Advice re: ads on new site and positioning etc.

[wigwambam]

I've read on here a few times that its damaging to add adsense on newly launched sites with little or no traffic. But, we have to start somewhere?!? This is where I need your help.

I have a brand new website - it will go live in the next few days... -should I add adsense now, or wait a while?

Any help appreciated.

[edited by: martinibuster at 10:19 pm (utc) on June 5, 2006]
[edit reason] See TOS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[wigwambam]

Due to the lack of help, I'll simplify my question...

I have a brand new website - it will go live in the next few days... - should I add adsense now, or wait a while?

[ineedmoney]

that depends, do you want to make money right away or wait till later to make money?

[RuDeDoGg]

I think his question is whether or not smart-pricing will hurt him if he adds the advertisements now.

[david_uk]

Where are you planning to get traffic from? Knowing that might help.

[gear]

daviduk
I have also same situation and I am planning my most of traffic from usa.

[david_uk]

What I meant was if you are planning to get traffic from advertising with adwords, you might as well put the ads there now. I've just started a new site, and am using adwords to get a few visitors whilst I construct and promote the site.

If you are expecting organic traffic, then I'd still be inclined to put ads on it. Trouble is that unless there is a reasonable amount of traffic, it's difficult to truly measure effectiveness of ad positions.

[Rosalind]

If you launch your website and immediately plaster it with all three ad blocks, plus the link thingy and a search box, you could put off potential visitors. When you are starting out and trying to attract visitors and links in, it's best to go easy.

But I don't see any good reason why you shouldn't put some Adsense on. Smartpricing is meant to penalise poor conversions, not low traffic overall.

[wigwambam]

Thanks for the comments.

I'm not advertising. I hope to drive traffic via links and in time, search engines.

I will only have 1 ad unit per page - the site is a hobby and its hoped the ads will cover cost of hosting.

So little traffic at the moment - from links via my own main site. I think I'll wait a few months.