How to Earn a Lot of Money with Display Advertising

One HUGE mistake I’ve made in my online career was not using AdSense earlier.

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For years, I focused on affiliate marketing and local business promotion. While both are excellent, failing to use AdSense was a big mistake. I think not using AdSense cost me at least hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of dollars.

Why would avoiding AdSense cost me so much?

Because when I focused on affiliate marketing, I went after fairly competitive keywords that had buyer intent. I published massive websites that only published buyer-intent content with affiliate links. Because those keywords were fairly competitive, I did old-school link building which ultimately ended up receiving Google Penguin penalties.

Had I used AdSense on those sites, I would have published all kinds of content and probably would have been less aggressive with link building and focused on building large, popular niche websites (which is what I do now).

> $1 Million AdSense Revenue

Here’s a screenshot reporting AdSense revenue from April 1, 2014 to June 29, 2016: