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On few occasions I have been asked how come that people have 2 blogs with almost identical amount of traffic, yet they make less money with technology blogs then with let say celebrity blogs.
Think about it this way, techy people have been online for ever and they know what adsense is and also they know that if they click on it
A. They might land on some crappy website
B. The ads are just not something they click on
C. They are afraid of hitting website that could be harmful or have “not work related stuff”
Said that technology websites include such people therefore adsense might not be the right choice, but instead you could use 125×125 banners or text link ads.
On other hand celebrity blogs will include younger and older generation of people that don’t know much about internet and don’t know what google ads are.
So when they are on celebrity blog and see google adsense, they think that is just another link they might like even more due to “description of advertisers page”.
Just the other day by asking my friend why do you click on such ads?
He said “Well because it interested me and because I thought it’s part of the website”.
I thought this post might be helpful to you to chose if adsense is for your website or not, in case you own different niche blogs.
Make Money Online blogs tend to make also good amount of clicks just because there is so much people that want to start making money online.
Horaayy..there are 6 comment(s) for me so far ;)
Nice post. It is a great thing to consider when choosing a niche. Its surprising that places like DP make anything at all from it then.
I have a friend who runs a technology blog and he has gone for AdSense, I’ll ask hit how it is doing but I agree the niche has to be right.
Yeah you are more than right like everyone else who states that celeb blog makes more money by ads than tech blogs.
1st of all techies have sites bookmarked for reference. And they scan through Google search results before clicking on a website link .. how can they be expected to click on a google ad
people who search for celeb blogs are not so geeky so they consider ads as a part of content and they dont “even know that some websites are just lame. ”
PS: I hate celeb blogs which are hosted on blogspot ..
@Nishu: I think so too Nishu!
To be frank, if your reader is mainly fellow blogger, most probably they won’t click ads also.
And I was quite surprise you do so well for adsense in a year. My guess is those adsense figure is not from this blog.
@Asia’h Epperson: I don’t know if you read my whole post, but I had different layout before thats why my adsense income was growing , where now I don’t have as much advertising going on just because I like to blog more then purely making money of ads. I am thankful for all the income i generated but yet my main focuse is to provide other bloggers help. Read my next post you might find something interesting..