should I put adwords on my site .. I am a carpet cleaning company in NJ and wanted to know about puting adwords on my site to generate new income but I dont want to lose potential customers to my competition that might be in the google adwords network.. what do you think?
You mean Adsense, not AdWords. Adsense is simply AdWords ads on web sites. If you put Adsense ads on your pages, you will be supplying exit routes to your customers. Those exit routes will feed traffic to your competitors. Only you can make such a decision. The best way is to test. Put Adsense on your pages for a month or so and see what happens.
It is right what Masterful in the beginning about AdWords and AdSense, I don't know how profitable can cleaning nich be but you should try it.
Are you a carpet cleaning company or an advertising portal? It dilutes your business message when you try to be both. This article on my blog generated a great deal of conversation on this topic. Some people missed the point and thought I was attacking Adsense but most folks agreed with my observations. Do check it out and perhaps rethink things a bit - Adsense on Business Websites