Google AdSense vs. Affiliate Marketing

Google AdSense vs Affiliate Marketing, from which one a normal YouTuber can make more money? Is that your question? Ok, don’t worry, after reading this post, you’ll be confident about this topic.

First of all, both AdSense and affiliate marketing are the lucrative money-making platform. No doubt in that. But the baseline is, “Which one should I pick for my YouTube channel to earn more income?”.

To answer this question, in this post, we’ll see what is Google AdSense, Affiliate marketing, and which one is suitable for your YouTube channel to earn more income? Let’s get into the topic.

When an advertisement shows on the video, and the audience clicks or watches the ad means, the respective channel owner receives a certain amount as commission.

This is the basic workflow of Google AdSense. Moreover, many channel creators depend on AdSense revenue as their main income stream. But you need to meet the YouTube monetization requirements to enable ads on YouTube. Then only, you can able to make money from it.

The requirements are, the channel must have 1000 subscribers, 4K watch hours in the last 12 months, and follow the YouTube community guidelines, terms, and conditions.

East to earn money from Ad views.
Trustable payment company (Google).
Passive Income.

Need to join YPP to enable monetization.
Withdraw money only after reaching the minimum threshold ($100).

Affiliate Marketing

When you refer someone’s product on your channel, and if the audience purchase that product through your unique affiliate link means, you will get a certain amount as commission.

For example, consider the Grammarly affiliate product. It’s an English writing assistant tool and it has an affiliate program. Once you join the program, they’ll provide you with a unique affiliate link for tracking the sales. So, when you refer Grammarly to someone and if they purchase it means, Grammarly will give you a $20 as commission.

Moreover, for the free sign-up, Grammarly offers $0.20 as commission. And for premium sign-up, $20 as commission. Therefore, from affiliate marketing, you can make a big amount figure with fewer sales.

If you like to join the Grammarly affiliate program, then click the below button, and it’s free to join.

Grammarly Affiliate Sign up

Some of the best high paying affiliate programs are,

Bluehost – $60/sale
WP engine – $200/sale
Grammarly – $20/sale

For more information, read these 7 high-paying affiliate programs for beginners.

Affiliate Pro’s

Huge amount as commission.
Easy trackable.
No need to meet monetization requirements.
Passive income.

Also Read,

How to start Affiliate marketing: A beginner guide

Affiliate Con’s

Need to build trustable audiences.
With all efforts, based on the cookies period, the commission may cut.

Affiliate marketing pays you more than Google AdSense; even a single purchase can make you earn $100.
It is easy to join Affiliate marketing (it takes less than 5 minutes), but not in AdSense; you need to satisfy the monetization requirements.
Some Affiliates pay huge commission (example: Bluehost – $ 65 per sale). But AdSense pays you less commission for all ads ($0.10 – $5, and so on… it varies).
Affiliate commission rates are constant and easily trackable. While AdSense commission fluctuations are not consistent, but it also easily trackable.
Based on Geographic location, AdSense CPC values will change (example, CPC for the U.S is $2, and CPC for India is $0.25). But in Affiliate marketing, wherever the product is purchased, the commission rate is the same (example, Bluehost – $65 for all around the world).
Affiliate products are selectable based on channel niche. But in AdSense, the ads are not choosable based on channel niche (Fully operated and controlled by Google).
Recurring commission sale in affiliate products helps to earn money every month even there is no new sale. But in AdSense, each new view only brings money.

From the above points, you almost conclude the result of which one is best to make more money. Affiliate marketing gains most of the points on the list. However, it’s not mean that AdSense is not worthy for YouTubers.

In Affiliate marketing, sales only can make money. But in AdSense, each ad view can make some money. Also, there are some fraudulent affiliates in the market (not all, only a very few), but AdSense run by Google. So, there is no issue, 100% money guarantee assurance on AdSense.

Above all, there are ups and downs on both sides. But the bitter truth is, making money is possible on either side. That’s what everyone needs.

Which one is best for the YouTuber’s?

Before that, let me ask you a few questions.

What is your channel weight? (I mean subscriber count)
What is your channel niche?

With the help of these two answers, you can able to choose either AdSense or Affiliate as your income stream. First of all, find the affiliate products related to your niche. If the product is relevant to your channel niche, then select the affiliate product and promote it.

Otherwise, I highly recommend you don’t select the affiliate program which is not relevant to your channel niche. Because promoting an un-related product make no-sense and also it won’t make any sale. In this situation, AdSense is your best companion.

On the other hand, if you have fewer subscribers and fewer views on the videos, then initially concentrate more on channel growth. Once you reached the specific benchmark set by YouTube partner program policies, then the money will automatically flow into your pocket.

Conclusion

From my point of view, affiliate marketing is the best place to earn more money compared to AdSense. In the meantime, if you promote it properly. AdSense brings you significant money each month even the affiliate business doesn’t make it, but the revenue is less.

So, I hope you are now clear about google AdSense vs affiliate marketing. If you have any doubts, then comment here, I will help you to clarify.