Keeping traffic inside VS. "natural flow"

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by mdvaden, Dec 31, 2007.

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    Something came to mind today, that I really have no idea of for my own needs.

    First, let me mention that 20% of all my traffic comes in to a safe woods for pet birds page, which is one of the least relevant to my actual work.

    All my other advice pages, and hiking pages, pertain much more closely to my actual profession, or what I do for a hobby personally. The other 80% of my traffic is divided among those 80 or so web pages.

    On pages like the bird and woods page, would it make sense to do much in the way of links or suggestions, to try and direct people to the other advice pages like watering tips, drainage ideas, etc.?

    I know that it would cause some increase of internal traffic - what I'm curious about is if it would even affect the Google Adsense income at all.

    Because there seems no need to increase pageviews if the ad income remains the same.

    So this issue would be revolving around whether or not people will have an interest in or visit ads on a type of page unrelated to what they originally searched or visited for.

    On one side is what I'd call "natural flow"; they searched for a page and that's the reason they came. The other, would merely be trying to keep traffic inside the website, which in my case is mostly unrelated to the page that draws the most pageviews on my site.
     
    mdvaden, Dec 31, 2007 IP