AdSense and Competitors

I have a PR7 Russian/English translation site. This site comes up number
1-5 for all major search terms in all major search engines. I am reading
about the AdSense program and thinking of possibly getting into it. The
only question I still have is this: Google will be placing "relevant ads" on
my site, so I will be, in fact, sending my hard earned visitors straight to
my competitors. Am I gaining or rather losing here, I wonder?..

Mark Shell wrote:

I have a PR7 Russian/English translation site. This site comes up number
1-5 for all major search terms in all major search engines. I am reading
about the AdSense program and thinking of possibly getting into it. The
only question I still have is this: Google will be placing "relevant ads"
on my site, so I will be, in fact, sending my hard earned visitors
straight to
my competitors. Am I gaining or rather losing here, I wonder?..

That's a very good point, but I think it greatly depends on where and how
you place the adverts.

If your main query page contains words like "Russian" and "Translation"
several times, adverts to accompany that page are likely to be competitors.
If, however, you place AdSense in the results page, then the keywords
identified will vary. If somebody looks for Poodles, then perhaps adverts
will correspond to dogs. Make sure you know which keywords will dominate.
Test it.

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com

Mark Shell wrote:

The
only question I still have is this: Google will be placing "relevant ads" on
my site, so I will be, in fact, sending my hard earned visitors straight to
my competitors. Am I gaining or rather losing here, I wonder?..

You can provide a list of domains that you don't want ads placed for.
Easier said than done, in my experience.

RFM

Thanks Igor. BTW, I was trying to contact you before with an offer to
exchange our PR7 highly relevant links, but couldn't find your e-mail
address on your cooldictionary.com site. If you are interested, could you
pls drop me an e-mail using "admin at language-usa.com". Thx.