Follow me on my ad(sense)venture

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I’ve been developing a few new sites recently, so I thought I’d blog the process.

Follow me as I develop my next site, from keyword research, design, adsense implementation etc.

I won’t be giving you the address of the site because:

1. It’s against the Adsense TOS to discuss statistics in relation to a URL
2. I don’t want the statistics skewed by people visiting from this blog.

I’ll link to this site from the (PR 3) home page on a site in a similar niche, and that will be the only inbound link to start with.

Firstly, a few statistics on the sites subject:

• Overture says that there were 22,882 searches on this topic on the Yahoo! network last month
• Overture says that the top bid on the main keyword related to this subject is $1.52
• Google says that the top bid on this subject is $2.46, with the highest related keyword at $13.53

The site will be designed using a template page from the Open Source Web Design site, and will start with five pages of original content

All of the content will be original, written by me, and I’ll try to add one to two pages per week.

I will run two adsense units - one 336×280 at the top, and one link unit on the right hand menu.

So jump on board, and we’ll see how we go.