How soon should you monetize your blog

Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 10:48 am

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Monetizing your blog is what we all are looking to do. This question came in and here is my view.

I have a burning question:
I am seeing a difference of opinion among internet marketers (not necessarily blackhat) as to when you should add monetization to a niche blog (or website). Some say not to put Adsense or other such things on for at least 1 mo. so that you won’t risk getting in the Google sandbox for 6 mo. (or forever) and others (esp. the ones who write/sell autoblog/auto website software etc) say that you can put up niche websites/blogs and make money right away by monetizing. I have some domain names that I would rather not lose to the Google sandbox. Do you have an opinion on whether you can/should monetize right away (if so, how) or should you wait some period of time? 1 month?
Thank you for your help. I have always found your advice to be right on.

I have seen the same discussions but have not found that to be a problem when using just Adsense. I always start with just Adsense until I start building traffic. Doing that I have been able to get some search engine traffic almost immediately.

Not huge amounts to get started but as more content is added and the back links start to build the traffic increases. Then I will add other monetization methods.

Now I have had problems when I was aggressively bookmarking new sites and avoid that now. I do bookmark some of the posts but found that at least in my experience that a lot of bookmarks quickly has sent me to the sand box.

Another thing that I personally do is drip in the content. Throwing up 100 pages on a new site at once has had the same effect at times but never figured out if there was a cutoff number that caused that.

As most of my sites use WordPress it is easy to put all the content up and then have it get published over time.

Now all of that comes from my experience and I would love to hear what your experiences have been.

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.

After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.

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