Monetize Your Website With Google Adsense
Do any kind on search on http://www.google.com and you'll get a list of websites that match the search terms you type in. But you'll also get a number of ads down the right side of the screen that relate to your search terms as well. These are Google Adsense ads and they're created by advertisers the world over to promote their products and services.
Google is, in fact, broken into two networks - the search network and the content network. The search network is what's used to display the results of any searches you do within Google. The content network is all the websites out there in the internet that display Google Adsense ads (you see them everywhere these days).
Google Adsense
Adsense ads are contextual. That means that Google analyses the content of a webpage and decides what ads to display (so the webmaster doesn't have any control over what ads are displayed). You can specify a list of web address to ignore so that competitors' ads don't appear on your pages, but that's the only thing you can control.
Anyone who includes Google Adsense ads on their webpages gets paid a fee for each click. Those fees vary, depending on what the advertisers bid for their keywords. Most ads get between $0.05 and $0.20 per click. Google won't say what percentage of a keyword bid (what the advertiser pays to have his ad shown) is paid to a webmaster, but it's generally accepted to be about 50%. The highest bid for a keyword was $86.00, so that would have generated about $43.00 from one click alone!
Keywords
Finding such high-paying keywords is an art in itself and there are internet marketers who research these keywords and build webpages around them to get the the clicks and they make a very good full-time living from it as well.
For the general webpage, there are guides that will advise you on the best way to display Google Adsense ads on your pages in order to maximise the clicks you get from Adsense and therefore increase your earnings.
Using Google Adsense
One of the simplest things you can do to start generating some extra 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.
Adsense earnings for Aug. 2006. What could you do with an extra couple of hundred
dollars each month? Some figures blurred due to Google's policy on displaying
information.
How to Avoid Getting Rejected by the AdSense Program
it's free to join. Beware, though, 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).
You only need to apply once, no matter how many websites you have. Once you're accepted, you can add Google Adsense ads to as many pages as you want on those websites.
OK, So You've Been Accepted Into Adsense - Now What?
It's time to start adding Google 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:
- 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. It's the Google Adsense Bible.
- Adsense Videos If you want to be taken by the hand by a Google Adsense guru and shown, step by step, what you need to do to make Adense work best for you, then these videos from Michael Cheney are very highly recommended. Cheney has achieved top spot in the ClickBank Google Adsense product ratings and you don;t get there without really knowing your stuff.
- The Google Adsense Jerk Not from the The Rich Jerk" but from another equally smug, obnoxious and self-satisfied jerk, the information provided is free if you want to wait as it comes in over five days. If you want all the information immediately, then you have to pay (I recommend that you don't!). If you can put up with the smugness, the information provided is actually quite valuable.
Or you can look for other Google Adsense helper products here:
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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 or more a month this way without too much effort!
Below, you'll find a list of the best products in both the Adwords and Adsense categories. All are highly recommended, having being researched and tested. Those products that didn't make the grade have been excluded.
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If you already have a number of webpages or have some time to work on generating them, the advice in this eBook can help you to earn significantly more than you're likely to figure out how to earn without it, even if you already have an AdSense account and have done some optimization of your ads. If you don't see results within 30 days, you can get a full refund. |
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If you're all-at-sea about Google Adsense, these videos will take you by the hand through the process of implementing Adsense. They're an over the shoulder look at how a successful Adsense entrpreneur sets up his own sites and contain invaluable advice, tips and techniques for the beginner and more seasoned marketers. |
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Now you can capture more of Joel Comm's insightful teachings in a Limited Edition Two-Hour Course titled Uncovering the Secrets of Google AdSense. This special seminar kit features Joel Comm (Dr. AdSense) as he is grilled by Internet Marketing Expert, Rick Butts (of Blog and Ping fame!) Including two CD-Roms with 2 hours of incredible content and a binder featuring a complete transcript of the course, this set is a must-have for any serious AdSense student seeking to increase their income! Uncovering the Secrets of Google AdSense is a complete course containing the latest strategies for multiplying your AdSense wealth. |
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