Don’t Clutter Your Website/ Blog. Less Is Sometimes More.

Posted January 19th, 2009 by William & filed under Blogging.

Messy Messy Messy

Some websites I’ve been to have adverts, affiliate links and text links EVERYWHERE. Yes, all these are ways to make money and yes, some people can do it quite well. But try not to flood your website with too many methods of trying to make income.

The long term success for a website depends on the loyalty of the brand, as well as the SEO to bring people to your pages. Unless you are one of those websites which have been SEO optimized to get high ranking, only to find a site full of Adsense links to elsewhere, then don’t cram too much on your blog/website!

And when I say brand, I mean how people perceive your website. If you claim to be the authority in all things ‘dog grooming’ for example, and you website is full of text links that take them to FOREX sites, you’re slowly going to lose those visitors.

Even now, I’ve got some Googe Adsense Link Ads at the top of each post, but realistically I think that I won’t get all too much money from Adsense on my site. Even if I manage to get thousands of visitors a day to my site, it may not convert to people clicking through, but I have to get those thousands of visitors in the first place. Then I’ll let you know.

Rather than flood your pages with links, why not try selling an affiliate product? For example, something like Comission Blueprint, which I’m going to start trying to sell on this site.

Selling an affiliate product can leave your pages a lot cleaner as it doesn’t need links everywhere, as well as the fact that an affiliate product can give you upwards of USD20 per sale. Which is pretty good when you start making a few sales a day.

So try and keep the site clean, don’t make it look like one of those bulletin boards you see at universities/colleges.

But then again, there are people who can make tonnes of money from Google Adsense, but they still don’t flood their pages with adsense everywhere. It takes more than adverts everywhere to make money with Adsense… Things such as placement, content, SEO etc.