Hi all, I recently started a blog to promote my website. I am starting a new company (real estate investing) and the blog is discussing how we are starting our company and the site is for people who need to sell their house. I added adsense to the blog (blogger) basically just playing around. Someone suggested that I should not do this until my company is more prominent. Has anyone else been in this situation? The ads are for our competitors in different markets. Also, would you start with adsense before you start getting a lot of visitors or wait until you have a following? Thanks in advance. I'm new to all of this and am very glad I found this forum.
I used AdSense from day one, and always monetize new sites from the get-go. If you're seeing ads for competitors, this is because those ads will be the top paying ads you'll get. You can use the AdSense competition filter, but that will replace those higher paying ads with lower paying ones. I see people moaning all the time about bad AdSense payouts, and then I also notice that they're the same people recommending using competitive ad filters. If your content is good, let your competitors pay to monetize it. I do, and I'm more than happy with my repeat customers. Blogs can be tricky to monetize as you are targeting a user that you want diving deeper into your site to read more and hopefully come back. Yet AdSense ads take that user to another site, and they may not return. The market you're going after is extremely oversupplied, I think, so I'd recommend going after a small niche in that market -- something that will make you different from the rest. In my experience, the majority of real estate blogs and websites last about 3 months, and then the people let them stagnate. Be driven, spend the time needed and you can do well very quickly.
If you really need to monetise that site, do it with affiliate links for things like home inspection services, etc. Don't run Adsense. If you have resources like mortagage (affiliate) and Home Inspection (affiliate) links, your readers will regard you as a great resource and perhaps bookmark you. If you run adsense you will get competitor ads, and if you block them, you'll just get different competitor ads, most likely. Rather than bookmarks, you'll be bleeding visitors. Gosh, that sounded melodramatic, but anyway, that's the choice of scenarios as I see it. PS: Normally I love Adsense on Blogs.
I was about to post a topic on this cause I really want to add adsense to my site, the only thing is I'm worried that for some reason my site may not be accepted. I probably get 40-50 uniques a day and its slowly climbing and with that I usually get 200-300 page views. If theres a topic already on this than just point me in the right direction, I don't wish to waste anyones time, I'm just worried about getting rejected by google for some reason and then never having the oppurtunity to use adsense again.
That is my dilemma, because really the only reason I set the blog up was to drive people to my website where I can make thousands off of a click instead of pennies if they were to click an adsense. The affiliate ads are probably the way I want to go with it. That way I can actually help my future "customers" instead of losing them. Thanks a lot for the replies.
I don't think that you will get rejected as long as you have a legit site. I got accepted and I get less than half the uniques that you are getting.
Is it safe to post my site here, its nothing new just a fan site for Guns N Roses, I just know a lot of people don't post their site URL's, is there really a reason for that?
This advice is excellent! Too many people obsess on adsense. If you find good affiliate products, you can make so much more with them than hoping people click on adsense to make a few bucks. Hunt around for affiliate products that fit your niche...go to clickbank and check them.
You can put clickbank products on a blog. What I do is when I write something, somewhere is a link to a good product I found on clickbank that has something to do with the article.
Well if you aren't doing anything groundbreakingly different and don't plan to make any enemies, link posting is fine. In general the people who don't are either quite successful or paranoid, or both. Oh yes, and don't forget the old adage: "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T out to get me!"
Hm. If the blog is to promote your site, which is selling something on it, why would you want to monetize the blog? You just want to divert traffic to your main site, right? Putting Adsense on it will send visitors elsewhere. If your intention with the blog is simply to provide a conduit to your site, where your real money will be made, putting Adsense on the blog is counter productive.
I use ClickBank and Adsense on all my blogs and websites. I recently switched to Blogs as opposed to creating websites because my blogs were getting indexed faster AND getting better ranking! Do some research...I have a good friend in Calgary making $13,000.oo U.S. on Adsense alone! It all depends on your content and goals...he also has CJ affiliates and some clickbank. CDu
that does make sense, however shouldn't we milk a cow for all its worth? i worry about losing traffic even before they click to the main site.
In the case of the person who started the thread, as I understand it, the blog was created with the intention of helping to bring traffic to the main website. Putting adsense on a blog like that is only going to diminish the desired effect. There will undoubtedly be people that would have clicked on to the main site, who instead were interested by an ad and clicked on the ad instead. It's not a matter of "they're not going on to the main site, so I may as well pick up what coin I can". It's a matter of "click here to go to our site, or check out these ads, maybe you'd rather go there instead". If you really want to explore the adsense part of it, I would suggest making other blogs, possibly about the same subject, and putting ads there. For a blog that was designed specifically for the purpose of bringing people to your site, I would not offer other distractions, unless you believe the adsense income is going to be competative with the income you might receive if they proceed to your site. Others may not agree, and of course it is only my own opinion. Good luck with whatever you decide though
The blog was originally set up as a conduit to my main site, but now I am having second thoughts with it. I think I am going to do 2 seperate ones, one on a subdomain of my site for the conduit, and one or two different ones for adsense, cj or whatever. Than you all for your help.