Poll Results: Google Way Ahead Of Competition

The current poll, “What Program or Affiliate Brings you the Highest Revenue from your Website?” has now gone on for quite some time – and I’ve been able to gather some pretty conclusive data once again. Thankyou to everyone who placed their votes and I hope we can continue to solve the mysteries surrounding entrepreneurship, business and making money online.

Here are the results with the percentage that each answer made up against the total number of votes first, followed by the amount of people who voted next in brackets:

* Adsense: 61% (17)
* Text Link Ads: 18% (5)
* Linkshare and CJ (Per-Sale Based Programs): 14% (4)
* Chitika: 4% (1)
* Amazon: 4% (1)
* YPN: 0% (0)

We had 28 votes overall which was the lowest so far – but I think it was a slightly more complicated poll (still not rocket science though!).
As we can see Google still has the market share of users with 61% of the total vote. I think figure just represents the ease of use of Adsense. It’s still probably the simplest around: all you need to do is signup for an account, customize your ads and then paste a small bit of html code wherever you want the ads to appear.

Unsuprisingly Text Link Ads seems to be the next most popular money-making program with 18% of the vote. I’ve experienced the earning power of TLA as I got $25 for just 1 referral – easy money! I would definitely encourage everyone to get an account with TLA because its FREE! You could earn money through selling links on your site or through the referral program like me. At the moment I’m waiting for my site to get a PR from Google as the domain is still quite new.

CJ.com is still fairly popular with 14% of the vote but I think the slightly more complicated website and procedure is off-putting. Finally Chitika and Amazon don’t seem to be pulling in the money for most people. A while back I tested Amazon links here on Blogtrepreneur but I didn’t manage to rack up any sales. The commission per sale also isn’t very good.

Finally Yahoo and MSN had no votes which just goes to show how well their main competitor Google is doing and how popular it still is with internet moguls.