Over the past few days, a friend of mine and I were emailing back and forth on creating websites, revamping current websites, and one idea that came about was not having any adsense (or other advertising) on the main page. As in...creating those optimized for adsense sites....not having on the main page but only in the interior pages. I am working now on a yoga website and the main page I created, I have no adsense on it, but the interior pages where the articles, etc are will have the adsense. The main page just explains yoga and sells ebooks on yoga (main thrust, sell one ebook, more money than a few clicks on adsense). So is this a new concept? At least since the introduction of adsense. Does anyone do this? If so, does it work better than having adsense on the main page?
I don't have any AdSense on any of my home pages. I figure people will make it into the site and get hooked before wandering off into AdSense land. Also, the pages load more quickly for that nice first impression. That said, how many people come into the site from the home page?
I've got the homepage clean of adsense on most of my sites.... Saying that though, the vast majority of people arriving at my sites are landing on internal pages anyway (Which is how I prefer it)...
Yeah I found it does because Adsense is all over the place on the internet so only keep it to content pages. But test test test!
Depends on how visitors are coming to your site, I would think. If you have readers who come every day, for instance, they will quickly get tired of seeing the ads, and they aren't very likely to click on them anyways. So, you might want to keep adsense off of the front page for their sakes, but keep it on the back pages for those who come from search engines and are more likely to click on the ads anyways.
For my oldest site, which discusses agricultural commodity markets, I do not place AdSense on any of the headline pages. AdSense is limited to visitor copies of articles and a couple of standard pages. Subscriber versions of articles are ad free. AdSense is less than 3% of total revenue for the site. The other 97% has been our sole source of income for the past decade. I have no idea what how much this hurts ad revenue. Newer sites, which take the traditional approach of AdSense everywhere are not yet attracting enough visitors to make a valid comparison.
Years back, had no advertising on it at all. No banners, no nothing. Just quickie reviews of products with links to other pages where they could read more and purchase. With all the emphasis on adsense and adsense placement, I got into the game of putting adsense everywhere, just like everyone else. So my friend came up with no adsense on the main page by channeling his 20-30 most visited pages and then looking at the channels. Found out that the main page got very few clicks. So he removed all adsense. And found by the end of January that his interior page clicks and income rose dramatically. Oh, plus he removed all exterior links and banners on his main page...just links to the material on his site. Okay, now to get back to my yoga site (got 90% of it done) and get a domain for it.
i plan on doing this too. my brand new site shows that alot of my visitors come straight to the home page. i don't have adsense on the home page, only the interior ones.
on my new project, i'm planning on doingt that to . i think it's good concept. but i think it depends from site to site and you need to just test it out and review it.
Interesting idea, I had just figured that more places for ads = more better :-p I think that I might tweak my channels a bit and give this a try.