Comments on: Focus on Content, not Ads

By: Ads on your blog from the start? | Internet Marketing - John Martin's Blog

Ads on your blog from the start? | Internet Marketing - John Martin's Blog — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:42:35 +0000

[...] is not in favor of monetizing from the start either. He quotes Aaron Wall as saying “don’t monetize your site until you [...]

By: How to Make Money with a Blog » Ask Shane.org

How to Make Money with a Blog » Ask Shane.org — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:20:07 +0000

[...] first step might be counter-intuitive: don’t monetize your blog too soon. I know it’s tempting to put ads up right in the beginning, but trust me: resist the [...]

By: The Three Biggest Internet Marketing Time Wasters

The Three Biggest Internet Marketing Time Wasters — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:30:27 +0000

[...] that are purely informational in nature, some experts suggest to wait until a site can draw around 1,000 visitors per day before placing [...]

By: Top 10 Blogs About Making Money Blogging

Top 10 Blogs About Making Money Blogging — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:06:25 +0000

[...] I know many of you are dying to make some money with your blog despite my advice to be patient, so I figured I’d throw you a bone today and list the top 10 blogs that I’ve found [...]

By: How Do I Find Advertisers for My Blog?

How Do I Find Advertisers for My Blog? — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:12:54 +0000

[...] you definitely want to avoid monetizing too soon. Very few things can kill a site quicker than letting your advertising overwhelm everything [...]

By: Sugarlicious Money from Your Blog

Sugarlicious Money from Your Blog — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:02:22 +0000

[...] again, at least) before we spend much time at all on monetization. I can’t say it enough: focus on content, not ads. And spend some time each day attracting new readers, too. It’s just as important to be [...]

By: nika

nika — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:15:33 +0000

Shane: thanks! With blogging, on Mondays, take everything for granted, on Tuesdays, take it all with a grain of salt, on Wednesdays, try not to hit “delete this blog” and on Thursdays, try not to ask your mom, who has a higher page rank, to give you a link, she just wont do it, and on Fridays, just try to forget about it all, its just blogging right?

With all this reading about monetization, I am experimenting with more attactive food-specific ads again and I am picking up my posting rate. The result? not much at all and zippo ad clicks. Patience is a virtue.. a hard one.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:43:04 +0000

What great comments, Nika! You make several great points, and they just go to show that every situation is different, particularly in blogging. There is no one-size-fits-all advice, so take everything anyone says very cautiously as you apply it to your own situation.

By: nika

nika — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:55:03 +0000

I agree tho its likely that you should wait and see if you can maintain that 1000 hits/day for some time.

I have had people write me to ask my I DONT have ads (these are not advertisers looking to place either, just readers). I think that in some ways a web page with no ads looks odd to people used to seeing and blocking them out.

I wonder if people see a blog with no ads as some how less professional?

I move in the food blog world and some blogs are more like photo blogs (but with lots of verbal content too) so the no-ads ethic from the photoblog world can bleed over, to a small extent.

I have been over that 1000 hpd threshold and have technically “monetized” at various times but have never found the income to be work the visual garbage.

Food bloggers do it for the love it, we do not make money (except for a few media darlings). It would be great to convert to successful monetization.. that just seems unlikely from my paltry and unscientific experiments

By: Creating Value Then Profit | Latent Semantic Indexing

Creating Value Then Profit | Latent Semantic Indexing — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:21:30 +0000

[...] an attendee from the first Elite Retreat, posted about why it is not best to monetize a blog right out of the gate: So, your focus at the beginning has to be on attracting and retaining readers. You do that by [...]