Comments on: I’ve Realized It’s Too Early

By: HostingCow

HostingCow — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:53:33 +0000

2 months and only $5? Pretty good I know a lots of bloggers who didn`t manage to make more than a buck in a 2 months.
Well, I don`t really have to say anything, you explained a lots of things.. Just focus on providing a good content to your visitors and you`ll know when is it time to monetize your blog.. I`m currently running a website about guitars and blog about almost everything.. Website is generating around $35/month, and I have just recieved my first check this month. As for the blog, it`s only few days old and I don`t really expect to make $ in my first month.. I focused on writing content and getting traffic to my site, adsense will come later!
Nice site you have. I noticed a lots of teenagers writing blogs last few months and teaching others how to make money from blogs. I guess we are pretty advanced generation! Cheers!

By: Muhammad Siyab

Muhammad Siyab — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:01:58 +0000

Tom – I agree with you that it can be a little unusual. But I’ve not completely removed them: there’s one below posts and so on. When the time comes, I’ll introduce unobtrusive ads like content links, for example. But the main thing is: its not the correct time now to monetize!

By: Tom Beaton

Tom Beaton — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:42:26 +0000

The problem with going from no ads then adding ads is that your users will notice the sudden introduction of ads. If you always have a few, and grow them slowly overtime as and when you feel you can/need to then it is less of a shock.

By: Muhammad Siyab

Muhammad Siyab — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:20:49 +0000

simonne – paid posts thru a third party like ReviewMe, PayperPost, etc can harm you (as you said, in terms of PR). But if you do everything privately (that is, deal with the advertiser privately without any middleman), then you’re fine, I say!

By: Simonne

Simonne — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:59:25 +0000

I think your decision is wise. I have to say that here I disagree with Clement: I think that for a new blog paid posts are twice harmful: one one hand you are in danger of losing credibility with Google (and believe me, I’ve been downgraded from a PR 5 to 0 over night), and on the other hand, if you don’t build your good content and your strong articles first, people won’t come back to read your paid reviews about some products which probably they also review for money.

I think AdSense is far less harmful than these ones.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:04:36 +0000

Thanks for the mention.

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:38:20 +0000

Having ads on your site will not only cause you the few problems that you will face above. They will also distract and throttles your productivity as they might urge you indirectly to waste your time to check your earnings.

Spend more time to create compelling contents is what a new blogger supposed to do so that you can make your appearance heard.

All the best in blogging.

By: Muhammad Siyab

Muhammad Siyab — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:52:33 +0000

yes you may be right, clement. Also, an occasional adsense ad here and there might not harm either. But you shouldn’t aggressively push with monetization early on: there’s the blog to build first!

You know, it’s like putting the cart before the horse, or making a new born wear adult clothes. That’s just not the correct approach! (or the thing to do in the case of the newborn!)

By: Clement

Clement — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:43:07 +0000

Muhammad

Spot on! An upcoming blogger must really concentrate on building his/her blog’s patronage before thinking about monetization.But things like PayPerPost,Blogvertise,smorty are not harmful