How much traffic before advertising?

[HowlingWulf]

Put ads up from day one in my opinion, just don't be obnoxious about it.
You can submit to blog directories with 5 posts. Why wait for 30-40?

[faxxaff]

I think it is worth waiting to put up ads and banners before you know what your audience is. Maybe this is the main idea of SEs to wait before they send you traffic?

I think 2 or 3 months is sufficient, but when you talk about mainstream, I would say it takes around 200 SE hits a day to make it worth the buck.

[Useless]

Originally Posted by HowlingWulf

Put ads up from day one in my opinion, just don't be obnoxious about it.

What he said. Google isn't going to be fooled by a lack of ads early on.

[faxxaff]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

What he said. Google isn't going to be fooled by a lack of ads early on.

Google frowns upon affiliate links. I did a test earlier this year with 2 similar domains and similar posts (but still unique). To one I added no ads, the other one had 4 or 5 banners. Guess what? The one with no ads got around 3 times more SE traffic within 4 months being online.