People get into the blogging network for many reasons, the majority being either the love of writing, or the want of money. Most  beginner bloggers slap ads onto their blog as soon as they get it hoping to make the quick buck, or embrace the disillusioned dream of blogging being easy money.

However is something like this worth it?With a small if any userbase at all your clickthrough rate is likely very low and you will be making very low amounts of money if any. So is it still beneficial to have these ads up cluttering your site?

Ads can provide structure to a site if they are directly designed to be a part of the layout, and as such your site may feel empty and bare-bones without them. However this pertains only to specific themes that have special slots built for ads that would appear “empty” without them. More times than not ads are so greedily pasted all over the page that it looks cluttered and the focus of the content has been completely lost. The users attention is taken away from the content and is dazed by the onslaught of ads which sends him running away for the sake of his eyes. In proportion I think it’s ok to put maybe 1 advertisement up if your just starting off. Your not going to be making much money anyway, so your focus should be on attracting visitors through superior content and layout in the hopes of setting yourself up for the future to potentially earn revenue.

So is it really worth advertising on a new blog? Should beginner bloggers keep them to provide structure, or should they ditch them until they have an established userbase?