Comments on: How long should you wait before you monetize a blog? – An unseen perspective

By: aries33

aries33 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:39:22 +0000

monetize my blog since day 1, earn almost 8 dollars after a month..
not bad i think

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:59:22 +0000

Glad that you are on your way to stardom eranda! Totally agree with you.

By: kharis

kharis — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:02:22 +0000

OK! i will follow your tips!

By: eranda

eranda — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:44:41 +0000

it is useless waiting months in order to monetize the blog. My blog is just 5 weeks old and the amount i have made from the blog is very insignificant, (Just over $100 and mostly thanks to pepperjam.) Even though the amount is too small they all add up in the final equation. As nadeesha said even if you make only 0.05 a day with adsense they all add up and you can at least pay your internet bill and the hosting fee after 2 months.

& it will help you keep going as a blogger. And we all know after 9-12 months if we keep posting good entries a blog can be a good money maker. Till we reach that point whats the harm getting paid something for our efforts.At least you will be able to order a pizza while writing your next blog post

-Eranda-
Turning cats in to Lions.

By: Hye Munar

Hye Munar — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:10:08 +0000

I monetized by blog with Adsense the sooner I created my blog. It is a free hosted blog. I wanted to set the expectations of my readers that my blog is generating revenue. I think some readers or visitors are used with monetized blogs.

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:33:52 +0000

Tony, I’ve heard that claim. But the thing is, if I was going for a quality blog, I would have ads and plenty of content in a few days time. It takes sometime for the SEs to crawl new sites right? But I I was going for a splog I would have 0 content and massive ads. So, in that regard, I’m safe from that flag going up in Google.

Thanks for bringing this up. Appreciate your contribution.

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:29:47 +0000

Thank you Reyah. Appreciate it very much.

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By: Tony Goggin

Tony Goggin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:20:44 +0000

This is an interesting view because it runs counter to much of the advice I have read. I know that a number of blogging experts don’t recommend monetizing with adsense right away because they claim that Google will look at this “negatively.”

From an article on wikipedia about the Google “Sandbox Effect:”

“It is observed that adding Adsense to a new website in the first few weeks of propagation will flag the website to Google and will expedite the Sandbox Effect and elongate the process where its Pagerank moves from a solid bar to PR-0 or more depending on its link popularity.”

I don’t bring this up to be argumentative, but rather to get an opinion: has anyone experienced this “sandbox effect” – taking a long time to get ranked in Google – by monetizing with adsense from day 1 (or shortly thereafter?)

Thanks for posting an opinion that runs contrary to some popular beliefs, it’s always good to challenge what is accepted as “fact.”

– Tony

By: reyah

reyah — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:45:54 +0000

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