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August 22, 2007

Google AdSense

 

What is Google AdSense for content


Enhance your site—and your profits.
Keep your users coming back with contextually targeted ads.
You want to make more money from advertising, but you don't want to serve untargeted ads to your users. Google AdSense™ solves this problem by automatically delivering text and image ads that are precisely targeted to your site and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful.
Access thousands of advertisers with minimal effort.
Signing up and maintaining relationships with advertisers is a full-time job. Luckily, Google AdSense does it for you. Our advertisers range from global brands to small local companies, in categories ranging from Education to Travel, Mortgages to Patio Furniture and just about everything in between. Best of all, once you get started, the AdSense program requires virtually no maintenance.

When your content changes, so do your ads.
Google AdSense technology goes beyond simple keyword or category matching. We work hard to understand your content and deliver ads that are relevant to specific pages, automatically, no matter how many thousands of pages your site may have, or how specialized or broad your content. As your content changes, Google's ads change to match. And since our ads are also targeted by country, global businesses can display local advertising with no additional effort.*
Safeguarding your business standards is our business too.
We're committed to maintaining our customers' business standards. That's why Google AdSense features these safeguards:
Competitive ad filters. You can block competitive ads, or other ads you want to keep off your site, simply by telling us which URLs to block.
Ad Review. Before ads appear on your site, they're reviewed using a combination of human and automated processes. The review process takes into account a variety of factors, including the quality of the ad and whether it's suitable for all audiences.
Sensitive content filters. At times, certain ads may be inappropriate for some pages. For example, Google automatically filters out ads that would be inappropriate on a news page about a catastrophic event.
Choose your own default ads. In the unlikely event that Google is unable to serve targeted ads on your page, we offer you the option of displaying a default ad of your choice. This ensures that your advertising space is always being used as effectively as possible.
Customize ads to complement your site.
You spend lots of time perfecting your website's look and feel, and we want AdSense to fit in. So we let you customize the appearance of your ads to fully complement your site by choosing from over 200 colors and 24 pre-set color palettes (you can create and save your own custom palettes using a simple point-and-click color selection tool.
Track your earnings with online reports.
With AdSense, you can monitor your ad performance with customizable online reports that offer details like the number of page impressions, clicks and click-through rate. You can track the performance of specific ad formats, colors and pages, and spot trends quickly and easily. Our flexible reporting tools let you group your pages however you want, so you can gain insight into your earnings by viewing results by URL, domain, ad type, category and more.
And best of all, of course, you can check your earnings anytime.
Getting started is fast and easy.
Getting started as a Google AdSense publisher is easy. It only takes a few moments to apply online for both content and search ads. Once you're approved, simply log in to your account, copy a block of HTML code and paste it into your existing ad server or any of your web pages. And that's it—you're done. Relevant ads start to appear on your web pages, and your earnings start to add up.
Click here to apply for AdSense.
Google AdSense for search
When you join the AdSense program, you get access to Google AdSense for search, and that's a good thing; adding a Google search box to your site means monetizing more web pages while offering your users an even better site experience. Visitors hang around longer, since they can search from right on your site. And since AdSense serves targeted ads on search results pages, you can make more money from your Google search box as well. Learn more about Google AdSense for search.
sb
August 20, 2007
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sb
August 20, 2007
Often, you hear of successful people monetizing their website with Adsense and earning from it millions. Whether those fantastic figures are true, I have no **** idea. But I do know for certain: you can earn a small contribution towards your retirement out of Adsense.

Unlike ads that appear in newspapers with no relation to the content in the page, Google’s Adsense displays ads that tries (to some extent) to match the content on your website. And Google’s proposal to you as a webmaster is simple: when a user clicks on the ad on your page, the advertiser will have to pay Google. In return for generating that click, Google will then pay you 50% of the revenue earned from that click as commission.

What does this mean for the webmaster? It means that when using Adsense in your websites, you should running a business. Yes, running a business; not for yourself, but for the companies who purchased the ads. Remember, you are making a sale from which you will earn a commission. Therefore your job is to sell.

Unlike stocks and shares, Adsense is not a passive income earner. If you want to earn your million from it, you have to work for it, and there are a few parts to it:

1. Advertising your own website.

Remember, Adsense earns you commission from user clicks. But if no one visits you website in the first place, where will there be users to click on your ads? So before you start marketing other companies, you’ll have to market yourself first.

Put your site up for searching; publicize your site on forums; offer freebies from your site; offer latest information; get users to talk about your site’s subject matter in forums. Or… you can advertise your site with Google!

2. Sell to your readers.

Write about something that you are passionate about. Target your writing to give your readers information about your subject matter and tell them why that something is good.

This helps get your readers back to your site again, and this helps to create a need in them to want whatever that you are selling. Yes, like how the diamond industries created the need for a rock, you must create that need.

3. And keep at it.

Continue to provide your users information so that they will keep coming back for more. And continue to generate that need and desire.
sb
August 20, 2007
Steve Pavlina has an interesting article on how to make money from your blog using Adsense. Be sure to drop by for an inspirational motivation.

But is it even possible at all? I have to tell you that it really is. I'm not yet earning a $1,000 a day from Adsense, but I'm getting there. In compliance with Google's policies I can't divulge how much I earn, and I don't really care if others do it. But I know for sure that earning money from Adsense is definitely possible.

How am I doing this?

When making money from your blog or whatever web site that you have dreamt of, you need to understand one thing that most people do not. Building up your traffic can take time... plenty of time. And your job is to create either value for the visitors to keep returning to your site for more information, or to create an impact that will inspire him into taking action to click on Google's Ads.

What do you really need?

Passion for your blog. You must be very, very interested about the topic that you are blogging about. If not, your blog will not last more than 15 posts, and will die a slow and natural death. No one comes back to read it because no one updates it.

Inspiration to your reader. This is nothing more than the psychology of making a sale, however, subtle it is. In fact, subconscious selling has been proven to work better than telling the user directly that this is good, that is great. You will want to set him up in a mood that makes him ready to look for more information. Most users may not like to be sold: they only like to buy. So your choice of words can be extremely important in moving the user.

Can you really do it?

Yes, you can. But please, start now, before the business of online advertising change, before it is all too late. Do not expect millions of dollars coming your way, though. Until you get a $1,000 a day like Steve, it's an additional income stream, not a replacement for your day job.
sb
August 20, 2007
There is a lot of free blogs on the web that you can choose. But the one in blogger.com is a bit different. It allows you to paste your own Adsense ads here and make money from it. Why don't we take a ride and open a free blog account in blogger.com?

The application is very simple and consists of three steps:

1. Choose a blog name you like:

You can choose a nice sub-domain for your blog. Just pick up one name that best describe your site. Also, it should be easily memorable to visitors. Apart from that, if you have your own domain or subdomain, you can also use your own domain to replace the one in blogger.com. In my case, I choose http://www.blogformoney.org/ as my blog URL. In the new version of blogger, you may even apply a new domain name and then host this domain at Google server at dns.google.com. In this way, you can have an unique domain name like mine, and no need to apply for a web hosting service which is a bit expensive.

2. Provide your personal information

This step is also easy. Similar to other online services you apply, just prvoide blogger.com your name, email address etc. All the information are kept confidential, and no need to worry about the junk mails that may send to your email address.

3. Pick up a template

Among a series of templates, just choose the one you love. Pick a wrong one? No worry, you can change this template whenever you want. Apart from those free templates provided in blogger.com, you can also find other blogger templates in other websites. You may even pick up a three-column template like mine. If you are a HTML savvy, you can also make your own unique template.
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