Thursday, October 21, 2010

General or Niche AdSense Website

When you start up a website to make money with Google AdSense, one of the predominant questions is what topic(s) should you write about? You can follow a niche, or a certain category, or you could just write about anything that comes to mind.

Unless you are planning to make a large article articles directory, with a mass of contributors and you can make page-after-page of information, the general category of writing everything will not work out. But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Most websites maintained by a single writer tend to focus on a niche. This provides several advantages for your AdSense earnings.

When you write about a niche, you narrow your website down to a single (or several) topic. This makes the writing and research better organized in your favor. You don’t have to seek out trends or cover every topic under the sun. Instead, you just have to write about one thing. Of course, make sure you do it good.

Another thing is, you can establish yourself as an authority on this one topic. This gains reader’s trust, which of course gains extra traffic and extra AdSense earnings.

Reader’s will also become accustomed to visiting your page when they need information about your niche, which locks them in and gives you a steady base of traffic.

On the AdSense side, targeting your website to a certain niche and pool of similar keywords makes your website better for advertising. There is no change of ads that have nothing to do with your niche will pop up, so your click-through rate can sky rocket from having a niche website.

So your best bet, again unless you are starting a website and many contributors that know what they are doing, is to start a website about a certain niche.

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