Sep 22 2007

How To Begin With Adsense?

Google AdSense program is the foremost and successful ad network that is operational on the internet now. It’s the prime choice of every webmaster who decides to monetize his website to earn money online, even mine, though a debate is going on whether or not to monetize a website, the reason pointed against being that the ads may irritate your loyal visitors. Even you could read what annoys me while at a website by going through Top Ten Ways to Annoy Your Website Visitors!

What is AdSense?

AdSense is basically a pay-per-click/pay-per-impression program, i.e., you earn a few bucks if a lot of traffic is there to your site or if a visitor at your site clicks on the ad/link that is interesting him and gets redirected to the page displayed by the ad. (You may pose a silly question, what if you deceive by clicking ads yourself on your own website. The answer is simple; you get banned from the program).

Where could I sign up for Google AdSense program?

You may begin with Google AdSense signup page. For an easy process of signing up, it will be nice if you have a gmail ID (optional).

How to set up AdSense?

Where to sign up for Google Adsense and how to set up Adsense codes?

After signing up, check your inbox for an email from Google to verify your email address. Once you’ve verified your email address, Google officials will review your application and follow up with you via email within the next two-three days. If you are successfully accepted into the program (I don’t see any cause for rejection if you’re genuine and do not have the intention of violating Google’s program policies), you will be able to log into your AdSense account, generate the ad codes, copy and paste it to your site wherever you want the ads to appear. If you are using WordPress for site creation, check out AdSense Deluxe plugin which I have described in Top Ten WordPress Plugins of MT Herald, a handy tool for global management of AdSense ads throughout your website. The relevant ads (contextual ads) that compliment your articles will be maintained by Google, so that you don’t have the headache of choosing ads to match with your contents. If at all if you want to block any of your competitors’ ads on your site that too can be taken care of. A lot of sizes/formats too are available for you to choose, so that you could pick up the right one that suits your needs.

It is free to sign up. It’s free to use. Whenever you have a credit of more than $100 in your AdSense account, Google mails you a check at the end of that billing month. For many, this will lessen the burden of hosting and traffic charges, so nothing to lose, it’s a win-win deal. In order to have an AdSense account, you need to have a website, can even be free hosted web pages like those on blogger.com. There are bloggers who even earn more than $100,000 per year. So what are you waiting for? Signup for Google AdSense and start earning from today!

Don’t forget to read my next post “How to Optimize AdSense?

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