Yesterday Steem inc announced that google ads will be on steemit and we can finally see it.
To see ads you need to open browser in incognito mode or just log out from steemit and you will see ads.
I dont think its best place for ads, because if there is a lot of comments nobody will scroll down to bottom . ( i think its ok to show at top or just under the post or in side of post)
Now lets move to why its important to have ads on steemit.
Steemit before had model that the more people use steemit the more company lose money,because need more nodes and more money to operate them. Its super bad strategy for long term as we can see and ads can give some profit, because more people on site more money ads will bring, so its important to have source of income except to sell steem tokens , because price of steem is very low right now, but expenses to run nodes high.
Now lets discuss why its for non logged in steem users, because more than 50% of steem visitors are from search engines (google,bing,yahoo) and they are random guys who came to read some articles and they will see ads, so we as steemit users will not see them and not will be disturbed.
Here some stats from similarweb.com of steemit traffic.
13 million visits per month:
50+% of them from search engines:
countries top5:
if we exclude venezuela and india then its quite expensive clicks from this countries, plus in top10 are netherlands,south korea and so on. So clicks can be up to few $ per click.
With this steemit inc will finally have first source of income !
What you think of google ads? do you think it will help steemit inc to survive in this bear market? What else steemit need to do to have more flows of income?
