{"id":9267,"date":"2019-01-30T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/?p=9267"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:46:36","slug":"when-should-i-put-ads-on-my-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/blog\/when-should-i-put-ads-on-my-site\/","title":{"rendered":"When Should I Put Ads On My Site?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\r\n<article class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-beige has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-772205c6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained is-style-beige--1\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\r\n<header class=\"wp-block-group c-breadcrumbs aligngrid has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-61973aa6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<header class=\"wp-block-group aligngrid is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d68226ec wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\" style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediavine-dev.d1.moderntribe.qa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chevron-left2.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-542\" style=\"aspect-ratio:9\/16;object-fit:contain;width:auto;height:20px\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"is-style-small is-style-small--2\"><a href=\"\/blog\/\">Back to Blog<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/header>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity aligngrid\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\"\/>\r\n<\/header>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-default has-neutral-20-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"><div class=\"aligncenter aligncenter wp-block-tribe-terms\"><ul class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__list\"><li class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__term\"><span class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__link t-category\">General Blogging<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h1 style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\">When Should I Put Ads On My Site?<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9b38c6d9 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><div style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-author-name\">The Mediavine Team<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date has-10-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2019-01-30T12:58:52-06:00\">January 30, 2019<\/time><\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<p>You did it! You started a blog, and you\u2019re even posting on a regular schedule. You\u2019re starting to see a little bit of traffic, but what\u2019s next? When are you a \u201creal\u201d blogger?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>For a lot of folks, that title comes when you finally start making a little money from your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I\u2019m here to tell you that you\u2019re a real blogger from the moment you hit publish on your first blog post.<strong> There is no reason to put ads on your site to be &#8220;official!&#8221;<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-blogging.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sitting on a love seat and using a laptop computer.\" class=\"wp-image-8301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-blogging.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-blogging-436x300.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-blogging-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-blogging-669x460.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/woman-blogging-735x505.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of people don\u2019t know this, but we didn\u2019t put ads on our own sites for years after they began. Food Fanatic didn\u2019t have ads for at least two years after we launched it, and was in the hundreds of thousands sessions a month club before we put ads anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did we wait so long?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Because you only get one chance at a first impression<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s no arguing that ads can detract from user experience. That\u2019s just a fact of life. We do everything we can to make ads suck less, but you know&#8230; they\u2019re still ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we waited. To build up that loyal audience and keep them coming back. To get them to pay attention to our newsletter signup, and engage with the content, and to keep the site running as fast as possible for search engine rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we launched ads, it was with the (back then) all new Mediavine platform. It\u2019s exciting to say that we didn\u2019t take nearly the user experience hit we <em>could<\/em> have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"1102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mediavine-Pins-with-Photos-7.png\" alt=\"When Should I Put Ads On My Site? (via Mediavine)\" class=\"wp-image-9294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mediavine-Pins-with-Photos-7.png 735w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mediavine-Pins-with-Photos-7-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mediavine-Pins-with-Photos-7-307x460.png 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-should-i-put-ads-on-my-site\">When should I put ads on my site?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When the return income outweighs the loss in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/seo-and-ads-fact-vs-fiction-and-how-mediavine-optimizes-both-together\/\">user experience<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Mediavine, we feel that point is around 50,000 sessions a month. That\u2019s the reason it\u2019s where our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/mediavine-application-process-ga4\/\">joining threshold lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re adding advertisements to your site, they have to be worth it. And before that point, the reliability of regular income from ads is not there, and certainly not worth any loss in user experience or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/improve-site-speed-and-gpsi-score\/\">site speed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogger-filming-a-video.jpg\" alt=\"A woman vlogging.\" class=\"wp-image-7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogger-filming-a-video.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogger-filming-a-video-441x294.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogger-filming-a-video-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogger-filming-a-video-689x460.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/blogger-filming-a-video-735x491.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-about-getting-my-audience-used-to-ads\">What about getting my audience \u201cused to\u201d ads?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d argue that your audience already is if they surf the web at <em>all<\/em>, and they\u2019re not going to even blink when advertisements appear on <em>your<\/em> site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertising has become ubiquitous to reading websites on phones, tablets and desktops. Just like changing themes \u2014 a few folks might notice, and one or two might even say something. But the majority of your audience won\u2019t even realize something is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking blogging full time is a goal for a lot of people. The idea of that works itself right into our mission statement; <em>building sustainable businesses for content creators<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re long term thinkers around here, and that includes choosing the right time to add display advertising to your website. Work hard to build your audience until it makes sense. It will pay off in dividends when you do add those ad units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/ads-and-affiliate-marketing\/\">affiliate income<\/a> is a great thing to master, and so is building relationships with brands you\u2019d like to work with in a sponsored capacity in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/woman-using-computer.jpg\" alt=\"A woman typing on a laptop computer.\" class=\"wp-image-7577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/woman-using-computer.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/woman-using-computer-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/woman-using-computer-307x460.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Focus on your content plan and finding your audience. Building traffic takes time, and trying to throw ads into the mix too soon might slow down your site (remember, we\u2019re the only company that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/lazy-loading-ads-mediavine-ads-load-200-faster\/\">lazy loads ads<\/a>!), cause readers to bounce away too quickly (because of that site load time), and make it an uphill battle to create the audience you want your site to keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean you shouldn\u2019t already be thinking about ways to optimize your site for ads, though! We make a lot of recommendations around here. Everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/increase-font-size-and-increase-seo-rpm-along-with-it\/\">font size<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/increase-your-line-height-and-improve-rpm-and-readability\/\">line height<\/a>&nbsp;to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/shorter-sentences-and-paragraphs-for-larger-rpms\/\">paragraph length<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of it is based on best practices gleaned from places like <a href=\"https:\/\/material.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google\u2019s style guide<\/a> and years of research. Making sure you\u2019re optimized now, as you launch your site, means adding Mediavine ad placements will be seamless, and you\u2019ll make good money out of the gate, because all your content is already optimized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that our blog and <a href=\"https:\/\/help.mediavine.com\">help files<\/a> are always here for you to use, whether you work with us yet or not. 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