Google Adsense

Well, well, well my first actual post about making money. Since this blog is being run by blog spot and all that I thought I would start out by telling you all about probably the simplest way to make money on a blog. Google Adsense!

Google Adsense is a program that uses a certain type of web crawler, a program that searches a page, to find out information about your blog and put up ads that are relevent to your blog. If you are using a blogspot blog than it is real easy to add adsense to your account. And using wordpress or any other type of blog is just as easy as well though I am only going to give directions for blogspot blogs.

First you want to log into your dashboard. When you see your dashboard and can see all the buttons next to your blogs and such, click on the link that says layout. You should come to a page that looks like your blog where you can move things around and stuff. Next you want to click on the ad gadget button which will open up a new window with all sorts of gadgets you can open. Adsense by googel should be one of their top gadgets and you just want to click add and it will prompt you to use an existing account or creat one. And depending on what you have to do creat or use an existing just go a head and do that. When your done adsense will crawl your blog and tell you if you are approved and within 48 hours you will have your first pay per click ad!!! 

So a couple of things you might have noticed in that last paragraph was that you need to get approved and that you are payed by click. Well when I say you need to be approved I mean that your blog needs to be deemed appropriate for the web and your content needs to be approved by adsense. And as far as pay per click goes, pay per click is the most common way ads are payed out. Just think of it like this someone isn't going to pay for ad space if no one is using the ads so advertisers instead pay anywhere from $.25-$.50 for a click maybe even more. the general rule I have found is that about 1/5 people who visit your blog click on relevent ads. I know that if I visit a blog I always like to click on any ads that catch my eye.

 Now that the set up is out of the way let me say a few things about running adsense on your site. There are alot of bloggers out there that do not like ads, but if you aren't one of them then adsense is perfect. But there is one thing still that you should never do and that is to start a blog just to put adsense on there. Adsense is a great way to make money but never blog just for adsense.

Now that should have you set up for starters but there are a few things that we will need to talk about once you get started. For instance in order to get paid you must first make $100 dollars, this is because they want to know that your ads are activly being used and that their program is not going to waste. Also you will need to set up all of your setting and such on your account at the google adsense page.