Advice on when to put AdSense on a new site

[studee]

Hi,

My website is just 16 days old and I have very good traffic ( I think its good ) 100-150 unique since past 4days, with good search engine ranking. Page views 1200 +

I just want some advise On these

1. When its right time to put adsense.

2. I have different sections in my site content (text article) gets most hits then videos then Pictures.

3. should I put it on all the pages in one go or go slow week by week day by day.

Finally on adsense AD PLACEMENT TOS it says

•Up to three ad units may be displayed on each page.
•Up to three link units may also be placed on each page.

Can someone explain what it means

Scene 1

Either
•Up to three ad units may be displayed on each page.
Or
•Up to three link units may also be placed on each page.

Total in one page = 3

Scene 2

•Up to three ad units may be displayed on each page.
And
•Up to three link units may also be placed on each page.

Total in one page = 6

?

[skweb]

Put them right away on all pages.
Personally, I do not like to populate the pages with too many ads. The best option is put one unit above the fold and one after the article ends.

[HuskyPup]

Scene 2

•Up to three ad units may be displayed on each page.
And
•Up to three link units may also be placed on each page.

Total in one page = 6

Unless you have very long pages generally only go for one of each and try them out.

1. When its right time to put adsense.

Personally I put them on immediately others may advise opposite.

[studee]

thanks a lot skweb And HuskyPup for help , i too think less is good for the time being, being a new site i want to built some user loyalty if there is something like that ;)

[buckworks]

built some user loyalty

If your content is good, a few ads will not interfere with user loyalty. I'd agree with those who say to include the ads now, but be sure to keep your content front and center.

Think of the ads as a "side dish", don't let them overpower the "main course".

[netmeg]

My general rule of thumb:

If navigation + syndicated and/or dupe content (including "maintenance" content like privacy policies, copyright notices, logos, etc) + space devoted to AdSense > original and unique content = you're not ready for AdSense yet.

If original and unique content > navigation + syndicated/dupe content + space devoted to AdSense = go for it right now!

[studee]

bukworks thanks for stating visitor loyalty just today my 3 article got comments and i replied to them and got the reply back,

netmeg: all my content is original , i ( think) i have good search engine ranks at least the 30 similar words i am targeting i am top 10 most of them else i am top 20 . i just have 20 (Text articles) i want them to reach 50 then i will put adsense. thanks a lot all of you !

[zoltan]

I started a website about 3 months ago, traffic is growing day after day. However, I have not added adsense yet because I think the ads will just send my visitors away. It is a real estate website and I want them to put free listings, not send them away. This website is still low in traffic (3-400 uniques / day) and it is nothing compared to my overall traffic (80-100k uniques / day) where I already use AdSense and make enough revenue that I can use to promote the new site (the real estate one).
So, in my opinion, if you have a budget for advertising you better concentrate on getting traffic and do not even think about sending away even one of your visitors! When you have thousands of visitors you can put AdSense on website but make sure you always have a backup plan as well (membership fees, posting fees, ebook, etc. depending on the type of your website)! Now, the question is what is the optimal ratio between AdSense and non AdSense revenue.... Mine is 30-35% AdSense, the rest of 65-70% is other.

[studee]

Hi! Zoltan , frankly ! what you said is a real eye opener for me ! i was thinking that adsense (only) can / will generate revenue for me, frankly my site is just about the things i love so on a given day i can write as many lines as i want and my initial target is just to make 3-10$ per day ( if that's not too much ). i am still trying to figure it out how many page views can do it , basically i am looking at site popularity , search ranking rather than revenue. less ads and lots of good content is what i am trying to achieve.

But reading what you said above i think i need to look beyond adsense rather Ad networks. Thanks for the tip.

[Indie]

Interesting read: I've been debating this for a while myself. My original intention was to wait until I had amassed a reasonable number of quality pages; however, this has begun to turn into a form of adsense phobia! Many thanks for the many fantastic posts on this site that have helped me enormously in taking my first tentative steps in web publishing.