One of the simplest things you can do to start generating some revenue is to install Google Adsense on your website. But there are some criteria you need to meet before Google will accept you into their program.
How to Avoid Getting Rejected by the AdSense Program
First off, Google will reject sites devoted to drugs, pornography, or gambling. They will also reject personal pages, sites with excessive advertising or other content-targeted or text-based ads, incentives for clicking on the keywords, profanity, or hate of any sort. You should read Google's Program Policies before you apply.
You should also give your site the once-over to see if it meets Google's requirements so you don't get rejected. Use this checklist:
- Your site should have at least 20 pages before you consider applying. If you can't put 20 pages together, take a look here for some content creation ideas.
- Your site should offer high-quality information rather than being a sales pitch for some product or other.
- If you get less than 50 to 100 unique vistors a day to your site, you might be better off waiting until you do. Google may reject you due to the low traffic if for no other reason.
- Make sure the links on your website are working! It's common for some links to become dud as the sites they link to are taken off the internet or because web addresses are changed.
- Make your site easy to navigate. Think about using a 3-Tier structure: Home page, secondary pages accessed from your navigation links and tertiary pages which are only accessed from your secondary pages.
- Make sure your site doesn't deal with one of Google's forbidden topics (see above).
Providing you meet all these criteria, you should have no problem signing up with Google. If you're not that familiar with Adsense, it's worth your while taking the tour.
You only need to apply once, no matter how many websites you have. Once you're accepted, you can add Adsense ads to as many pages on those websites as you want.
OK, So You've Been Accepted Into Adsense - Now What?
It's time to start adding Adsense ads onto your pages. This article isn't about how you go about doing that. There are many sources available, but two that I've used successfully for my own sites are:
Or you can look for other Google Adsense helper products here:
The nice thing about Google Adsense is that once you've set up a page (and are happy with the ad layout), it runs on autopilot and at the end of each month, you collect your check.
How much you make depends on the number of visitors your pages get, how frequently they click on the ads and the amount Google pays for each click (which depends on the subject of the ad and how much the advertiser is willing to pay).
In a sense, it's money for nothing and at the very least, it's a way for you to cover the hosting fees for your website. Don't be discouraged if earnings start out low; it can take a while for things to ramp up, but it is possible to get a couple of hundred dollars a month this way without too much effort!
Once again, these two resources are defintitely worth digesting and putting into practice:
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What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense! by Joel Comm (Joel is very approachable if you have any questions). This ebook will walk you through installing your ads and provides tips and techniques for making the ads work better for you.
- Adsense Videos An excellent step-by-step video tutorial course from Michael Cheney that explains how to get the most out of Adsense on your website.
You should also read these two articles: Make Money With Adsense and How To Make Money With Google Adsense for
more information about monetizing your webpages with Google Adsense.
