Undoubtedly, you’ve heard about Google’s AdSense to make money on the internet, and you are thinking about giving it a go. This article will give you an intro to Google Adsense and why it is one of the best options to start making money online.
Google Adsense: one of the easiest ways to make money blogging.
The answer is a definite yes: Google Adsense is a great way to make money online. You could always have some other banner on your site, or even use some search of affiliate ad program and that would probably make you some money, given of course that your site enjoys a healthy amount of visitors. However with affiliate marketing, it is expected that the visitor from your website completes a sale before you are remunerated.
With Google Adsense, the ads change depending on the content of your page. Also, you are paid per click regardless of if the user buys anything or not once they click on the ad.
What you need to think about is the size of the ad placement, the shape of the ad placement, and the colors. You don’t have to worry about finding advertisers, finding programs for each specific page, or even keeping all the links up to dates as affiliate programs come and go.
Google, being a search engine company, has managed to write scripts which can scan the content of your page, then scan its own database of Adwords advertisers, then deliver appropriate ads to your page – all in an instant!
If you compare this to banner ads or affiliate links, there is not much comparison. You will need to hunt down multiple affiliate products if your page has multiple topics. Otherwise, you may have non targeted ads and users are less likely to click on non targeted ads.
With Google AdSense that just about never happens: the ads are targeted. The user comes to your site looking for information and the ads displayed are possible answers that the user is looking for.
For many people, there’s also a great problem with finding people to advertise on their site as well. AdSense is clearly the easiest solution available to this problem today. Google Adsense acts as the “broker”. It can search in its database of advertisers and match them with your content.
AdSense is a great advertising program because a lot of thought has went into making it “just work for everyone”. It works great for the people who use AdWords, for the webmasters using AdSense, and most importantly for the visitors of the websites.
What do you need to do from here?
Here are a few steps:
1. You need a website first to put the Ads on. If you have one already, great! If not, then you will need to create one. Some free website providers do not allow you to put ads on there so you will want to look at hosting your own which will cost between $7 and $12 per month.
2. Create your content to be keyword targeted. For any existing content, you will want to consider modifying it to also be keyword targeted. The way to do this is to take the overall meaning of the page, check out Google Adwords keyword tool to find out what keywords people are using to search for content like yours, find keywords with high search volume, and use those keywords in your articles. You will most likely have a “main” keyword to focus on and then many “related” keywords. Use the “main” keyword in the title, intro, and conclusion. Use the “related” keywords throughout the rest of your article.
3. If you have not already, apply for a Google Adsense account. You will need to submit a site for approval so make sure you have a quality website up with quality content.
4. You can now create Adsense “units” and then copy and paste the javascript into your site’s pages.
With commitment and perservearance, anyone can make money on the internet
That is all there is to setting up your sites for Google Adsense. Going forward, you will eventually want to learn about some traffic generation tactics. There are many, and the easiest one is article marketing. As you are already writing articles for your site, you can use those to drive traffic by syndicating them (a.k.a. submitting them) to various article directories. With each article that is submitted you are allowed a “resource box”. This is where you post more information about you and you can post a link to your website. This is one of many effective traffic generation methods.
Just don’t forget, though, that the main idea right now is just to get started. This means getting your site up, getting your content keyword optimized, and getting your Adsense units on your website. So go out there and get started and and you will find it’s quite simple to be making money online with Google Adsense.
