Why Use Google Adsense

Undoubtedly, you've heard about Google's AdSense and you are thinking about giving it a go. But is it really worth placing an AdSense banner on your site?

The answer is a definite that depends. 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.

But that's nowhere near what you get for using AdSense. There are people who earn in excess of 100.000 dollars per year by using AdSense. And it doesn't just stop with making more money. Firstly, the ads are text only. That means they're by far less obtrusive on your visitors then your average, flashy banner that's designed to catch the eye of the visitor.

Sure, you'll have to ensure they get better placement, so as to be noticed but despite that they don't bother viewer’s as much as traditional ads. Think about the many sites you've seen using pop-ups, floating banners and many other schemes that will have visitors screaming in anger every time they visit the said website. You can actually do better then that, annoying people less and still making an amount of money.

Secondly, the ads are generated based on the contents of your site automatically. When you use an affiliate ad program, you have to specify certain categories that your sites belong to.

However, if any page on your site falls outside of these categories, the banners aren't targeted anymore. And what that means is that you're potentially showing ads to people who don't have any interest in them and that can lead to inefficiencies.

With Google AdSense that just about never happens: the ads present on your site will always be in sync with whatever your visitors are interested in and that adds to your site's value and to the revenue it produces.

What's more, the look of these banners and their size is customizable, which means they will feel more integrated with the rest of your site's content, which brings an increase in your site's overall visual quality as opposed to a traditional approach.

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.

It's free to join the AdSense program and it almost takes no time at all. The potential database of websites from AdWords is larger then anything you might encounter from any competitor, numbering over 150.000 users. This means as more people compete the CPC or cost per click for search terms will inevitably rise. 

Also, setting up AdSense on your site is a breeze, and you can complete the whole process in less then an hour. It takes a lot less to do then any form of affiliate advertising which is yet another reason to choose the easy AdSense approach.

All you need to do is add an AdSense banner on your website (other then registering with the program of course) is to copy & paste a few lines and you're all done, you get to choose where the banners go, how large they are and how they integrate with the rest of your site.

For any webmaster out there, that's a killer scheme because it lets you draw the line between your site's usability level and the amount of advertising you wish to have. Some people need the money badly while others just keep AdSense running to pay for the hosting of their website.

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.

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How Much Money Can I earn Through Adsense

If you're looking at Google's AdSense program you're surely asking yourself how much you could make from such a program, and you probably think you can't make as much as you can from traditional advertising schemes.

Google, of course, keeps a great deal of secrecy regarding how much AdWords advertisers pay per each click directed to their site and the same applies for how much AdSense banner holders make from their websites.

While there's nothing official, rumors circulate around the Internet concerning the amount of cash a website can earn by using AdSense. And many people (illegally) disclose how much they have been making with AdSense. There are stories of people raising over one thousand dollars per month using AdSense.

There are also stories of people exceeding $100,000.00 per month but it's a bit hard to believe such stories. The truth to the matter is that if you have a small website and you just want it to support itself, and don't wish to reach your pocket for its maintenance costs you can probably do this with AdSense.

AdSense is also very good for people who host a lot of pages. Even if the said pages don't generate a lot of traffic individually, every click counts and you can earn up with a lot of money by doing this. And that just goes to prove that sometimes quantity matters nearly as much as quality.

There's no telling how much money you're going to make by using Google's AdSense but you can sort of tell for yourself, before actually starting, by taking a few things into consideration.

First, is the amount of visits you get every day. While there's no way to estimate precisely on this, you can generally make a safe assumption that if you have a lot of clicks per day you'll be making good money.

Also, this depends on what exactly your site is about. If your site is about anything popular (music, sex, whatever) you're bound to get a lot of banner clicks. These have a coefficient associated with them, called the CTR (click through ratio).

Basically, what it translates to is that if a large proportion of your site's visitors click the ads you'll be making more money. And the best way to do this is to have some popular content in your site, ensuring the links direct users towards popular items as well.

Then of course, there's the position and number of ads on your website. While you don't want to overdo it, having many links will undoubtedly generate more income for you as a webmaster. Do not however believe, that if you just add a lot of ads in an important portion of your site, visitors could always just skip them (and be assured that many do just that).

There's something between an art and a science to positioning your ads. People generally look in certain places and never look in others, and knowing this a website author and/or webmaster can do a great deal of things to increase his earnings with AdSense.

All in all, the amount of money you make with AdSense depends on many factors. But if you have a site with interesting contents and/or many pages, and if you see a constantly large amount of traffic every day, you can bet you'll be making a lot of money with AdSense.

Even if you aren't in the above categories, AdSense is still worth using because there's very little hassle in setting it up, and many times it can help financially support the site, whilst being a nice bonus to get through the post at the end of the month.

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Adsense - Pros and Cons

You have that site on-line for quite a while, its generating a good number of hits every day and you're thinking whether or not to use AdSense advertising on it to make it generate some form of income.

Well this is a description of the pros and cons of this approach to Internet advertising. AdSense has definitely hit the Internet like something from another planet and people are very excited about it everywhere. There are negative aspects to Adsense and alternatives to consider.

AdSense is generally a great tool for webmasters. Whereas, they would use to worry about how to raise enough money to keep their sites profitable, or at least keep them on-line those worries are gone.

AdSense allows webmasters to forget about those worries and concentrate on creating good content for their sites. In fact, the emphasis is now on creating quality content (often associated with the top-paying words) which will bring you many visitors.

AdSense can also very well integrated with your website, it's easily customizable in terms of colors, size and position which means you can experiment with it in any way you like to maximize your income.

AdSense is a very good means of generating a constant revenue on your site. All you need to do is create some quality content and keep it updated constantly and you can literally live off your website. A lot of people are doing just that nowadays with AdSense, so it's become sort of a business in itself.

It's also a great program because you can have the same account advertising on all your pages. This is great for webmasters wit a lot of content because it means they don't have to create many accounts unnecessarily.

But as stated, above, there are some negative aspects to advertising with AdSense and here's a small list of such cons.

Clearly the largest negative impact the AdSense program can have on you is through Google closing your accounts. Most of the time this happens because of so called 'click fraud', which means somebody would be producing artificial clicks on your page.

There's one really nasty side to that. It doesn't have to be you making those artificial clicks. It could very well be your competition doing this in order to shut you down, or the competitor of whoever is advertising on your page, looking to drive their marketing costs up.

The earning AdSense brings you are by no means constant. In fact, they're not even close to that. Anything you do to your site could end up being a big mistake costing you a great deal of money. It's that kind of pressure that has a negative impact on you.

First of all, you constantly need to make sure your site is in the spotlight of search engines when people are searching for whatever it is your site is about.

If you fail to do that you won't have any visitors, and that of course means you won't have any AdSense revenue. In a way this is nothing new, as any form of generating revenue on the Internet with advertising has such a drawback.

And finally, another major problem is that you constantly have to feed your site with better and better content. Now, of course, certain sites are very well geared towards doing this but with some types of content this is rather hard to achieve. This is often why the services of a copywriter are employed to generate more and more content.

When writing original content, the best thing a website owner can do is research a topic thoroughly and then return to writing with lots of information they can out in their own words, and show their own opinion on.

So there are the pros and cons of using the AdSense network for generating profits through advertising. Now the choice of whether or not these work for you is yours.

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Blog Marketing How AND When To Add Adsense to your Post

Its good to make some profit from your blog at some point in time and if you're considering Google's Adsense as a means then this post is just for you

 To show You How to add adsense to your Blog
and also WHEN to add adsense to Your blog

A very important element in the rapid adoption of AdSense is that it has been very easy for publishers to get the ads on their site as quickly as possible.
SO lets quickly go into it without further ado

How to Add Adsense to Your Blog

Integrating AdSense in your website takes only a few minutes, and you can be on your way with one or more nicely integrated AdSense ads.

Step 1

There are two ways you can access the adsense signup page

one way is to  

log in with your existing gmail account and password. If you already have a blogger account you can also access the adsense signup page from your blogger dashboard..it looks like the figure above you can then click on the signup link tab in red 

You can also sign up for adsense from this url address http://www.google.com/adsense and  signup 

and you'll come across the page below which you'll have to follow as explained

After you've successfully signed up and gotten approval,you'll now need to add the adsense PUBLISHER   you'll be given in your adsense account to your blog
it looks like this
Account ID: pub-123456789011

You are presented with a report page which you can use to get a detailed status on how your AdSense advertising is doing. This allows you to improve your site's contents and layout to maximize your AdSense earnings.

On the top of your page you also have link to the setup section where you can generate the code that will need to be pasted on your website in order to have AdSense banners on your page.

You can use AdSense for text (the said ads), using a search box or with referrals. Your choice among these options depends on how users will navigate your site.

Finally, there is a "My Account" tab which allows you to set up details concerning your account, payment and tax information.

To add a text ad on your site, go back to the "AdSense Setup" tab and click the "AdSense for content" link. Make sure you have cookies enabled in your browser.

You can make a choice between ad units and link units. The former contain text and or images concerning a certain site for each unit, most with a detailed description, the latter only contain links to certain types. 

Of course, it's a bit hard to know which type you should use so you should probably experiment with both for a while before you decide.

You can also view an example of how the unit will look to the right of your page. However, you may only use three ad units and one link unit on any given page. This is believed to be a step which Google takes for quality control.

The next step is to choose your add format and colors. You can basically select any color palette you choose with Google offering some of its own if you don't have the time or skill to create one. You can constantly view how the palette will look through the aid of an example. The one that works best in terms of appearance and revenues will vary with the look, feel and content of a website. 

However, your ad formats are limited to a choice of eleven formats. There's an "Ad Formats" link which takes you to a page that lets you see all even of these in action so you can decide best which one suits your site. Sometimes the most intrusive, doesn’t work best however again, this can vary from website to website.

After you finish with customization, you can click "Continue" from the bottom of the page.

You are now presented with a section entitled "AdSense for Content". You can click anywhere in the text and that shows the JavaScript required to get AdSense running. This will automatically select the text in the box. 

You can then copy it and paste it into your pages directly. If you use dynamic pages, you should paste this code within your template so as to ensure that it gets displayed on any page of your website. Some advertisers choose not to display Adsense on every page, and this is understandable. An example of this is a company that has adsense, may also have terms and condition which would inevitably provide legal resources which would probably be deemed inappropriate.

What is then left for you to do is get content on your page (provided you didn't have any already). Google AdSense crawlers will soon visit your site, making sure that the ads displayed are relevant to your site's content.

And you're all done. For a simple page this should indeed be a matter of a few minutes, which is precisely what makes AdSense the choice for so many. Although it is quick, its mass appeal also makes it the best. Through being the most popular, advertisers and publishers alike see Adsense and Adwords as their natural first choice.

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How TO Start A Free Blog And Still Make Money

How do you start a free blog and make money?

I got this message in my in-box one Monday morning as I was going through a huge list of messages from my blog readers from different parts of the world.Then It caught my eye

It was sent by one of my readers that was TRYING to  start out new with zero investment
after going through the contents of the email (a very long one)

 I got the impression to write this post on how to make money using a free blog

Yes , I had done this when I was starting out new too and had no money to invest but it was quite long ago when blog marketing was still simple, uncomplicated and had quite a lot of today's premium resources actually free back then

So I did an intense research to find out if it was still possible and how much possible

Right now blog marketing has become a different ball game all together.

 It needs money, though not quite a lot :) and that's really great

One big set back about free blogs is they're not actually free.
Its your blog yeah to some extent but you don't actually own the blog like you bought it
all you have as yours is the content not the platform

Now I'm going to break this question into 2 sections and try to explain how you can connect the two successfully

Yes You can start a Free blog
and its quite easy in fact it can take you about 2 minutes and you have blog---really

Things you'll need:

The Right Free blog Platform
 that allows at least some important customization AND that allows some form of marketing
like affiliate links, banners and ads

Below is a list of blog platform i FIND helpful in this respect

1. http://www.blogger.com 

2. Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog

3. http://www.blogetery.com 

4. Blogsome 

5. Blogono Free Blogs | Just another WordPress site 

6. Default Parallels Plesk Panel Page 

7. IdeaFry - Your Source for Quality Articles & Content 

8. Blog - Free 

9. Bedeng

10. Blog Ireland 

11. Website hosting and Wordpress managed hosting - Blogpico Club - Powerful publishing tools - Membership just $5 

12. Syncr Ping Service - Sync Your Blog to The World - Free XML-RPC Ping Service -

13. Blog Detik | Building Your Personal Brand 

14. http://www.dagdigdug.com

15.http://www.squarespace.com

You'll need a fitting sub-domain name that reflects what your blog is going to be about
your domain are going to 
look like this

blogger:  yourniche.blogspot.com

weebly:  yournicheor keyword.weebly.com

and so on and so forth


You'll need a profitable niche

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Blogging and affiliate marketing the sweetest Mix

Affiliate marketing is one way in which bloggers utilize their blog to generate revenue. The amount of revenue generated by a blog featuring affiliate marketing links may vary significantly depending on the amount of traffic the blog receives as well as the compensation offered for the affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing essentially entails creating a link on the blog to another company’s website. The other

company then compensates the blog owner according to a previously agreed upon contract. This compensation may be

awarded in a number of different ways.

The blog owner may be compensated each time the advertisement is served, each time a unique website visitor clicks

through the advertisement or each time a blog visitor performs a desired action such as making a purchase or

registering with the website.

This article will discuss some aspects of affiliate marketing which bloggers should understand including selecting

opportunities carefully, maximizing the income potential for these opportunities and understanding the

requirements associated with these affiliate marketing opportunities.

Selecting Affiliate Marketing Opportunities

There is a wide variety of affiliate marketing opportunities available. Many different companies and websites

offer affiliate marketing opportunities. In most cases the blog owner simply needs to submit the website address

of his blog along with some other basic information for approval. In most cases the company is not likely to

reject the application unless the content of the website is deemed to be objectionable or otherwise in conflict of

interest with the company’s goals. However, although getting approved to display affiliate links on your website

is a rather simple process, this does not mean blog owners should select these affiliate marketing opportunities

without discretion. It is a far better idea to carefully select affiliate marketing opportunities with companies

who are of interest to the target audience of the blog.

A well focused blog that is reaching a specific target audience should seek to display marketing links directing

website traffic to companies which complement the blog without acting as direct competition to the blog. This

helps to ensure the blog visitors will not only be interested in the affiliate marketing links and therefore more

likely to click on the links but will also help to ensure the blog visitors do not find the affiliate marketing

links to be bothersome.

Maximizing Affiliate Marketing Opportunities

Once blog owners have selected affiliate marketing opportunities it is time to consider how they can maximize the

profit generated by these links. There are a couple of critical factors which blog owners should carefully

consider to help maximize their profit from affiliate marketing. This includes regularly evaluating the

effectiveness of the affiliate links and promoting the blog to maximize traffic.

Blog owners who incorporate affiliate marketing into their blog should regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the

affiliate links. This can be done by comparing the percentage of blog visitors who click on the affiliate links to the overall blog traffic.

A blog which has high traffic but a relatively small percentage of visitors who click on the affiliate links should consider making changes to attempt to entice more blog visitors to click on the links.


These changes can involve the aesthetics, size or location of the advertisements. Making only one change at a time

is recommended because it makes it easier for the blog owner to evaluate which changes are most beneficial.

Blog owners can also help to maximize the profit from their affiliate marketing opportunities by doing self

promotion to drive additional website to the blog. This will likely be beneficial because higher website traffic

will generally translate to greater profit from affiliate marketing. Additionally, the blog owner may want to

occasionally mention companies for which they are an affiliate to generate interest in the advertisements on the

website.

Understanding Affiliate Marketing Requirements

Finally, blog owners should pay careful attention to the affiliate marketing agreements they enter. This is important because some companies may place restrictions on the usage of a link to their website.

This may include:

restrictions such as avoiding objectionable content, not including links or advertisements for direct competitors

or restrictions on the appearance of the affiliate links.

Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in the

blog losing affiliate privileges and the blog owner being denied compensation.

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Importance of A Good Blog Design

Good Blog Design Converts right?

though In many cases blog design tends to be not that attractive less innovative than website design in general. One of the reason for this is that some bloggers place more emphasis on content rather than how a blog  looks

Your blog and the way it looks is the hub of your online business; it is the virtual representation of your company whether your company exists physically or not.

When you are doing business online, people cannot see you physically like how they could if they were dealing with an offline company. Most blog visitors, do judge your blog by the way it looks. 

This is why a good blog design is necessary

Imagine if you are running an offline company. Would you allow your salespersons to be dressed in shabby or casual clothes when they are dealing with your customers?

 By making your staff wear professionally, you are telling your customers that you do care about quality. This works simply because first impressions matter.

Similarly, the same case is with your website. If your website is put together shabbily and looks like a 5 minute "quick fix", you are literally shouting to your visitors that you are not professional and you do not care for quality.

On the opposite, if you have a totally professional looking website layout, you are giving your visitors the perception that you have given meticulous attention to every detail and you care about professionalism. You are organized, focused and you really mean business.

On the other hand, you should also have anything related to your company well designed. From business cards to letterheads to promotional brochures, every little bit matters. This is because as you grow your business, these items become the face of your business. 


Once again, think of the "salesperson dressed shabbily" analogy, and you will get my point.

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