Honestly, it makes no sense to me why a low/no-traffic blog would have adsense. You're opinion? I'm not quite sure on the topic myself.
Why not ? That's my opinion you start it promoting etc you make few bucks from the begining .... why lose those bucks /.....
I put up some ads when starting my other blog (now deleted) and it got me 2 cents within the first 3 months. The strategy for that blog, however, was completely different. What I did was take the top searches for that day, do a little research, and get my friends to help me write about 10 posts a day. This was during a school break, by the way. Within 3 days, I was getting around 4,000 hits a day and the posts that made it big were the ones that everyone was talking about online. Would another blog like that on Blogspot eventually succeed in generating income?
The ratio is the same regardless of the traffic volume. So Yes. I made over $500/day with brand new sites.
yeah, even with low traffic, you can still get a higher ppc (I think). you'll never know until you try
I've actually found that Google indexes your site faster and more often if you put an Adsense ad on it. My first blog took 3 weeks to get indexed by Google, it had no ads. My new one took 3 days, I placed an Adsense ad on it from the start. I don't see the harm of adding Adsense right from the start, their ads are not intrusive at all and visitors may benefit.
The indexing part is fine for me. I'm just worried that new blogs don't have much of an efficiency with adsense because the site is getting 15 impressions a day (like me) and there's nothing but impressions going on.
It is not worth the effort of adding the code and getting it optimised First get some links and traffic going create some good content, make value for visitors get the visitors to come make them stay there track your statistics of visitors let the domain age for a month or so then add adsense I dont even add adsense to my websites even when i have 20 uniques and 100 + pageviews, i hit the adsese when the uv's cross 50 and pageviews 250, i feel it is not worth those cents
You might want to get some great content up there first, build a subscriber base and network with other bloggers in your niche. This way you'll get loyal visitors and other bloggers will link to you. People are less likely to subscribe to a content-thin, advertising rich blog and bloggers are less likely to link to it. Build up some history and Page Rank and you'll be able to get away with more (ie ads). Then you can look at affiliate programs too to diversify your revenue. Just my 2 cents.
As long as its not a MFA website, there is no point in waiting. Adsense is still the most lucrative PPC program.
Putting adsense on a new blog/site hints Google that your site is made for Adsense, so, in my point of view, that would be NO. Build your site and some backlinks, get some traffic going before adding Adsense.
My policy is to wait until a blog starts receiving a minimum of 100 organic search visitors per day before putting AdSense on it and even then, I start slow, i.e., add one AdSense unit on the side and then a second after traffic goes up to 250 per day. Too many ads too early will not generate return visitors. First build a small user base which will do all the promotion for you and then monetize it. I find that this works best for me but others may (and as you can see from many of the replies above) do things differently.
I guess one small adsense block at a proper location in your block won't annoyed your visitors, ultimately you are trying to impress your visitors with your content and people do understand it is natural to have some ads in a web page. So long the ads are not filling up most of your web page content area, I think it is ok to have it in the start, but again content is more important and the RSS subscription button is more important than the adsense block.
Putting adsense in a website/blog is among the first things I do. It helps me deciding with the design of the website and to get the best integration. I don't like seeing when a page is complete that my ad unit could look better in some other place or with some other colours. Besides, I don't think it hurts anyone or anything and some say that it helps getting the website indexed faster.
That is a good point that putting adsense into the website design gives you the best integration. The adsense and google bot share the same cache so it definitely helps to have adsense on the blog.