I have a PR7 Russian/English translation site. This site comes up number
1-5 for all major search terms in all major search engines. I am reading
about the AdSense program and thinking of possibly getting into it. The
only question I still have is this: Google will be placing "relevant ads" on
my site, so I will be, in fact, sending my hard earned visitors straight to
my competitors. Am I gaining or rather losing here, I wonder?..

On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 02:40:32 GMT, Mark Shell <markashell@REMOVEearthlink.net> wrote:
> I have a PR7 Russian/English translation site. This site comes up number
> 1-5 for all major search terms in all major search engines. I am reading
> about the AdSense program and thinking of possibly getting into it. The
> only question I still have is this: Google will be placing "relevant ads" on
> my site, so I will be, in fact, sending my hard earned visitors straight to
> my competitors. Am I gaining or rather losing here, I wonder?..

I have a couple of relatively popular sites, a PR7 cooldictionary.com
and a PR6 algebra.com. I run adsense on both. I find that most ads
are, in fact, NOT for my competitors in the narrow sense of the
word. They are for sellers of algebra software, tutoring companies,
etc. I do not consider them to be my competitors, as such. My
competitors are other algebra help websites.

Your experience may be similar. You may find that you are running ads
for Russian tour companies, sellers of language books, language
courses etc.

In fact, I am now thinking of adding freedict stuff to my site
cooldictionary.com.

igor

Mark Shell wrote:
> The
> only question I still have is this: Google will be placing "relevant ads" on
> my site, so I will be, in fact, sending my hard earned visitors straight to
> my competitors. Am I gaining or rather losing here, I wonder?..

You can provide a list of domains that you don't want ads placed for.
Easier said than done, in my experience.

RFM

Mark Shell wrote:

> I have a PR7 Russian/English translation site. This site comes up number
> 1-5 for all major search terms in all major search engines. I am reading
> about the AdSense program and thinking of possibly getting into it. The
> only question I still have is this: Google will be placing "relevant ads"
> on my site, so I will be, in fact, sending my hard earned visitors
> straight to
> my competitors. Am I gaining or rather losing here, I wonder?..

That's a very good point, but I think it greatly depends on where and how
you place the adverts.

If your main query page contains words like "Russian" and "Translation"
several times, adverts to accompany that page are likely to be competitors.
If, however, you place AdSense in the results page, then the keywords
identified will vary. If somebody looks for Poodles, then perhaps adverts
will correspond to dogs. Make sure you know which keywords will dominate.
Test it.

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com

Thanks Igor. BTW, I was trying to contact you before with an offer to
exchange our PR7 highly relevant links, but couldn't find your e-mail
address on your cooldictionary.com site. If you are interested, could you
pls drop me an e-mail using "admin at language-usa.com". Thx.