A good point…

As many of you know, I have begun to write a series of articles regarding how you can make a little extra money for online and beat the economy. You can see the first article in this series here:

http://everlovetech.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-make-few-extra-bucks-on-line-in.html

A reader of my blog on another web site where and syndicating this blog left a comment. The comment was made on activerain.com, a popular real estate web site aimed at real estate professionals. This particular reader was a real estate agent and made the comment " why would I want to advertise for the realtor down the street?".

His concern make a lot of sense, so I thought that I would clarify my thoughts on the matter now. If your website or blog is promoting a product or service it may not make a lot of sense to advertise a competing product or service. Although, I have noticed advertisements for satellite TV on cable and vice versa. I think enough your visitor is not impressed enough with your website, services and other offerings to do business with you you might as well make a couple of dollars on their way out.

If you are offering our clients and customers a square deal, most of them will recognize that and wild horses couldn't drag them away. Such is the lure and power of a bargain. By offering good value and backing it up with excellent service has been a formula for success for centuries.

However if your visitor isn't interested it is a show of good faith and professional courtesy to direct that visitor to a website that may be more useful to them. It is a fringe benefit that you can get paid for doing so. Face it, if your visitor is going to click on an ad you have basically already lost them anyway.

Even in the case of stiff competition; isn't it nice to know that you have lightened a competitors pockets by a few dollars when a visitor (who was probably on their way out anyway) clicks on that competitors ad. Whether your competitor makes a sale or not doesn't matter.

All of this is of course assuming that you're going to advertise on your main blog or website. When I started writing this series I was thinking more along the lines of starting blogs or websites about things that are an interest to you rather than a vocation. If you blog about a hobby or something else you are passionate about your likely to have a lot of material and knowledge that other people will find useful and interesting.

If you are Blogging about something other than your profession, it doesn't really matter what ads are served. For instance, if your account and as a profession, but you love to fly small airplanes you can blog about that. Whatever ads are displayed on your blog will most likely be about flying. Therefore there is no worry about sending traffic to your competition, or losing traffic in general. In all cases, the traditional way that people do business, is and forever will be, changed. The people that will do well usually are the ones that can adapt to whatever changes present themselves.

Keep an eye out for my tutorial on using google AdSense for profit.

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