Adding AdSense to Small Websites

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Adding AdSense to Small Websites

Can it have a negative effect in the long-run?

Gone

10:48 pm on Jul 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

I have several AdSense websites with a collective traffic of about 10k page impressions a day. I also have a number of very small websites/blogs, without AdSense on them, generating no more than 1000 page views a day. I've recently been fiddling with the idea to put AdSense code on these websites: why not get several hundreds extra bucks a year?

But then I recalled that I had heared somewhere that such a policy of placing AdSense on very small websites might actually hurt your earnings. Since AdSense is such an illogical and unpredictable thing, I thought it might be very probable.

What is your experience in this area? Are the couple hundred dollars or so worth the risk?

Thanks for your opinions

[edited by: Gone at 10:49 pm (utc) on July 24, 2008]

netmeg

12:29 am on Jul 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

I do it, I don't think I've suffered from it. Suffered from other things, but not necessarily that. My larger sites (other than a current slow period) do pretty well; over all I'm up almost 100% over the past year and more than that over two years ago.

timchuma

5:24 am on Jul 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

Depends on your content. It took my personal site several years to even get the first $100 (photo galleries don't work well with Adsense as yet.)

I have a couple of different sites attached to my main site, which is good for testing as I can change the layout around.

Gone

4:12 pm on Jul 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

Netmeg, so you place AdSense even on your smallest websites, right?

netmeg

5:41 pm on Jul 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

Yep. As long as they have content, and as long as they have traffic, why not?

fredw

8:23 pm on Jul 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

Even if they only get a few clicks a day?

netmeg

8:32 pm on Jul 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

If I make 3 cents today, that's three cents more than I had yesterday.

himalayaswater

9:55 am on Jul 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

It depends upon your content. If it is purely content oriented I will add adsense from 1st day. If I'm trying to build a community using wiki / forum I will stay away from ads till I cross 5k unique a day. You know your audience better than others.

jimbeetle

5:38 pm on Jul 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

A few folks I know build their entire AdSense strategy around relatively small, highly-targeted niche sites. As long as the content is there it can be quite successful.