How many unique visitor to have before putting adsense on your page?

[mtzheng]

i know you can start it from day 1, but can you tell me your experience please?

how many would you call "substantial number of unique visitors per day"?

i will vote for 300 ~ 500 unique visitors per day for a new website.

ps: We are talking about brand new sites here.
regards

[fischermx]

30 day minimum

[zeus]

hmm in my situation adsense is a wast of time and ad space, I recieve about 60.000 unique a day.

[fischermx]

I have not cashed my last 3 adsense checks : July-September.(waiting a trip to TX)

I emailed Google and ask them the expiration of the checks and they told me they are valid 6 months.
I hope that's still stand.

[Zygoot]

I'd put AdSense on the website as soon as it's finished.

[pcgamez]

If you have any traffic, there is no reason not to put it on there. The only thing is, if you have only 10 visitors/day, be happy with one click per week.

[incrediBILL]

I'd put AdSense on it the minute I finish it as every click missed is a click you'll never get again. Once AdSense is on the site click on each and every page so the Google mediabot comes to crawl it so when traffic gets to the site the ads are already on target.

I have not cashed my last 3 adsense checks : July-September.(waiting a trip to TX)

Good idea!

Let the big corporate giant hold your money and earn interest so they can buy more chandeliers and porches.

[mtzheng]

thanx for all replies.

I'd put AdSense on the website as soon as it's finished.

how do you determine when the website is finished? i know must a silly question, but don't you have to update the site constantly and regularly to attract more visitors?

is it advisable to attract a minimum unique visitors/day(say 500) before putting adsense on your site?

I'd put AdSense on it the minute I finish it as every click missed is a click you'll never get again.

wouldn't adsense on the brand new sites make your visitors turn away because they think they had reached another "ad site"?

regards

[incrediBILL]

wouldn't adsense on the brand new sites make your visitors turn away because they think they had reached another "ad site"?

My wife just put up a new site w/AdSense a couple of months ago with AdSense from the very beginning and it made a few dollars a day from the very start so I wouldn't be too concerned about that unless your site looks like an advertising billboard.

[qbert]

I still don't know how to create a new site and make "a few" dollars a day so soon.

[Zygoot]

>how do you determine when the website is finished? i know must a silly question, but don't you have to update the site constantly and regularly to attract more visitors?

Well I mean as soon as other people can view it.

>is it advisable to attract a minimum unique visitors/day(say 500) before putting adsense on your site?

Not really. It will (normally) take quite long before you reach 500 visitors a day and during that time you'll miss a bunch of clicks and you will have zero income..

>wouldn't adsense on the brand new sites make your visitors turn away because they think they had reached another "ad site"?

In many cases the user doesn't even know whether he/she has reached a new or an old website. And besides, I don't think many people stop visiting sites because of advertisment (unless it's really annoying like popups etc.).

[incrediBILL]

I still don't know how to create a new site and make "a few" dollars a day so soon

The easiest way is to be my wife and take advantage of my skills and expertise.

However, that WIFE job is currently filled and I'll keep you in mind if there is an opening.

[mtzheng]

wouldn't a "ad free" site considered to be more professional, and more authoritative in its field? in another word, does adsense on the website have a significant impact on the number of visitors within 3 months after you finish your website?

regards

[fischermx]

Some times, it is the reverse effect:
When I see a website using doubleclick software, I know it is a big site, since it attracks advertisers directly to his site.
Of course, since everybody uses adsense, it does not make you any extra points, but I think it does not hurt you either as long as you use it discretly.

[incrediBILL]

wouldn't a "ad free" site considered to be more professional, and more authoritative in its field?

It also indicates poor business savvy and/or poverty of the author.

Newspapers and magazines are considered authoritative and they are littered with ads.

[Zygoot]

Indeed,
When I was still a newbie on the web I sometimes considered sites with specific types of advertising more professional than others.

It's hard to say whether putting AdSense on your website will hurt the number of visitors but personally I believe it won't have a huge impact.

You have to question yourself whether you want to make money or not.

[Sweet Cognac]

50

[ann]

Well, With my new site I ran a test to see how long after putting up an adsense ad that I would get listed in Google.

I have it only on the index page and the next day I googled the name of the site and there it was, just the index page. I feel Google picked it up when Mediabot hit it. :)

Tonight I am going to put ads all over it including my banner ads. Just the few visitors I have managed to get has clicked 5 times this week on that one ad.

As soon as the page loaded the ads shown and they were highly targeted!

Anyway that was my experience with getting at least one page in Google. Yahoo Had my whole site indexed in 3 days.

Ann

[jstar]

I have not cashed my last 3 adsense checks : July-September.(waiting a trip to TX)

Good idea!

Let the big corporate giant hold your money and earn interest so they can buy more chandeliers and porches.

Not necessarily a bad strategy if you are overseas and you expect the US$ to get stronger over time...

[david_uk]

wouldn't a "ad free" site considered to be more professional, and more authoritative in its field? in another word, does adsense on the website have a significant impact on the number of visitors within 3 months after you finish your website?

I think there is a balance. Visitors expect sites to be supported by advertising nowadays, so aren't going to get annoyed there are ads on the site. But if the advertising is excessive then visitors might be inclined to click out faster.

If it's a content site, and the webmaster wants visitors to read the content, then don't put ads on every page - just a few key ones.

Having said that, it just depends how you do it. One of the regulars here (europeforvisitors - site easy to find :) ) site's seems to have an adsense banner on every page yet it integrates beautifully, and the ads are a usefull addition to each page. Many webmasters make the mistake of putting up big, brazen in your face banners, whereas subtelty and good design often work better.

[adi_c]

:)) incrediBill always cracks me up...

Seriously now...I don't think adding adsense right away will have a negative impact on the number of visitors.
But I do feel that if you want to get your site listed in dmoz, for example, you should wait until you have been accepted.
Anyone feel the same way about this?

[wyweb]

But I do feel that if you want to get your site listed in dmoz, for example, you should wait until you have been accepted.
Anyone feel the same way about this?

For what it's worth: as a former DMOZ editor I can tell you that sites can be and often are denied listing because of excessive advertising and that the interpretation of the word "excessive" is left largely to the individual editor.

[ann]

Oh well, maybe I will wait a little longer to see what DMOZ is gonna do, sure do want this new one in the index.

Ann

[21_blue]

IncrediBILL wrote:
>Newspapers and magazines are considered authoritative and they are littered with ads

True in a lot of cases, but there are some newspapers/mags (and websites) that, imho, lose their authority by the way they present ads. If ads and content are clearly separated, it maintains authority. But if they are presented so that it is difficult to tell which is which, it degrades the content in my view.

There are some websites that weave the content around the ads. I certainly notice the ads, but I end up clicking "back" because the ads are so intrusive that I can't easily read the content.

[radix]

It's not only DMOZ that might consider (excessive) advertising on a site as a negative factor. Natural inbound links might also be harder to get if your site is most apparently made for profit.

So, if you expect one-way links, you might want to wait until you get some, then you could put some advertising on the site.

[wings]

DMOZ? Is that dusty corner of the internet still alive?
How long does it take now to get listed? 3 years instead of 2 year?

[bts111]

Use Adsense or any form of advertising on the site the day you launch.

Why spend a large majority of your life on the computer and not get payed for it?

Don't wait ;)

[Mad4it]

As far as DMOZ is concerned - a friend of mine started a site recently as a resource against bullying (not a very pleasant thing to deal with I know) - submitted to DMOZ and was added to the directory within about 2-3 weeks.

I realise thats probably the exception rather than the rule!