How much traffic before advertising?

Useless · 2011-07-23, 10:35 PM

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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 · 2011-08-07, 12:36 PM

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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.