Following the advice from Shane Pike I am dropping the idea of earning anything from AdSense in the first months of blogging. I removed most of the AdSense units on Blogs’n'Bloggers and on both of my Apple Blogs (English and Russian). Try to find the ones I left ). I believe they blend well and do not affect user’s experience at all. Please let me know if it is not so.

I believe Shane’s comment that pushed me to make the decision will be helpful to others too, so here it is:

Michael, you’ll have lots of people offer you “great ways” to increase your revenue, but ignore them. Take off the AdSense ads and blog heads-down for 3 months–creating at least one great post a day on each of your blogs. Spend some time each day, too, doing some free things to get more traffic. If you do both those things, you’ll easily pass the $1,000 threshold in just the remaining three months–if not in Month 4 alone. Resist the temptation to monetize too early, though, You’ll sabotage yourself before you ever get started…

Oh, and switch to full posts for your feed. Until you prove that your content is worth clicking through to every single time, people are not going to stay subscribed to a partial feed. Heck, I even unsubscribed from ProBlogger when he switched to partial feeds for awhile.

See this post for more details.

Comment comes from my 1000 Dollars Milestone post.

BTW, Shane’s comment is a great example of long term blog promotion. His advice was very useful to me, and I believe to others as well. He gave a link to his 2 blogs, which I certainly checked and really enjoyed. And he got a link love from me in this post ).

Thanks, Shane!

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