Latey I was testing some alternative affiliate programs to Google’s AdSense:
To make it short: none of them works on a blog like this is. After 2 months of testing I’m removing them now and stick with AdSense, which is IMHO the best option here.
Frankly, it’s not my primary interest to generate revenue on this blog. It’s mainly a hobby, I’m doing it just for fun and for sort of professional communication and discussion.
This doesn’t mean that the above mentioned affiliate programs won’t work for you. The content of this personal blog is probably too diversified and traffic too low to attract any Performancing or Text Link Ads clients. AdSense works contextual and runs the ideal ad for each post, page and visitor.
If you’re thinking about to run ads of those affiliate programs on your blog, I’d suggest you
- limit the content of your blog to a niche
- ensure a decent readership and traffic (I would say at least 20k pages/month or 100 subscribers) before becoming an affiliate partner
Talking about blogs and ads: don’t start cluttering up your feeds with ads! RSS focuses on pure information, text-only if possible. I find ads there very annoying, not to say that it’s nearly a reason to unsubscribe such feeds.