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Goodbye to Google AdSense for Now
By DaveM | January 2, 2007
I took a break today from writing “jerky” content and decided to re-read a couple chapters from the SBI Action Guide. That really got me thinking about what I said yesterday regarding monetizing my beef jerky site too soon.
What SBI teaches about holding off on monetization (adding income sources to your website) makes a lot of sense. After reading it all again and letting it really sink in, I decided to remove all the Google AdSense ads from my site; at least for now.
The only pages that still have AdSense on them are my individual jerky recipe pages. Those HTML files were uploaded individually (versus using SBI’s SiteBuilder tool) and it’s just too much of a pain in the you-know-what to remove them right now.
Now, as far as other monetization links, I decided to leave the ones that go to my online jerky supplier. After all, part of the goal of the site is to inform folks where they can get all-natural and/or organic jerky online. It would be pretty hard to write content about where to buy great jerky, and then leave the reader hanging.
Removing the Google ads definitely makes the site look much less commercial. This is important when trying to get listed in the big directories because they have human editors. If someone evaluates my site for inclusion in their directory, and they see a bunch of Google ads on every page, they will probably deny the listing.
Once I’m indexed with a few of the major search engines, and ranking well for some of my best keywords, then I will start weaving ads back into my content. SBI’s Monetize-It! tool actually helps with this by identifying which pages should have ads and where they should be placed for the highest click-through (and profit) potential.
Depending on the profitability of the keywords on each page, Monetize It! might even recommend Yahoo ads versus Google ads. That’s pretty cool, and it’s something I would never be able to figure out on my own. SBI has really thought of everything!
Here’s a letter from Ken Evoy that specifically talks about using Google AdSense to monetize your website. It’s VERY informative!
Anyway, that’s my news for today… Now I need to get back to writing a few more content pages and then I’m going to reward myself with a movie. 
If you missed the big announcement yesterday, and you’re sitting there wondering what all the “jerky talk” is about, then you might want to visit All-Natural-Beef-Jerky.com.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
my, my, my… i am so behind. hope your new year was bright. i have to read all the blogs to see what you’re saying here but i really write to say man! you have a nice journal here and to sing you a song…
now think of the mike jordan nike commercials of old…
“like dave, if i could be like dave” ;>)
this should probably be an email to you…
March 25th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Great site! You and I have a lot in common.
November 28th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Impressive!!! hit me up lets talk $$$$$$