A large part of Google's annual turnover comes from its AdSense
advertising program. The Program enables website owners to drop in a
piece of code to their pages that then serves advertisements provided
by Google. It all works dynamically and the adverts that are displayed
based on the content of the page. So if a website owner places the
Google AdSense code on a page about holidays then holiday ads are
delivered onto the page automatically by Google. when people click on
one of the ads - the advertiser gets a visitor, Google can charge a
rate for the clickthrough and the website owner who is serving the ad
gets a share of this revenue. But there may be trouble ahead for
Google ads, according to sources at CNET News, Yahoo! is planning a
very similar service to challenge Google's. The two search giants have
been up against each in the search advertising arena already but it is
only now that Yahoo! seems poised to launch a monopoly-breaking
attempt on Google's AdSense program. Do it too soon and you risk
deterring visitors from staying on your website. Do it too late and
you'll find that when you DO finally implement it people might not
have seen it coming and they may leave your site in droves!. The best
policy to adopt is, just like Google, to focus on RELEVANCE. Don't
bombard your visitors with advertisements that are totally unrelated
to their needs or interests or totally separate to the content you
provide on your website.