Should you place Adsense on your paid web directories?

i found part of paid web directories, no matter big or small, (no free submission offer) place Adsense code on their detailed page, category page or sitewide column,
how do you think about this ads?
should we place Adsense while charging someone submission/review fee?

 

I don't think Adsense will make revenue on directory sites, based on my experience

 

Totally pointless of placing ads on a already paid site. Why the hell in this world are you placing ads when the revenue is coming by site submission fee ? Unless ofcourse the owner is money minded.

 

it depends on what the niche is, like business or real estate maybe get higher revenue...

 

A similar thread can be found here

 

umm... well i think its not about teh adsense, but more about how they're put, and the adsense units used!

if your talkin 2 big boxes, "preceed" the actual content,... then it looks totally mfa! ...

but worse is when dierctory owners put adsense link units in place of the menu bar, and the menu bar on the top right hand corner,... you have to squint to find out where to go to submit!

2. adsense units on submission page .... right between somewhere the input boxes,... what were they thinking, i stumble on their site, start submitting, ... and i will click on the ad only to loose the data that i just typed/ pasted???

in the end its not about yes/ no its more about where and how big?

M.

 

I tried it and it didn't work for me.

 

It's your honest comment,
if the adsense ad on detailed page is useful for our visitors,
I would be very happy to do that on my directoies.

 

If part of what submitters are paying for is a detail page to promote their site, is it truly fair to allow their competitors on the same page for pennies?

If running a paid directory, I think I would limit Adsense to categories without listings and common areas - blogs, articles, news, etc.

Why not sell the space in the sitewide column to sites that already appear in your directory?

 

It is all depend on the directory owner. Really need the data to judge whether it is suitable to put adsense ads. If the earning is good, then nothing wrong to put adsense ads on the directory, else i will suggest just remove it

 

I don't know why it is that I wanted to say the same thing but you said it first Very good point there! In fairness to clients who are paying for your service, I see no point of running AdSense on directories.

 

Same here, it depends on the niche -- add ads only if the niche has adsense of high value such as real estate and insurance. There are many more options for monetization past the level of placing ads and getting revenue for people listing their company sites in directories. A good plan is using affiliate programs in order to gain revenue.

 

Both points are dead-on. The problem most run into when putting adsense on a directory is that they don't know how to properly do it so it is both effective and does not interfere with listings from submitters.

That is completely different than adsense and should not be done imo.

Not sure that you and YMC are saying the same thing there....

 

IMO, it is not worth it,, usually the earning is pretty low from my experience...

 

Hi swedal YMC was talking about using AdSense on the Detail page. I personally do not use AdSense in my directory. However I do use it in one of my blogs and it does make "sense"; it not only blends with the content but also does it add to the graphics (I use image ads)

As far as directories go, I think directories without AdSense look somewhat 'cleaner'...(my personal view)

If anybody here uses AdSense on his directory, I would like to know what he has acheived in doing so (a few cents extra monetization aside)

 

In a paid directory model, the listings themselves should be providing the profits. Adding Adsense just seems somehow greedy and a bit dishonest. While I think it's 100% a no-no on a details page, my feelings for adding it among the listings are a little less strong but certainly lean towards not doing it.

I guess with the sitewide column comment, I should have been a bit more precise in my answer. I'm not a fan of sitewide anything. But, I think it would be perfectly reasonable on any directory (free or paid) to offer advertising on a category-wide basis - a "sponsor this category" sort of thing.

Alistair, I'm not sure what you mean by what someone has achieved by adding Adsense. Most of the answers here would indicate folks only do it only for the money. However, it is one way to present visitors with something in a currently empty category - of course one would hope there wouldn't be too many of those in the first place.

 

In my experience, the paid directory model with AdSense simply does not mix. I don't see any point in doing it anyway.

 

This has been talked about many times and I always seem to feel different each time. Although I have not tried this yet, I think that it might be a good idea to place some ads on the submission page, the reason I say this is because sometimes submitters change their mind and move on to another directory or site, if they are going to do this then why not get what you can out of them? Even though it is pennies it is free money and with today's economy you should be trying to get every penny you can.

But placing adsense ads on details pages is just down right disrespectful to the person who paid to have that page.

 

Waste of time, if you place ads on directories site.......

 

As Alistair said, this has been talked about before, but no idea why people are so down on adsense.

Putting adsense on a paid listing is naughty, and common sense tells you to stay clear of directories that would do this, but there absolutely no harm in putting adsense on free listing pages, or on search results pages.

Monetize the traffic, thats the name of the game. In fact, the revenue we make from adsense on the free listings means we have drastically reduced our charges for the paid listings.

Everyones a winner. Those that say directories can't make any money from adsense or similar either have minimal traffic, or their ad units are in the wrong place. If directories can't make money from adsense due to low traffic, then they shouldn't be charging customers for paid listings! IMHO.