When I blog, I provide a service to help people. For that reason, my products are designed around the same thing as my niche. My website brings in money, from my own products, and on my blogs I began writing and posting to help, not necessarily to make money.

Most my ads are directly related to my niche and I have put in other products, indirectly related to my niche, that I have enjoyed, especially if I write a post about it. For example, I put up books like, Think and Grow Rich and The Science of Getting Rich, because they are classics, give excellent advice on how to process thought, and I refer to them a lot.

So, I guess I am saying that ads directly related to my niche are best, for my readers and me, and ads related indirectly are helpful as well.

ps show us the red plane, lol!

Elizabeth

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I think Marc’s point about target audiences resonates more with me as a result of your comment. People are implicitly asking for your advice and recommendations on motivation by visiting your site. For this reason I’d be inclined to load up on these topics. Given your perception of may items in this genre it may take some effort but it should be your focus.

I have an Amazon widget I really like that you may want to mimic… you can also profile some of the books/products to further point out where you think those authors are falling short… this may lead to your own ebook to fill the gaps you point out which then provides you with the best ad opportunity – your own product.

I’ve given this much thought over the last couple days and I’ve even modified my ad selections and altered my initial read on this topic.

I certainly want to track this topic further and you’ll have to keep us posted as to your progress and successes.

Thanks!
Dave

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In my opinion it is better to display ads that are about the same subject as your blog. This is because people that are interested in the subject you are writing about are more likely to click on an ad of the same subject.

For example if the person is reading your article about focus. And he sees the ad that claims to improve their focus in a week. It is very likely that the person interested in this topic will click on such ad.

But I do understand the point you made about all the ads being the same in one niche. I am writing personal development articles and I have noticed that all ads are similar in PD sites.

However I go around this by placing ads where visitors are more likely to click. I maximised the location of them by placing them at the top, in the middle and at the bottom of my articles. Although that makes my articles quite ad-rich, but if I provide value I do not see why I cannot be paid for it this way.

I did not get any complaints about such ad placing, so I will continue placing ads this way.

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What he does with that money is another kettle of fish which has no real bearing on the questions he asked.

Goals, strategies, life purpose…there are important differences.

Adsense can also serve banner images. It’s not just Adsense here but Adwords as well. Why are people paying to have their ads displayed only for searches related to their niche?

There’s nothing complex or unique about Google’s advertising system.

This entire argument that Eric’s audience are themselves bloggers is extremely counter-intuitive. I am a blogger, I have cheap web hosting with unlimited domains why would I click on the GoDaddy advert? I also happen to have Thesis so there goes that advert. Thesis is a highly flexible, premium theme, I’m not likely to click on the other two premium theme ads. That’s 4 out of 6 ads completely wasted on me (HostGator falls into the same category as GoDaddy).

Still not convinced? Create a web page, throw in some adsense and irrelevant affiliate products. I’d be willing to wager you make more money a month from adsense than you do from those ads.

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