Web Info & Tutorials

I get emails all the time from people asking all kinds of interesting questions; once in a while I post them on the blog or in my newsletter.

This time around someone wanted to know about earning ad revenue with a website:

Me and my business partner have currently set up a new site and we are wondering if you have any advice as to how we should start to make it earn us money. Do we build up the trafic first? or do we get the paid for links & ads first?

MY ANSWER:

The life-blood of any site (that those that depend on ad revenue,) is the the traffic. I’ll even go a step further: the value of a site is the traffic and the quality of the traffic. I think you guessed the answer by now … but just in case, you need traffic first.

Once you have traffic, people will contact you to buy ad space. I get lots of request and refuse the vast majority. Why? Killersites.com gets over 1 million+ pageviews a month of very high quality traffic.

Hope that helps,

Stefan Mischook (The Web Design Heretic)

After launching the new code wizard we received feedback that some of you preferred the previous one-page method for code creation. If you're one of these folks, you can now use the new single page option when generating your ad or search code. To use this option, just visit your AdSense Setup tab, choose either AdSense for content or AdSense for search as your product, and then click the Single page link toward the top.



Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support

A few weeks back, we announced our new AdSense for content code generation wizard. We're now happy to offer the same wizard for your AdSense for search code. The wizard guides you step-by-step through the process, making it easier to choose a search box, design your search results styles, and customize your search type. Try it out by visiting your AdSense Setup tab and choosing AdSense for search as the product.

Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support

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