How To: Fund your website with Google AdSense (Part 1)
If you’ve been doing blog-hopping or even read about certain wealth generating opportunities online, chances are you might have heard of Google’s Adsense program. If you haven’t heard of this, let me tell you this - what if you can technically run a free domain and website host, and even might be getting certain amount of profit on the way? No, I’m not lying. This is proven my so many people around (and of course, after tying it myself).
So, what exactly is Adsense?
To put it in a simple way - Adsense is “Advertising that makes sense”. Yes. You might be already used to seeing web advertisements everywhere, more often than not, these adverts, usually have nothing much to do with the content of the website you’re seeing, which means the chance that the visitors might be interested in the unrelated products are extremely slim.
How adsense does it, is to publish advertisements that is directly related to the content of the website it is on. For example, if you posted an entry in your blog talking about how to take care of your pets, the adsense will probably show adverts related to it - petcare, pet sales, and perhaps any other pet-related resources. Even if the user click on these adverts, they would still be getting relevant information. Isn’t this neat?
Sounds complicated? Maybe, but in reality, implementing adsense is as easy as posting a new entry in a blog. If you frequently do those funny little tests bloggers like to do and paste the results on your blog, chances are you already know how to implement the adsense into your blog. It is the very same way!
How do I get started?
Most people get this part in the wrong order. Before you could apply in the AdSense program, you must already have a running website (or blogs) that have reasonable amount of good content. Ranting about your auntie in 50 posts might not guarantee you will be accepted (yes, Google validate the applicants), but talking about camera and photography constantly will probably get you approved for it.
How do I sign up?
Fill in the information needed. (Note: In this application, you do not want to fake your address or name, because Google sends their cheque addressed to the name and address you supplied).
Approval process might take a day or two. Once you’re approved, you’re ready to go.
Getting Started with AdSense
Go to the AdSense Website and log in with your account email and password. Once you’re logged in, you should see something like this (the values are private and confidental, as outlined by Google, thus I had to blur them out):
Since this will be your first time accessing the adsense page, head on to the second tab - “AdSense Setup“. On this tab, you should see three options, for now, click on “AdSense for Content“, and you would be taken to the page similar to the one shown below:
In this guide, I’m going to use the “Ad Unit” - “Text Ads Only” (because I don’t want Google to display graphical banner on my sites. It’s up to you on which to pick). Click “Continue” and you’ll see a page where you can choose what shape the ad will be, what are the colors, etc. Configure this as you like (I suggest make it look like it’s part of your site - if your site is in black background with orange text, then do the ad colors the same way because this setup have certain advantages).
Once you’re done with the setup, press “Continue” and you should be shown a text box with a code in it:
The next step is pretty much no-brainer, copy all the code given in the box, and paste it in your website (or blog) like how you pasted those quizzes and test results.
Guess what? You’re pretty much done with it!
Frequently Asked Questions
I have a few blogs, do I need to apply the adsense for every single one of them?
You could do that, or you can save yourself alot of time and hassle by just using the same Adsense account - YES! It is not limited to just one blog/website.
Can I click on them ads?
It is strongly not recommended for you to click on your own ads. This might be very tempting, but as far as my experience goes, Google AdSense is a very smart program, so don’t try to be funny. Once they detected you’re trying to fiddle around, they would ban your account, forever!
I’m not getting clicks at all! What’s wrong?
This have something to do on where you put your ads. I will explain this in the second instalment of this article. Stay Tuned.
One final tip : Don’t ever ask your visitors to click on your ads, even with any valid reasons. Let them click on it on their own when theyre interested enough. If you’re not getting any ad hits, meaning theres something wrong with your placement, color or perhaps your website content is not good enough.
Under normal rate of clicks with medicore contents, you can generally cover your hosting cost within a year’s time. So don’t worry about it.
However, if you’re into serious profit from this system, stay tuned. Future instalments will have something very interesting, related to earning from Adsense.
Happy AdSensing!
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Great help for beginners like me. Thanks
Wah. My mom actually commented on your blog. :O *gasps*
Yo bro! great job!!! pls contribute to C2R Malaysia…can you post same thing there?? I would to invite you to give talk on our c2rbasic training.
Whoah, I’m honored O.O!
What kind of basic training is that?
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