense vs Clickbank in some of your readers experiences? I see some feedback.
I know this is not a forum, but I am curious, how the other guys/gals are doing with Clickbank or themes etc?
Clickbank and Adsense All In One WordPress SEO Theme
WordPress Themes : AdSense vs Clickbank Ads
I have to admit I’m not sure about mixing AdSense with Clickbank ads, though expect it will work well on some sites/niches and not on others (like everything we do it depends a lot on the site/niche).
I’m trying to take this into account with the new Clickbank/AdSense theme by allowing customers to have as many or as few of each type of ad as they choose (every ad can be disabled independently). I find on some sites there’s not enough advertisers to give a good selection of high quality AdSense ads to fill the 3 content type ads and for a site like that it might work to have the main larger rectangle floating ad as AdSense and a couple of Clickbank ads on the sidebar and further down the page, this way AdSense has to use the best CTR location for the best AdSense ads and you haven’t wasted the rest of the page.
What I currently have running at is a bit over the top, (there’s 13 ad blocks on the home page, 6 AdSense and 7 Clickbank :-)) but it shows what’s possible.
I’ve had some really good ideas for improvements resulting from having to solve problems associated with trying to mesh two ad systems together.
For example I solved the issue of only being able to have one main floating content ad (one AdSense and one Clickbank ad together wouldn’t work space wise). Customers can select which ad (Clickbank or AdSense) is the main ad and that goes in the floating content area (highest CTR) on the site above it’s AdSense. The secondary ad goes into a lower content post on archive pages (not used on Single and Post pages: at least not yet anyway), if you look at the home page of the WOW site above there’s a Clickbank ad floating in the content of the 5th article: which post the secondary ad lands on is adjustable as well, so you could have the first 2 articles having an ad each, one Clickbank one AdSense or article 1 and 7 or 1 and 10….
I’m giving this theme a LOT of flexibility, ranging from 0 ads (so just the SEO theme) to anywhere up to about 18 ad units if all the Sidebar Clickbank ad widgets were added!
Going to try to incorporate AdSense channels better into this version if it’s still possible to use channels with the AdSense legacy code (ages since I used channels other than URL channels).
When I first made AdSense themes my PHP skills wasn’t very good, still not great at PHP, but I’m getting better and can solve many more problems now.
BTW a lot of people don’t like discussing their ad income in public especially when linking it to specific niches/sites, gives away information others can use and that can result in more competition. So we might find few share their experiences :-( Personally I like to hear success stories, especially if I’ve helped the person: makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :-)
David
WordPress Themes : AdSense vs Clickbank Ads
Making Money with Clickbank
Hi,
I’d like to start an experiment of using clickbank hopfeed. I have the code and it works OK.
I have noticed that you change/use the hopfeed clickbank keyword per the title of the page (where the hopfeed is presented).
Can you please guide me how you implement this technique?
Is there an online hopfeed generator?
Thanks,
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Here is another idea for your theme. Maybe a 403 -forbidden option in your theme that relates to the wp-admin page? Why? A hacked blog is a lost blog in Google’s eyes. You may come back someday, but it is a long slow road once you have been hack. Restricting access to the wp-admin page might help prevent this. This is an idea. Matt Cutts does this BTW.
-Automatic redirection on permalink changes? But maybe this is more a plugin thing.
-maybe something that can help with more links such as something that will display other people who link to your site and reward with back. I do not know. I think these are ideas.
I do not know if it would do any good but what about asking people if they have SEO or make money online ideas that could be added to future theme modifications. But only add the really good ones as I know it is hard work and you do not want too many cooks spoiling the broth. I think you know the most, Prelovac knows a lot too. But maybe someone else has ideas for a wish list on how the theme could be improved?
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I’m open to any theme ideas, like the 403 -forbidden option (I’ll look into it). I’ve had a few WordPress blogs hacked, eldest son had some sites on my server and he never updated WordPress which left an old WordPress exploit open. Two days after I bought the domains from him (he went to University studying computer science! and didn’t want them) they were hacked (had sever backups, so was easy to fix)!
“Automatic redirection on permalink changes”
Some of the redirection is now core WordPress. I’ve not used this plugin but looks like it might be able to deal with other redirects not dealt with via core WordPress.
I tend not to mess too much with changing the permalink structure on a site even if I’ve made a mistake in the past (like having dates in the URL!). When I have it’s been a case of a lot of manual 301 redirects via a .htaccess file!
Your linking back idea. That’s like Trackbacks that can be posted as comments, problem with automatically linking back to sites that link to you is link spam. If you’ve used a dofollow type plugin on a WordPress blog you get a lot of very poor quality comments just for the link back.
I’m using a heavily modified version of SEO Super Comments (original created by Prelovac) and allowing dofollow links on the commenter’s URL. It’s sending out PR/Link benefit, (so dofollow) but because these comment pages are so deep (that page above will only have one link to it) the link benefit sent out is very small. In comparison if this page (the main “Clickbank Ready WordPress Theme” post) had dofollow author links and 50 commenter’s had a URL that would take a BIG chunk of link benefit from the site and damage this pages SERPs (all that anchor text that I didn’t SEO!!!).
So using the SEO Super comments plugin with Talian can give a little back to your commenter’s without too much loss to your site. Personally I don’t comment on other peoples sties for link benefit, when I do comment it’s because I want to comment on something or direct visitors to one of my sites (99% of the time it’s I want to comment).
I’ll be releasing my modified version of SEO Super Comments plugin (it will probably only work with Talian) with the next Talian update (I couldn’t get the original SEO Super Comments to work with Talian).
Got a bunch of updates to include and fully test, so could be a while before the update goes out.
Feel free to keep throwing ideas at me, you suggested I look at Clickbank ads for example wasn’t aware at the time you could have AdSense style Clickbank ads :-)
David
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