I don’t see any reason to lose those early visitors.

SBI’s philosophy is that you have a limited amount of time to work on your site. Most people are doing this sort of thing part time, working it in between family responsibilities, etc.

In the early days of a site, if you spend part of your time monetizing, you’re slowing the growth of your site because you’re not creating content. And it’s content that gets you visitors.

Personally, I find that anytime I start monetizing a site, my perspective shifts from providing valuable content to optimizing my monetization efforts. So I like delaying monetization until I have enough content that the site can stand on its own for a bit until I come to my senses and start providing valuable content again.

But I also create content at a snail’s pace, due to everything else going on in my life. People who can generate content quickly and can “monetize and forget” wouldn’t have the same problems.

I, personally, think any page with content on it is suitable for adsense.

That’s one of the things I love about the SBI! monetization module. Once it has the stats to work with, it’ll tell you if you might be losing money by using Adsense ads over Yahoo ads. Or vice versa. The two services don’t pay the same, and some keywords might work better with one over the other. You can mix them on a site, as long as a single page only has one or the other.

harmony wrote:

Really, Jay? They make you wait til you have 30 pages of content to monetize?

The Monetization module isn’t available until you have 30 pages, because it depends on stats from visitors actually visiting your site to make recommendations on which pages to monetize first. And before you have 30 pages, the chances are good that you don’t have enough stats to make any analysis meaningful.

Actual monetization is you putting Adsense (or whatever) code in your pages, and you can do that at any time. If you want to monetize from day 1, you can do that, and the analysis tools will still be unlocked when you hit 30 pages.

Thanks for clearing that up for me, Jay. I, personally, think any page with content on it is suitable for adsense. I don’t see any reason to lose those early visitors. So, I always monetize from day one. As for SBI locking the stats… Well, I guess they have to have something to work with to give you a better idea of where to focus your efforts. Anyway…

Thanks Again!

Really, Jay? They make you wait til you have 30 pages of content to monetize?

The Monetization module isn’t available until you have 30 pages, because it depends on stats from visitors actually visiting your site to make recommendations on which pages to monetize first. And before you have 30 pages, the chances are good that you don’t have enough stats to make any analysis meaningful.

Actual monetization is you putting Adsense (or whatever) code in your pages, and you can do that at any time. If you want to monetize from day 1, you can do that, and the analysis tools will still be unlocked when you hit 30 pages.