I've got a really small website (about 300 forum members), and am wondering when would be the best time to place adsense on my site. I know, at this time, the amount I would make would not be enough to justify putting ads on my site. Is there any particular time when you guys started advertising on your websites? Also, do ads such as adsense tend to steer away potential members? I'm not going to flood my site with ads (probably just start with an adsense bar next to the logo, much like DP).
I would start placing adsense as soon as possible... earnings will increase as time passes by and as your site grows.
Well, My free forum hoster has no ads on their sub forums. I will put them on when i have around 250 of them running. Currently 61 with 100 impressions...
I haven't put any ads on my sites for too long. Don't make the same mistake. Rather re-invest all your earnings into growing the site. Ever since I started doing this my traffic has exploded (I took the Adsense money and put it back into the site). I have been able to maintain around 20% monthly growth on average. So if you do the same, your site will grow faster WITH adsense, since you have money to grow the site.
I heard about the first few months are "AdSense honeymoon" and you'll get higher price for clicks. I'm not sure if this applies to you though.
I've never heard about this... are you sure? Everyone seems to start off at the same level.. (what about those who build several new sites for their network )
Put the ads on now, for if you put them on later, visitors will notice that they actually are ads. I find having ads as early as possible works the best.
why not? Try it and see what happens, i believe slowly you will see your earning gorwing as your site grow too...