How Much Money Can I Make with Google Adsense?

Anyone who is taking part in Google AdSense program is asking this question - how much lovely bucks will it give to me?

Surely don't expect that Google will tell you how much money was paid by AdWords advertisers for each click that was made on your site. Why? Because Google decided that this way it will be better. We can love it, we can hate it - but this is how Google decided to do that

Those who do not like - can simply not put AdSense codes on their pages and hit the big Google into the very heart No really, if about 30% of the sites in the net take AdSense ads away, this will be a serious jab to Google, but as they keep using the lovely ads - this is the best proof that everybody is happy.

When you are going to estimate your future profits with Google AdSense program you need to take 2 factors into account:

- your traffic volume

- your traffic source

Volume is the amount of people who come to your site or blog, come on a regular basis.

Source is from where these people come. It is proven by real case experience that people who come from search engines are very good clickers on the AdSense ads.

Then it all comes down to how you position the ads on your pages and what click through rate (CTR) you will have. 5% CTR is considered to be very good. Over 10% CTR - something you can boast about.

And the last thing to consider - your niche. Surely advertiser in investments, loans, mortgages, health insurances, real estate are paying more per click than cheaper niches. But you can compensate it with getting plugged into less competitive niche.

Now, let's do the calculations.

You have 1,000 unique visitors per day to your blog about mortgage (tough niche, by the way). Out of them you know by your traffic stats that 500 come from search engines. You also know that for the traffic which comes from search engines you have 5% CTR. And you know that averagely and advertiser in this niche is paying $1.00

Then it means your average profits for the part of traffic which comes from search engines should be:

500 people X $1.00 X 0.05 = $25.00 (daily)

Surely these are averages, life is more flexible and unexpected. But now you can think in terms of some figures.

Submit Website To Search Engine - Search Engine Submission

If you want to get Search Engine traffic to your site, then you have to tell Search Engines that your site exists. There are thousands of Search Engines there on the web, but the reality is that only few of them are used by web surfers.

Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Ask (formerly Ask Jeeves) are the most popular names in Search Engine world. Forgot about any other Search Engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN are the three main Search Engines at the moment. All the other Search Engines are either their portals or drives search results from these three.

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For example, Netscape is driving his data from Google; AltaVista drives his search from Yahoo etc. If you are ranking first for you keyword in Google you will also get no.1 position for that term in Netscape.com.

There are many Search Engines which are getting feed by these Major three Search Engines and there is no need to go and submit in all the Search Engines accepts these three.

Let me tell you one more thing here these three Search Engines drives 98% of overall Search Engine traffic and other Search Engines just provide two percent of it.

Submit your site to this Major Three

Once you thought your site is ready with all your pages submit it here:

For Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/

For Yahoo: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

For MSN: http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

You have to be patient for few weeks, or even month for your site to appear in Google and Yahoo. MSN normally crawls it at fast rate.

Get listed Easily

Let me tell you the easiest and fastest way to get crawl in these major three.

Get a link on a high Page Rank site, which Search Engines crawls more often and your site will also be crawled with this site. This is fastest and easiest way to get listed in all major Search Engines. Please read our Built Link Popularity article for your help.

Don’t Keep Submitting Your Sites To Search Engines

If you don’t know how to link with a High PR site and want to submit your site manually to search engines do it, but don’t do it again and again. Submitting it anxiously again and again can ban your site from these Search engines.

Is Your Site Is Not Getting Listed?

If your site is not getting listed in search engines, look what you have done wrong with your site. Did you copy the content, linking with bad neighborhood etc. Correct whatever you have done wrong.

If you are not getting indexed specially in Google, read their webmasters guidelines, and follow what they are telling you to do and what not.

What About the remaining Other Search Engines?

As I told you before other search engines either show results from major three or they are there portals. So when you get ranking in major three you will also get traffic from this search engines as well.

Five Ways to Drive Traffic to your Blog

When you blog for money you need to create your own content (and lots of it!), implement advertisement programs like Google AdSense and WidgetBucks, and last but not least – you need traffic.



In our offline lives we dread it, but online we embrace it. I want to give you 5 ways to start driving traffic to your blog today. With a little time and patience, you will slowly start to increase your viewer ship.

(In no particular order)

5.) Post comments on other blogs.

Blogs are everywhere – there’s certainly not a shortage of them. You should have no problem finding other bloggers in your niche that are popular and interesting. Bookmark those that you like, follow their topics daily, and if you find something that sparks your interest – comment.

Become a participating voice in the community. The more interesting your comments are, the more likely your peers will follow you to your blog. And who knows – you might stand out among the crowd and be recognized by the author, which can spin off into better opportunities.

4.) Register with blog networks like: Technorati, BlogCatalog, and MyBlogLog

It’s important that you get your blog out there for others to see. You can start the process by submitting to search engines, but that’s just the beginning. Technorati, BlogCatalog, and MyBlogLog are just a few of the high profile blog networks on the web. Register with them, network with other people in your releated area, and get your word out.

When you register with these services remember a couple of things:

1.) Create a detailed profile. Let people know a little bit about you and draw them in. Without that personal interaction people may flee quickly.

2.) Tag your blog properly. Tags are very important – they’re usually one or two word descriptions of your blog. So for example my blog would fall under categories like: Money, Business, and Finance. Dig around the specific service and look for popular tags and try to use those for your blog. It allows people who are interested in these topics to easily find your site.


3.) Register with several forums.

Do a Google search for forums that are related to your niche and register. Try to be an active voice in the community. People will flock to you if you’re interesting. Not only that but it allows you to find out what others are doing and what makes them appealing.

When you register with a forum, make sure to fill out the profile, similar to the blogging services. And equally as important – make a signature that is a direct link to your blog. Your signature is shown in every post that you make – helping you gain visibility. This is all the more reason to create thought provoking discussions.


2.) Social Bookmarking and Article Submission.

Social networking, bookmarking, and article submissions are all the rage today – don’t let it pass you by. Some of the major networks include delicious, Furl, and of course, Digg. These sites will allow you to tag, bookmark, and submit articles that you think are interesting. What’s more interesting than your own work? People should know about it so go spread the word.


1.) StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon really falls into tip #2, but I decided to break it away from the pack because it provides quicker results. Like the rest of the social networking sites, you create a profile and network with others. But what makes StumbleUpon so darn unique, is that you can “stumble” thousands of sites that you’re interested in by the click of a button. So what does that mean for you? Well, you can stumble your own site. By doing this you get into the Stumble rotation, and any people that you network with can stumble across it as well.

In my experience StumbleUpon can bring great surges of traffic for short periods of time. Due to the nature of the service, you’re likely to get overlooked more than not; however, those that do stop – tend to stay. And if they like the site, they can rate it and review it for all the friends in their network to see. Are you getting the picture here? Your viewer ship has the potential to explode!

As with most things in life, there’s no silver bullet for getting traffic. It takes a lot of research, careful planning, networking, patience, and time. If you have what it takes and start using my recommendations, you will definitely start to see an increase. Hopefully that increase in traffic will help you blog for money.

Proxy Adsense Optimization

what is a proxy? 
 

A proxy is a tool website that offers every Internet user the possibilty to acces a websites using a different computer than the one he is using to connect to the Internet.

Proxies are extremely helpful when you try to access websites that your school, company or even government block. Proxies are thus very popular amongst students who use them to access myspace from school because if they try to do so directly by typing myspace.com, the school network will block the connection. When using a proxy, the school network can’t see anything as only the URL of the proxy is visible, it looks like the student is just browsing an unknown website. The same applies to countries like China where the government keeps citizen from reaching some unwanted websites so they use proxies to reach the Internet without limitations.


Given how they work, proxies eat up a lot of resources on a server (mainly bandwidth) and so require a high end hosting in addition to the fact that most hosts won't allow you to have a proxy on a shared hosting plan. This will of course cost you a lot more than a classic content website because you will have to get a VPS or a Dedicated server and push you to try and monetize them as aggressively as possible to make up for your expenses.

Now let's see what strategies you can implement to make the most of your traffic using AdSense. 
AdSense optimization strategies for proxies 
Strategy #1: Lay out variation


As proxies are a valuable service to many people, you are most likely to have returning visitors. A returning visitor will very quickly get used to your AdSense placement and avoid clicking your ads or even looking at them. His eyes will immediately point towards the url input box where he can type the desired url and start surfing.


To try and keep your visitors paying for the service by clicking your ads, the first solution I advise you to use is to try and have more than one lay out served to your visitors randomly.

This mean when a visitor comes to your proxy, he can’t guess which one of the 4 or 5 (or even more) page lay outs he is to get thus pushing him to rescan the whole page to find the URL input box. While scanning the page, chances are high that your AdSense ads are seen and clicked.
Strategy #2: Strategic placement


Ask yourself, what is the most important part of my proxy’s homepage for my visitors? The answer is simple, the URL input box.

Because it is the most important area of your page, this is exactly where you should concentrate your monetization efforts by placing your ad units and link units as closely as possible. However, you should remain very careful about that to avoid violating the AdSense TOS by producing too many accidental clicks. Units should be placed in a way that pushes people to see them not click them accidentally.
Strategy #3: Use picture ads


Proxies are mostly used by teenagers so you should adapt your advertising strategy to their specific interests. I don’t mean the content of the ads because google takes care of that automatically but I mean that an image or video add is way more attractive to a youngster than a text one can ever be.

So you need to make sure you enable images and videos to show on your ads.
Strategy #4: Increase your pageviews per visitor 

As you already know, AdSense doesn't allow you to put ads on frames. So you can't use AdSense on any of your proxified pages. This leaves you with your homepage as your unique revenue source from AdSense.

A very nice way to try and increase your earnings, is to push your visitors to see more pages with your AdSense ads on them of course. For instance, you could offer a link to a page containing a selection of websites to visit or a complete list of your other (specialized) proxies... anything that could have your visitor read another page before he starts navigating.

If you want to be more agressive and take the risk of loosing some of your visitors, you could make the URL input box unavailble on the homepage so that the internaute has to visit another page to find it. He will then spend some time before understanding that the input box is somewhere else which will dramatically increase your chances of getting some clicks and also the pageviews.

Revenue Sharing Explained

Revenue sharing is typically used in "community websites". A community website is a website that has a loyal readership regularly updating and renewing the website's content. Discussion boards or Forums are the best example to explain how revenue sharing works, as they are the most common form of community websites.

As a registered member of a forum, you get the right to access all the services it offers (ask for help, help others, send private messages, search the forum.).

To motivate their members, forum owners used to thank them by different flattering techniques (become a moderator, have your name on the best members' list, become known as an authority in a given area.) but when AdSense became a popular monetisation system used by almost every Internet advanced user (typically the people participating in forums), some clever forum owners thought the motivation would be even greater if the best members could benefit financially from their participation in the forum. Revenue Sharing was born.

Even though the terms may vary from a revenue sharing forum to another, the principle is the same: Every forum member is asked to give his AdSense publisher ID then, after fulfilling some "active member conditions", a percentage of the ads displayed on the forum would be for him i.e. displayed with his AdSense Publisher ID. If the advertising gets clicked, the member earns money directly in his AdSense account. This is called Revenue Sharing because the forum owner shares his website's earnings by sharing his advertising space.

To have your ads shown, you may be asked to reach a certain number of posts, start popular threads, be a member for a defined period of time.

As you can see, this a "performance based" strategy that ultimately benefits both the forum owner and his community: the forum owner gets loyal and active members making his content richer and up to date which will end up increasing his website's earnings and the forum members get a share of the money they helped make in addition to the help and services they get from the forum. This is a great win-win situation.
Some revenue sharing websites:

The fact that Revenue Sharing is a win-win strategy helped make it very popular among internet users and many websites are now using it. We have listed below - and commented on - some popular revenue sharing websites to help you make your choice if you want to get started making money from revenue sharing. We will keep updating the list as we discover new interesting websites.

However, we would like you to know you shouldn't expect to make much money out of revenue sharing as it will hardly ever earn you more than a few dollars a month (we have tried it!).
digitalPoint forums

DP Forums are among the most popular and usefull webmaster forums I know on the net. After registering and posting at least 50 times, you are allowed to enter you AdSense ID and get started sharing revenue.
For threads you start, your AdSense client ID will be used 50% of the time when the thread is viewed as a thread.
Your AdSense client ID will be used 50% of the time when the thread is viewed by post and you made the post of course.

As you can see, the only way you can have your ads shown is by starting threads. In about two weeks, I participated normally (two or three post a day) and two or three threads started. Here are the results : 322 impressions and 2 clicks earning a huge 25 cents! I also got some CPM impressions which got me 2 additional cents.

Improve click Through Rate

Over time, CTR diminishes naturally as Internet users get more and more used to the ads and less attracted by them. This is exactly what happened to Image banners that used to have something like 5% CTR and that are nowadays performing less than 0.5% ! 

AdSense sponsored links are successful today because they managed to come up with an innovative way of advertising through link like ads. This success is mainly measured, though not exclusively, by a high CTR ranging from 0.5% to 20% in some cases, the average being around 3 %. Now it is up to you to take advantage of this high optimisation potential. 

We have listed three main ways to improve a website's AdSense click Through Rate: 
Improve CTR using Ad Format 
Improve CTR using Ad Colours 
Improve CTR using Ad Placement

How do I create advanced reports ?

The first thing you are asked to set to your needs is the product data you want to analyse. Below the "choose product" heading, you will find a drop down menu covering all three AdSense products: 
adsense for content 
adsense for search 
refferals 

Once you have choosen the product, you will need to define a date range. You can either use the drop down menu to define a period of time like today, yesterday, las 7 days... or define your own customised date range like from Sept 5 2006 to Oct 31 2006 to see how the Septembre update affected your performances. 

Next you will need to tackle the "Show data by" section. I understand this is quite confusion so I advise you to choose the default criterion which is "Page". However, advanced adsense users must be able to use any additional data provided by google so let's take a look at how the adsense team explains it. I have modified the text to make it a bit clearer. 

Advanced reports provide the option to view your performance by page, ad unit, or individual ad. We've highlighted the differences between each report below. 
Page reports will show an impression every time a user views a page displaying Google ads. We'll only report one page impression no matter how many Google ads are displayed on a page. 
Ad unit reports will show an impression every time a user views a Google ad unit on your page. For example, if a page with one half banner and one vertical banner is viewed once, we'll display two ad unit impressions. 
Individual ad reports will show an impression for each individual ad that's shown in any ad unit (remembre that a single ad unit can contain more than one idividual ad). For example, if a page with one half banner and one vertical banner is viewed once, it will generate three ad impressions. 

The last decision you need to make is choosing between displaying "aggregate data" and "channel data". 
Unless you want a summary of your overall performance on a daily basis or that you have not defined any channels, I think you should opt for "channel data" option that will give you valuable data on the performance of every channel you set up earlier. 
Once you choose "channel data", more options are displayed. This is a little confusing at first but if you are familiar with SQL queries and databases you shouldn't have any difficulty using these options. For others I have tried to list some guidelines: 
select at least one channel you want to analyse 
set grouping to "date" or "channel", avoid using both 
try many combinations till you get what you want 
try to understand the data and you will see what other data you need

Prepare Data for Analysis

To summerise my approach I would say that it is all about "identifying what works and what doesn't to take appropriate actions" . 
Setting up a framework for analysis 

By default, your adsense account will only give basic data about how well your ads are performing. In fact, the data is only grouped by product type and no difference is made between ad units and link units. 
This is really not enough if you are serious about developping your adsense business. 
Using channels 

To figure out what channels to use, you need to ask yourself what data you would like to have. Would you like to know what ad format has the best performance? Would it be better to have an idea about the performance of each section of your site? Are you concerned about where to put your ads (top of the page, bottom, left...)? 
According to your answers you need to use different types of channels. 
- URL related data:
If you have more than one domain (or website) that displays your ads, I highly recommend that you add all of your domains as URL channels to track each one's global performance individually. 
For an indepth analysis of a particular domain, use URL channels to track directories or even pages if these are not too numerous. This will provide an idea about how well every section or page of the website is doing. 
- Ad format related data: 
Some ad formats are known to be more profitable than others. To make sure this is true for your website too, I recommand that you define a custom channel for each format that you use. For example, use "300-250" for small rectangles or simply name the channel "Small rectangle"... 

- Positionning related data: 
Where you place ads on a page is sometimes crutial to their performance level. To track this influence (if there is any) use words like "left", "top", "middle", "text embeded", "in menu"... to define custom channels. 
- Colours related data: 
Colors can also be intersting to track as they can impact the CTR of an ad unit for example. The best choice here is to define custom channels based on the palette you use ("open air", "ink"...). 

Of course, these are just suggestions and you are free to come up with other criteria you find relevant to track.

Optimize your advertising strategy - part 2

Are you in a high paying market?

Refferals have fixed revenues wherase adsense for content varies according to the market. The health market for example, is known for high advertising investments and a single click can pay many dollars. In contrary, a refferal for firefox will never pay you more than 1 dollar as it is clearly stated in the terms of use.

Therefore, it is by far preferable to display ad units or link units when you know you are in a high paying market.

On the opposite, if your average revenue per click is less than 10 cents for a long period of time, then we strongly recommend that you opt for refferals.

Do you have deep knowledge of your visitors?

Some targets are known to click more easily than others. A good example are elderly people who are not used to the internet and the new technologies and will click on your ads because they think they are really part of the site then will lend on another page and be surprised, so they will come back to your site and try another link... they are also fond of the search feature, I heard of à 200% CTR for some sites targeting elederly people !

Now, if you are targeting advanced computer users, do you really think they haven't installed firefox or picasa yet ?

Do you have qualified traffic?

Qualified traffic is vital for Adsense revenues because what makes google ads effective is the fact that they are "highly targeted" and based on your content. If your visitors are really interested in your content (qualified) then they are more likely to click on your ads (actually ad units and link units) since these are related to it.

If your traffic isn't that qualified, then you should probably consider adsense for search or refferals. Adsense for search is recommended since your visitors won't find what they are looking for and will use the search feature more often. Refferals are also indicated in this case because you can display wide target ads like firefox or picasa downloads that will suit almost any visitor.

Do you really recommend the product?

I must say that I am really happy to put adsense refferals on my websites because I know that I am recommeding quality products. This is very important when you are keen on gaining your visitors' trust and building a brand.

Adsense for content isn't as secure, and you may end up displaying ads that will disapoint your visitors (Made for AdSense websites or MFA).

I remembre clicking on an ad about "cheap high quality hosting" that took me to a page with just one written sentence and three adsense blocks!

Now that you have asked yourself all these questions, you are probably more clear about the best adsense strategy for your website - at least for the product mix.

Unfortunately, things do not always go the way they should and the internautes are known to be umpredictable. Experimentation and data feedback is therefore a necessary step we discuss in the following pages.

Optimize your advertising strategy - Part 1

In its AdSense program, google offers an array of products :

Adsense for content

Adsense for search

Refferals

The first critical task (after understanding each product), is to come up with the best possible combination of these products.

Of course, each website is unique and so requires a unique " Advertising strategy " combining AdSense and other advertising techniques. To help define the best AdSense strategy for your website we suggest you try and answer these simple questions :

Do you have many returning visitors ?

This is tipycally the case for a blog or a portal with constantly updated content (news, forums...). If this applies to you, we think you should not rely on refferals to yield much income as they only pay for "a first time install". Once the majority of your readers will have installed the reffered product (firefox, picasa, adwords, adsense subscription...) you won't be getting any more money from these ads.

On the contrary, if you have mostly first time visitors, then refferals can be a good choice.

Where do your visitors come from ?

Again, if you are considering refferals, you should keep in mind that these can be restricted to some regions of the globe. For example, the google pack installation won't pay you any cent unless the person installing it is from the USA. Thus, if the majority of your visitors comes from England it is useless to put this product on your website.

Is your design flexible

In some cases, and particularly with some blogging services, you do not have total control over the lay out of your website. Then you may have only one place to put your ads which is less than 20 pixels high. In this case for example, you cannot put any ad unit since there is no suitable format offered.

In some other situations, you may be using a CMS (Content Management System) to build your site and be confronted to the hard fact that the only region you can personalise is the menu (or sidebar). In that case we strongly recommend you use link units because they can be harmonously integrated into any menu.

What is a MFA?

“MFA” is a new term you may have come across lately on discussion boards or blog posts. MFA is the short version of “Made For AdSense”. It is always associated with the term “site” (or “website”) or “blog” as it is a new phenomenon touching all imaginable web contents.

An MFA Site is a site that has been designed, created, published… in the unique goal of generation income using the Google AdSense program.

Accordingly, content, design and general website quality are generally poor when it comes to MFA websites and cause a bad visitor experience. Moreover, MFA site creation has been made easier and easier over time as the process has been highly automated through some cheap software offering to create such sites in minutes.

Although some MFA websites use traditional traffic generation and marketing techniques, most of them are based on what is known as “AdSense arbitrage”.

Display First Adsense Ads

Getting the code

The adsense code is a javascript code you copy and paste into your pages. Javascript is easier to implement than PHP code or any server side code because any page, be it dynamic or static (in plain HTML), can execute it on the client's browser.

Once you have logged into your account and created your ads, the last step of the creation process automatically generates the javascript code for you. When you click the frame displaying the code, it is automatically selected and you can copy it.

Insertion the code

Now that you have the code, the next step is to open you webeditor or log into your blog / CMS... administration interface to insert the javascript code in the page's code. Please be very carefull not to paste it in your editor because it will be interpreted as plain text and won't execute on browsers.

This means you need to access the HTML code of your page. To do so using a popular webeditor like Dreamweaver, you just open the page you want and click the "Code" button to see the HTML code. Scroll to the desired line and paste your code there. To make sur your implementation is good, the code entred will be invisble when you get back to the WYSIWYG editor.

How To Create Chanels?

Once you will have created and customized your ads, you will be offered the possibility to create channels. Channels are used to track the performance of a specific ad / link unit.

As you can see, you can either assign an existing channel to the unit you are about to create or create a new channel.

To assign an existing channel, just click the "Add" link beside it.

If none of the existing channels suits you, click on the link called "Add new channel" (just below the box). An input box will pop up and you will be able to type in the name you want to give to the channel. Click OK so the channel is automatically added to you channel list. It will also be assigned to the unit you are creating.

If you want to remove a channel you have assigned to the ad, just click the link called "Remove" shown beside it.

Once you have added the channels you want, just click the "continue" button to get your code.

For a comprehensive case study on how channel can be used to track performance and make decisions that will improve your earning, read this article.

How Do I Create And Customize My Ads?

To start creating an AdSense ad unit, you need to be logged into your AdSense account. If you do not already have an AdSense account, you can apply from this page.

Once you are logged in, click on the "AdSense setup" tab and choose a product as shown below.

You will probably want to start by AdSense for content. On the next screen you will be asked to choose between ad units and link units. We will use the default options. (for more details on how to choose suitable AdSense products, please reffer to our advertising strategy guide).

On the next screen you will be able to customize your ads, by choosing the ad format and the colors as shown below.

When you are done, click the "continue" button and you will be able to get your Javascript code. This code has to be insered (copy and paste) in every page's HTML you want AdSense ads to be displayed on.

The Adsense Basic Formula

the formula

AdSense revenue is based on a very simple formula you aught to know by heart :

Revenue = Traffic x click Through Rate x Average Revenue per click

This is also called The AdSense Business Model.

Revenue

This is the result of the formula, the amount of money that goes into you pocket.

Traffic

In this context, traffic is the number of times a google ad is displayed on your website for the considered period of time. If your pages are seen 10.000 times during a month, your traffic is then 10.000 provided you place adsense ads on all your pages. To get 10.000 page impressions a month you can, for example, have 5.000 visitors viewing an average 2 pages per visitor or 8.000 visitors viewing 1,25 pages per visitor...

Please note that google can also show "public service" ads that are not taken into account which will reduce you traffic.

click through rate (CTR)

CTR is how many clicks you get out of 1 (one) page impression. It is generally close to 1% or 2%. A CTR of 3% means that a traffic of 10.000 resulted in 300 clicks.

CTR indicates how well the ads are doing, of course the higher the better but do not dream of a 30% CTR!

Average Revenue per click

As the phrase indicates, this is the amount of money Google pays you (in average) for every click. It can be 5 cents, 20 cents or many dollars.

The process that determines the revenue per click is complexe and will be discussed in other articles.

AdSense Application Guidelines

If you have more than one website or blog, apply using the "best" one. Once you get accepted for one website you can use adsense on all your other sites and blogs!

Do not apply with unfinished websites (containing pages "in construction", "coming soon"...), although you might be accepted in the program it is useless taking risks as an unfinished website will never get you any money so wait for it to be finished.

Adsense is based on content (text), so keep in mind that a minimum text is required in all your pages (avoid excessive flash and images).

For a website to be accepted it is commonly accepted that a minimum of 20 pages is often enough. For a blog, we think that a 2 months old blog has serious chances provided you post frequently.

Certain contents are prohibited. If you are running a website with pornographic content, do not try to apply for an adsense account. Here is a complete list of what Google does not accept :

Excessive profanity

Violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organsation

Hacking/cracking content

Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia

Pornography, adult, or mature content

Gambling or casino-related content

Excessive advertising

Any other content that promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others

Pop-ups, pop-unders or exit windows that interfere with site navigation

Excessive, repetitive, or irrelevant keywords in the content or code of web pages

Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site's search engine ranking, e.g., your site's PageRank

Incentives (monetary or point-based) to users or third-party beneficiaries for online activity including, but not limited to, clicking on ads or links, performing searches, surfing websites, reading emails, or completing surveys

Sales or promotion of certain weapons, such as firearms, ammunition, balisongs, butterfly knives, and brass knuckles

Sales or promotion of beer or hard alcohol, tobacco or tobacco-related products, prescription drugs, products that are replicas or imitations of designer goods

The program is only accessible to men and women older than 18 years. So if you are younger, you can either wait for some months and keep building your site's content and popularity or use someone else's identity keeping in mind that you could run into truble if your business does particularly well.

Is your website usable ? Does it have a functionning menu, well layed out pages, interesting content... you wouldn't expect advertisers to put their ads on websites you wouldn't trust yourself!

Applying for an AdSense Account

Applying for an AdSense publisher account isn't hard. Just go to http://www.google.com/adsense/

You will see the following page and you will need to click on the "Sign up now " button as shown bellow.

Next, fill in the form you will be shown and click the "Submit information" button at the bottom of the page. Keep in mind that some of the information you will provide here won't be editable so be carreful not to make the slightest mistake (read and read your application form again before submitting).

Here are two things you should pay attention to when applying for your adsense publisher account:

- Contact information is crucial because all your payments will be blocked untill you enter a secret code you will be mailled to the address you provide. Wrong address means NO payment ! In this section, payee name (generally your name) and country won't be editable.

- Product selection : check both options (I don't know why they give this choice)

The next page confirms the information you entered and asks if you already have a Google account. If you use another Google service like Blogger, Adwords... then check the first option. If not, check the second one and go on by creating a new Google account.

Google will then confirm that your application has been successful.

Wait for 1 or 2 days and you will receive the follow up message in your mailbox. If you are accepted, you will be able to log in to your AdSense account and start showing ads on your website / blog.

What is Adsense?

Google defines its AdSense program as a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money"

Let's have an in depth look at each important word in this definition:

Fast

To enable AdSense ads, you just need to insert a few lines on your pages' HTML code. This code is generated via a user friendly interface and no technical knowledge is needed to achieve this task.

Easy

AdSense is different from other advertising programs that require a day to day management (selecting advertisers, negotiating payments, managing display of banners...). In fact, AdSense is highly automated and once it is set up - the code is inserted - you have nothing else to do.

Website publishers of all sizes

This sentence refers to websites and blogs. This is important because some other advertising programs won't accept you as a publisher unless you have a website (not a blog) and a minimum size very few personal websites will ever reach (500.000 monthly pages views for example).

Moreover, AdSense isn't only suitable for blogs and small personal websites, it has been designed with small size publishers in mind which I find is a very good choice because this segment had no real alternative.

Relevant ads

This is undoubtedly the one feature that makes AdSense stand out of other advertising programs. AdSense relies on the Google search technology to "understand" what your pages are about and accordingly display ads that can be of interest to people who are reading them. As you might know, targetting is a key concept in successful advertising and Google has come up with a solution that makes your advertising often (if not always) very well targeted.

Earn money

Now that you have understood that AdSense is a great advertising program, why would you give Google space on your pages to display its ads? The answer is obvious : Google pays you every time someone CLICK on one of the ads you show. This is why AdSense is called a "Pay Per click" program. If you haven't implemented AdSense on your website / blog yet, I can imagine how excited you are about this program ! And you are absolutely right. AdSense will change the way you see the web. Let's see how you can start making money with adsense right now.

Tips for Avoiding Your AdSense Account Getting Banned by Google

I have seen quite a lot of AdSense publishers posted in different forums stating that their AdSense accounts were banned by Google due to fraudulent clicks. Most of these people claim that they are innocent and have never clicked on their on AdSense ads. So they have no idea why click fraud can occur on their AdSense accounts. The truth is click fraud can happen in several ways and not necessarily caused by the AdSense publisher himself/herself who accidentally clicked on his/her own AdSense.

Below are some of the tips to protect your AdSense account:

1) Do not use autosurf programs to promote your websites that contain AdSense. Autosurf programs can substantially increase your website traffic or hits, AdSense page view and ecpm but people who surf your site only to earn advertising credit or other type of incentives. So the traffic generated from autosurf programs aren't counted as real and thus against AdSense policies.

2) If possible, do not involve in any traffic exchange networks and programs. If you have join one or more programs or networks that can make you a steady AdSense commission, you should start worry about your AdSense account as this could mean that members of the program(s) were clicking each other AdSense ads all the while whether intentionally or unintentionally. As soon as Google detected a group of people were clicking each other AdSense, many of the members AdSense account in the program will be suspended. Also traffic exchange can be another mean to artificially generate tons of unreal website traffic or hits and boost up AdSense page view & ecpm and it is strictly prohibited by Google .

3) Do not join AdSense exchange networks. They are similar to traffic exchange programs except members are participate just for clicking each other AdSense. This should be a guaranteed way to be banned by Google.

4) Read all the Google AdSense policies at http://www.google.com/adsense to see whether you have against any policies and make the necessary modification.

5 Tips to Boost Your Adsense Revenue

Google AdSense program has made it easier for webmasters to make money through a website. Webmasters who run an AdSense campaign will display Google's contextual Ads relevant to the content of their sites and thus encouraging visitors to click the ads and earn money for each ad click.

However you will earn very little AdSense revenue if you don't know how to optimize your AdSense ads on your website. Here are some tips to increase your AdSense earning:

1. Focus on one Adsense ad format. The Large Rectangle (336X280) ad format seems to work better than other ad formats because this format tends to result in higher click through rates (CTR). Another reason is that the ads will look like normal web links that visitors use to click on them. It doesn't matter whether the visitors know that they are clicking AdSense ads or not, as long as there are clicking, you earn AdSense commission.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Select a color that matches your website's background. If your site's background is white both, the color of ad border and background should set to be white too. Also the color of the ad title should be similar to coloe of the links in your website. This is to make your AdSense ads look like it is part of the web pages. Again, this will boost AdSense CTR.

3. Don't place your AdSense ads at the bottom of your webpages because it is proven to be less effective. Displaying your AdSense ads at the bottom is like hiding your AdSense and thus leads to low CTR and AdSense revenue. Try to put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between AdSense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Try to place your AdSense ads near rich content as visitors main focus usually are your content. There are several ways to insert AdSense ads into your content and one of the ways is place your AdSense just after the end of your content.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your AdSense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your AdSense code in a text file, name it as “AdSense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then use SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. There are other ways to optimize your AdSense that produce high CTR also. You can learn more tricks by reading in AdSense and webmaster forums.

4 Steps to Creating A Website Specifically to Earn AdSense Revenue

Building a website to earn Google AdSense advertising revenue has become a popular way to make extra money online nowadays. It is easier to earn AdSense income versus generating sales by selling products or services online. However it does involve works, time and money before you start earning from Adsense program. Below are the steps to creating a content website for earning AdSense revenue.

Step 1

Decide the content of your website. You can write a topic or subject related to your interest, hobbies or experience. You can also provide educational information and advice on your website if you are expert at something.

Step 2

Use a website builder to create your website. One of the easy-to-use website builders that can help you build a website is Bluevoda website builder. Bluevoda site builder allows users to build a website without technical knowledge. You don’t need to build your site from scratch. The trick is to use a free professional template provided by the site builder and then start adding your text and links to your website. You can add some graphics and pictures to make your site look nicer. After completing your website project, your next step is register a domain name and sign up for a hosting account to publish your website on the Internet.

Step 3

Join Google AdSense program. It will usually take several days for Google AdSense team to review and approve your site. If Google accepts your application. You can start learning how to generate AdSense code for inserting to your website to generate Adsense revenue. If your site rejected by Google, don’t get upset easily. Google will let you know the reasons of the rejection. You can fix the problems and reapply again.

Step 4

You need to drive targeted Visitors/Traffic to your website to generate Adsense revenue. The higher your website’s traffic the greater your Adsense earning will be. Below are some of the ways that can help you drive some traffic to your website in short period of time.

1) Use Per-per-click (PPC) advertising. The two most popular PPC search engines are Google and Yahoo. Google and Yahoo can deliver instant traffic to your website but it is costly to advertise on Google and Yahoo. There are other alternatives like Bidvertise.com and Clicksor.com which are cheaper to advertise with.

2) Introduce your site to your family and friends.

3) Write several articles with a link to your website on the resource box and submit them to article directories. You can find a list of article directories by going to Google and entering the search term 'article directory'.

4) Post messages on community forums with a link to your site on the signature of each message posted.

Overview

There are so many ways to make money on the internet and a lot of money to be made. Why shouldn't you be apart of that income? The answer is there is no reason why you shouldn't be apart of that income. Now I am not saying that it is easy to make hundreds of thousands of dollars from the internet even though some people are making that much. But, there is a lot of money out there and if you have a website or blog you should be getting your hands on some of it. It is not any easy task you need to put a lot of hard work into it and be devoted, but in the end it is worth it. There are many different ways to make money with your site from selling your stuff to advertising. This blog is going to give you information about all the different types of money making opportunities, so then you can make the decision on what method works best for you.