But, google adsense for instance will require your website to be active for atleast 6 months. So, a beginer like me will have to wait till a good blog is built to attract adds.

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Korikkar

I don’t want porn adverts, just normalish relevant ads.

Ideas?

Thanks for this blog. I will certainly be coming back (curious about the Mom blogs post for one thing!)

At PubMatic, we’ve found that direct ad sales are one of the strongest revenue creators for a web site, generally much stronger than ad network sales (no surprise there of course). So it’s good to put ads on your site early on as you never know when even a small advertiser might want to buy sponsorship on your web site. If you don’t have ads up, then advertisers will assume that you won’t accept any.

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I don’t run Google ads on “current” pages. The ads start when the page is five days old.

This might not work for everyone, but I get a lot of search engine traffic on my older posts, so the ad income is significant. By not running them on new posts, my regular readers don’t have to see them.

In retrospect they might be more likely to follow an ad out of a 2 hit a day blog in fact if there is nothing else of interest on it.

Farfield> Most of the time you see that particular advice it isn’t because they have your best interests at heart. I just wrote a post on that bit advice actually. So to avoid me saying something I shouldn’t to a few people I I am bowing out of this one.

Looking back I think I should have waited to hit the 100 visit per day minimum (sustained). But now my ad dollars per day is improving nicely (no retirement yet).

I took the advice and removed all ads from my blog. Of course I like the look of it better when it’s ad-free, and I didn’t really get clicks on my adsense account, so for a few cents, I’d rather have a clean blog.

And I think when your blog becomes more popular, readers will understand it when you activate the ads again. Especially if you just are honest about it and tell them why you do it in a post.

These things need to be PLANNED OUT.

If you’re thinking that someday you’d like to have the 125×125 box ads, put them there NOW, but instead of putting “advertise here” on all four or six blocks, put up affiliate links to related programs or products. The reason for this is two-fold: It makes it look like you already have advertisers, which might entice new ones, and it also prevents ad-blindness because when you change them out for new ads, people will take notice. Remember, images are very important in blogs and design when writing posts, but they are also important on sidebars and overall blog design.

I think that I will definitely have to do something about getting some ads in some long term positions very soon. The problem with me, is that I rarely give an ad the chance to succeed, I keep changing them around and I never actually allow them the time to convert.

I will be changing my motto now, given your advice, and I am going to try and find some quality ways to monetize the site and make them stay there for the long haul. I appreciate your advice on this matter and as usual, your answer was quick, straightforward and very easy to understand.

Being a teenager, it does not make life any easier at all. I am only 16 years old, and most big companies out there have an 18+ policy – so I rarely bother applying. That being said, I’ve successfully been granted access into a few companies, now I need to find offers and ads that will convert well with my clientelle.

I also need to bump up the traffic and popularity of my blog, I am certainly doing better than last year, I’ve moved from a couple of hundred uniques per months to a couple thousands – which is great improvement given my time constraints. Thanks again for answering the question Darren.

Boostranks> They don’t suspend your account for lack of traffic. After I flipped my old blog I went for more than two years without even accessing my account much less having a single page impression and the day I started up again last fall with just a trial blog it was there waiting for me.

Lightening> as a reader why do think you should be getting something for nothing, which is what content without advertising amounts to.

Michael> Why offended by ads, do you get pissy when you go into a store to look at something and find they have thousands of other products they are trying to sell you? I am trying to understand what your offense is here. The same question I asked Lightening could easily apply to you as well.

I am going to agree with you Jimsom that most people are not going to see the ads unlike 13 years ago when I was designing for a living. Back then no one wanted to see any advertising on the web even from corporate sites for their own products. Most site owners were too stuck on how great they were for putting up a site that no one else’s name should ever grace it, much less put advertising on it.

Now though the web is just like any other medium of information out there. Advertising adorns it because you as the reader are getting something for nothing. 15 years ago if you wanted the kind of tips on building readers or showing yourself to the world you bought newspapers, journals, newsletters, magazines and books or watched on cable tv all of which cost someone money. Seeing advertising is simply the trade off you make

I also agree with Tom that ads give you the credibility of at least trying to be serious in your efforts rather than having some vanity blog that hearkens back to the days of old when anyone with a geocities website thought they were a webmaster and knew it all.