Do Google ads show up on Opera mini?

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Posted by Felix Okoli on Thursday January 24, 2013 at 16:36:37:

I have a niche website that receives a lot of visitors and is actually making a good amount of income from Google Adsense. I just discovered recently that most of these visitors were Opera Mini users which was contributing about 10,000 monthly page views - a significant number. The question I then asked myself is whether Google ads for content actually displays on my site?

The need to mobilize my site
The website has not yet being optimized for Opera mini as I'm still using desktop ads but from the little number of Firefox and IE users, it is proving to be a profitable niche. Now that I just discovered that I am just generating a lot of page views from Opera mini users, I am at a dilemma on how to best monetize the site so as to at least generate some
income from Opera mini users.

So how do you monetize a site which has a lot of mobile visitors?
I guess a good way would be to start using Ads for mobile.

Using Google ads for mobile
This would work well for a site with a lot of Opera mini users but I would also have to install a sort of browser type type detector or sniffer. Something that tests the browser type in order to know which kind of ads to show. Google adsense does support the idea of browser sniffing and making a website mobile friendly.

I guess I'll also have to make the website mobile friendly without changing any urls so that I don't lose existing traffic. Websites built in php, asp, or even Perl can be easily made mobile friendly and be able to incorporate a sniffing script to switch between mobile and desktop ads depending on the kind of browser that is visiting.

Allowing user generated content
Another way I could make good use of the mobile visitors from Opera mini is by allowing such visitors to create content on my site. I could do this by allowing them to drop comments, ask questions and start discussions.

Conclusion
I'm hoping that my income from adsense would improve when I make that niche site mobile friendly so that I convert the existing traffic to money by mobilizing it.

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