Advice for my new general topics AdSense WebSite

Hi to all

I wanted to ask for your advice and your oppinions for my new AdSense Website. The website address is www.infoseeder.com and it will cover general topics like travel, finance, computing and many more. Do you think that a multi topic website like this is viable and is worth the time to put in? What i had in mind is a smaller version like about.com . I will just add every day 2-3 new topics in that i found interest and categorize the articles in sections.

a.) Do you think that a multi topic website like this is viable and is worth the time to put in?

b.) Is it allowed by Google to have such a site and dont stick to one topic?

c.) Will related ads show up for every page if it is done right ( keyword targeting, SEO etc ) or will AdSense be confused what the specific page covers? Because all articles will be also interconnected

d.) Is it a good strategy to start first to write only for articles that is more likely to have high paying ads served?

d.) Is it allowed to mix the page with other advertising other then adsense? Like AdSense on one page with Amazon affiliate links or other Text Ads or Banners?

And for last do you like the domain name and the logo? I gave to a friend who is a graphic arts designer to create a logo for the website. It symbolizes a man ( Seeder ) who is seeding information thats why its called InfoSeeder. What ya think?

I would be really happy for any recommendation

George

 

I'm doing something similar (on a very small scale). Here's my input:

a) Hmm, perhaps. You may need to collect backlinks to individual categories from related sites, as backlinks to your home page will be rather generic. On the other hand, it's certainly better to diversify with different topics.

b) Not a problem.

c) You should be okay. Make sure that your articles are interlinked with other related articles. Use section targeting intelligently.

d) Concentrate on articles that will bring you traffic, i.e. original and interesting. Once you have the traffic (and SE rankings), then go for higher paying articles. Keep your ad density low to begin with, or you may drive traffic away.

e) You can't mix AdSense with other contextual ad systems, at the same time. This means that you can use an ad rotation system, and you can also have banners, TLA or Amazon.

f) Nice name and logo, but ultimately not important until you become very well known. It may help make the site look more authorative.

Cheers, Cryo.

 

I say, don't go with a multitopic site, create several minisites. You'll quickly see which ones are profitable and popular and which ones aren't. Kill the underperformers and repeat the process again.

 

finance and computing site doesnt mix. better create minisites as adviced.

 

i think sites with more revelant ads make more income. so a site for a special subject would be better.

 

If you use section targetting you will get targetted ads to your content irrespective if it is a general or niche site.

I am personally undecided which is best.

 

I don't see anything wrong with a multi-topic Web site. Many people do this with their personal Web sites and apparently do just fine.

As long as your ads are well targeted, there shouldn't be a problem.

One of the best examples of a multi-topic site I've seen is http://www.komar.org/ and he seems to be doing fairly well according to PR and Alexa.

 

thats what im doing.. multi topic, but im trying to focus it on making each topic a subdomain. so for the business articles you target business.theinfonet.org the main page is what im having a problem with and interlinking.. and legitmate ways to drive traffic to my site.