one strategy to using adsense with a website
I started with a site I made out of personal interest. It was online several years before Adsense existed, and since joining adsense hasn't changed. I had no programming skills, but learned just enough to get by in basic html. My site is #3 on google with the main keywords. The income is way out of proportion to what I expected. I started adsense to hopefully pay the hosting costs of the site over a year. I make that in a couple of days now, so there you go. Time and patience has it's rewards.
I have just started a second site, with Adsense in mind. It's basically a cut down version of a couple of key pages of my site that is aimed at a different intellectual level. It's getting good visitor numbers for a new site, and hopefully will do well on adsense.
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Now I'm looking to set up a third site in a completely different niche. Thought of the idea in the shower. Clearly a good place for ideas! I did a few searches to see if the niche was filled or not, and there is clearly a gap. Maybe for a reason? Time will tell.
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Anyway, my approach this time is not to add adsense to start with. I'm getting the site online, getting the content, promoting it and then putting ads on when the visitors start arriving. The difference being that I knew the niche of my first two sites, and the new niche is very much an unknown.
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GRML (Blog)
GRML Review
GRML (Software)
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GRML (Blog)
GRML Review
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I personally think there are shades of grey on "Made for Adsense". Scraper Scum is clearly a shade of black, sites that are purely a couple of pages of very limited content and lots of ads are varying shades of grey (dependant on the ratio), and making a site of interesting content on something you personally are interested hoping to monetise it is probably a pretty light shade.