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All of us need money. Don’t we? This is the market pressure that forces you to earn more to spend more and enjoy a decent living. A lot of people searches internet to find out online earning opportunities. I personally face a lot of questions regarding this from my friends and neighbors as well. They ask for advices or suggestions. They tend to look forward for instant result, and oh dear often ends up with frustration. But there are a lot of serious minded people as well who do believe in the old proverb: “Rome was not built in a day”.

It takes time dear, and you have to carry on atleast upto a certain mark.

I’m in a mood to tell you about two important channels of online earning - Affiliate Marketing and Adsense. Affiliate marketing means you have to place advertisers’ ‘banners’ or ‘text ads’ in your website and generally when a ‘Sale’ or ‘lead’ is generated you get commission. Adsense in that sense appears somehow easier as in case of Adsense you have to place Google Ads in your webpages and when someone clicks on that ‘Ad’, you get commission. You do not need to ‘Sale’ products to earn money from Adsense.
How to apply for Adsense?

Click this link to apply for Adsense Account https://www.google.com/adsense/

How to apply for Affiliate Programs?

Click the link to apply for ShareASale.com affiliate programme.

Otherwise click this link to apply for CJ affiliate programs.

You must have a content rich web site in both the cases to get approval from concerned company.
Both ShareASale and CJ are two global advertising channels of affiliate marketing and you can find a lot of advertisers listed in their database wherefrom you can find relevant advertisers that matches your website theme.

Which one yields more?

Adsense supported websites, with so much restrictions for promotion, is not that easy to generate great revenue unless the site is flooded with traffic. You really need quality content, interesting features and lots..lots of quality traffic to earn revenues from Adsense. There are many websites that actually survive for Adsense.
On the other hand, affiliate sponsored websites have flexibility to promote. So, if you can concentrate on a target group and promote to reach that group, it may not be that much difficult to earn money from affiliate programs. Though I must agree - promoting affiliate sites call for creativity, and site must not be promotional but informative to convince the user about the products you are promoting.
So, my conclusion is that for the sites crowded with traffic already, adsense is the best option but otherwise, consider joining affiliate programs.

Goodluck.

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