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If You Have a Web Site that Has Traffic You Will Make Money with Adsense

How I started making money with Google Adsense

I have been using Google Adsense almost as long as it has been out. I looked at it when Google first premiered the Adsense program. At the time I had seen so many affiliate programs that were worthless (basically I feel all affiliate programs are worthless) I was hesitant to try it. All I needed was another program to clutter up my site and not make money. After a couple of months I read something again about the Adsense program and thought I would try it on one of my smaller sites. So I put up one set of Adsense ads on the top shared border so that it appeared on every page of the site. About 5 hours later I checked and had already made 10 dollars. I was so encouraged by the results that by evening I had it on all three of my web sites.

How much money can you make with Google Adsense?

Now this is a difficult question. Google frowns on people sharing the specifics of what the make. But I make a full time living off of the three sites now. If you have a website and get traffic to the site you will make money with Google Adsense. How much money you can make depends on several factors. I will list out the considerations then give a brief explanation of each.

The subject and content of your website
The popularity of your website.
The size and usability of you website.

The amount of money you make for each time someone clicks a link on your website depends on how much money people are bidding for that term. A lawyer who is looking for clients in a lawsuit may pay several dollars a click looking for clients. A website about bowling will have appropriate adds on it but the profit the advertisers can make limits how much they are willing to make per click and may only pay 5 to 10 cents a click. So it is obvious that since you get paid a percentage of what Google makes per click then there is going to be a big difference in what site makes per click than another. Does this mean that you should abandon your current website to go after another? No, I think it is better to go with what you have a passion. Everyone and their brother are going after the big keywords. I have made allot of money writing web pages about what I have a passion about.

Obviously the more people who visit your site the more money you make with Google Adsense. The more people who visit your site the more that see the ads. This is one of the reasons not to drop your existing site for a site about some legal issue. One of the popular terms that pays extremely well is Mesothelioma. This is rare form of cancer that is usually caused by asbestos. While each click pays well not many people are looking for this information. So which is better a site that gets 10 visitors a day and a click every couple of days that pays a dollar or two or a site with 1000 visitors a day with 40 clicks for 10 cents each.

They say that size does not matter. When it comes to making money with Google Adsense it does. The more content on your site the more money you make. This works two ways. The more content pages on you site the more different pages people can find when search for the information you offer. Then if your site is well planned so that it is easy for them to find all the information on your site then 1000 visitors can translate into 10,000 page views. There is only so much content you can add about a subject like Mesothelioma. Also consider that thousands of people are making sites about the hottest paying search terms. There is a lot of competition for these terms.

I have a friend who, when he found out how much money I was making with Adsense, decided he wanted to get in on the action. After talking about it he decided to go with his passion of fishing. He is a Salmon and Steelhead fisherman so he made a page about the rivers in his area. He included maps, favorite-fishing spots, catch reports and other pertinent information about fishing these rivers. He has had a blast making the web site because it is an extension of his hobby and makes plenty of money from it to support his fishing habit.

I was blessed in that when Google first started Adsense I already had two large web sites that got a reasonable amount of traffic. I made over 300 dollars my first month. With Google Adsense you get paid at the end of the month. You do not get paid until you reach 50 dollars. If you do not make 50 dollars in a month the money stays in your account until you do. Most people can not expect $50 a month plus when they first start. I have spent the last two plus years adding content and increasing my income. If you have a brand new website it will take a couple of months to start seeing it show up in search engines and beginning to see traffic. But the nice thing is that once you start making money with Google Adsense then with every page you build you are working to increase your income. I love it, now if I want to take a week off I make the same money as I do when I work. I am not working to keep an income. My income comes automatically. I am working to increase it every time I add content to my site.

So I wish you a very profitable future with your website. If you do not already have an Adsense account I invite you to go to the section of my web site that is about making money with Adsense and clicking the blue link an the left side of the page. It will take to Google's Adsense sign up page.

By Rusty Ford

Google AdSense is a Pay Per Click affiliate program which tens of thousands of webmasters use to make money from their websites and blogs. New internet marketers often confuse the AdSense program with Google's counterpart: AdWords. So let's summarize the difference between the two...

AdSense is the program which allows you to place Google Advertisements onto your website or blog, and each time one of your visitors clicks those ads, you make money into your Google AdSense account. Once you've earned at least $100 in clicks, Google will send you a check the following month.

AdWords is where those ads come from. Advertisers go to Google and sign up for the AdWords advertising program. They then create advertisements for their websites and products, and enter how much money per click they are willing to pay each time someone clicks on their ads. AdWords advertisers must pay Google money to keep those ads running. The money paid to Google by those advertisers, is what Google shares with AdSense publishers.

Now, making money with AdSense is fairly simple, but it's not always overly easy. In most cases, you have to generate a lot of traffic to your websites and blogs in order to earn a lot of money from AdSense, because sometimes you are only paid a few cents each time someone clicks an ad. There are a few topics however, which will let you earn $1 or sometimes even as much as $10, each time someone clicks an ad on your site, but these are becoming less common each year.

There are several ways to make money with AdSense, and they all tend to revolve around creating content on a website. The most popular way is to set up a free blog, and then put the AdSense code on that blog. Then you simply make one or more blog posts every day, and generate traffic to that site. Over time as your traffic grows, some of those visitors will click your ads and you'll make money.

The second popular way to make money with AdSense, is to create general information style websites. Some people create many sites with just five or ten articles on each, and some people create larger sites which might have twenty to fifty articles on them. Creating a huge website with hundreds or thousands of articles on it is an excellent way to make money from AdSense too, but that usually takes some time to set up.

These types of "static" websites tend to be popular because once you get the initial content in place, all you have to do is start generating traffic. Unlike a blog you don't usually have to update a static site often.

One other excellent way to make money from AdSense is to start a website that's based on a forum. Starting a forum about a popular topic can often bring thousands of visitors back to the site every day. And some of those visitors will click ads that interest them. It takes time to built up a lot of traffic and members to a forum, but it can be a very lucrative way to make money from AdSense once you've become established.

By Diane Crawford

Starting out from his Garage
Jeff Bezos built the foundation of Amazon.com from the garage of his two-bedroom house rented outside of Seattle. He fashioned his first office tables from wooden doors, angle brackets, and two-by-four lumber purchased from Home Depot.

This article summarizes the recognizable aspects of Amazon.com's success and lays down lessons learned in the form of tips. You have the opportunity to analyze the tips given here and apply them with prudence to your own business.

You as the owner of your own home based business started - or about to embark if you have not as yet started - with the same resources as Jeff Bezos. You are in a similar situation - if not much better position - than the Amazon founder because you have the secret to his success to learn and apply into your own business.

Tip No. 1: Be modest in your initial investment. For example, your laptop or PC shall not necessarily be top of the line. Your office location could be a corner of the house or your room, basement or garage. Save on office rent by all means. Be like Jeff Bezos and other successful marketers who spent prudently and succeeded.

Motivation
You should motivate yourself to succeed. When Amazon was struggling to make profits for the first time, only its founder Jeff Bezos believed that the business goal could be achieved in a year's time. Everybody was astounded when Jeff Bezos achieved his goal after one year.

Tip No. 2: The lesson that could be learned from the above account is to lay down and make known in clear fashion your goal to every stake holder of your small business. They include your spouse and your web designer, among others.

Write down this goal and post this on the wall beside your desk. Save this goal in your hard disk and make the text the start up page when you boot your computer. You can convert your goal into a screensaver. Read your goal to yourself every day as you go about your business on the Internet.

Tip No. 3: You should motivate yourself every day and pass this motivation on to every one who's involved in your business. To paraphrase the author Wallace D. Wattles who wrote The Science of Getting Rick in 1910, envision yourself right now as having a very successful business and do every which legal and ethical way to actualize your vision. FYI, Wattles' book is featured in my web site.

Change
It is said that change is the one single permanent thing on this planet. Amazon changed the way it does business through the years. First it was an online book seller. Next it expanded into selling music and videos.

Then it offered toys, consumer electronics and software to its customers. These were linked with a host of new products until this very day. Amazon has a constantly evolving product line. Its competitors have a hard time catching up with the innovator.

During its initial years of operation, Amazon was not making any real profit. It practiced instead the habit of reinvesting its income into new markets. This it did to make possible for its customers to make wider choices for the company's offerings.

Tip No. 4: Your home based business should be run like Amazon. You could be selling your single information product now. Two weeks from today you will have added another back end product. Next month you will have introduced into your product line the inventory of the affiliate program you have joined in.

Tip No. 5: If your web site is content based, you should be adding new content every day. Casual visitors to your web site will become your regular visitors when they see new content every time they come back to your site. And these visitors will in the end become your regular customers.

Be a Generalist
A generalist is one who does a multitude of things. In computer language it is known as multi-tasking. This has been the culture at Amazon.

Tip No. 6: You as the single person in your home business must be a generalist, too. This means doing and knowing everything that goes in and out of your business.

You don't know any HTML coding? This is tolerable. You must strive however to understand at least the basic formatting that goes into you site code. This way you can make small insertions into your web pages when your web designer is nursing a cold or is out of town. Or you can learn a thing or two on scripting. By the way, HTML tutorial is one of several categories among the home based business free learning stuff presented in my web site.

Work Ethic
Jeff Bezos was the company CEO and he and his wife were the first workers at Amazon. Their work ethic was marked with hard work and consistency, among others. These traits were handed down to their employees through the years.

Tip No. 7: To succeed and last long in your Internet business, you should work hard to put your business online in the fastest and frugal manner possible. The important thing to consider is to start up and put your small business online early and rapidly. If you have to wake up at two in the morning to do your Internet work, by all means stick to this routine.

Tip No. 8: You should be consistent in your business-related tasks. If your content needs updating twice weekly, follow this schedule with devotion. Visitors to your web site will notice even slight changes to your content when they go back to visit your web pages. Not to mention the search engine spiders which would just be too glad (i.e., in electron manner of speaking) to index new contents to your web site.

Be First to Embrace Technology
Amazon was among the first, if not the first, to adopt online book retailing. When the major book sellers - Barnes & Noble and Borders Books among others - realized this new way of selling books, Amazon was miles ahead. Jeff Bezos surveyed the Internet horizon and embraced the best technology on sight.

Tip No. 9: New technologies come and go almost daily. Some of these technologies enable you to run your business fast and easy. Other technologies rob you of your investment. Your duty is to examine each technology and assimilate into your business the best.

By: Rick Tanzo