We've been burning through a staggering amount of page views these past few days and a couple BlogCadre users have convinced me to give AdSense a try. Hence the ads that are now running the top and left of the site.

I started running AdSense on virtuoffice, but it's not a particularly large site. With 100-200 times the page views already, I sort of expected BlogCadre to outperform, but it hasn't so far.

What's going on? I expect there may be some exaggeration, but some people claim to be making an incredible amount of money on their sites.

For starters, most of the ads aren't incredibly targeted at the moment. I suspect I just have to be patient here and things will improve. It normally takes a little while for relevant ads to stabalize.

I am a little curious how things will work out on a site with such a wide variety of topics. Right now, most of our traffic is from gamers, but this is bound to change over time. Gamers don't click ads, but they do bring visitors and an abundance of incoming links, so it's a bit of a tradeoff.

Who click ads? What industries pay well for advertising? I have some assumptions, but I really don't know for sure. As BlogCadre continues to grow, I imagine we'll find out.

So keep tuned. I'm sure I'll be writing about this more very soon.

Have some AdSense experience yourself? Share a secret or two in the comments.

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