What is Google Adsense and How Can You Make Money with it?
Google AdSense is the massive Google advertising platform which allows you to let advertisers show themselves on your blog or website. The idea is to let advertisers get more exposure on the internet while at the same time letting bloggers and website owners make a bit of money every time the advertiser’s link is clicked on. Using Google AdSense to make money online will not generally net you tens of thousands of dollars a month, but it is a very easy way to make a little extra money off your website.
How it Works
Google has tens of thousands of advertisers clamouring to have a slice of the Google pie to call their own. This slice comes in the form of links on websites cached on Google. They can be small text links on the side of your blog or website, or things with graphics and sound if you’re so inclined. The advertisers pay Google a subscription for the services and then a portion of this money goes to the bloggers and website owners who have successfully advertised on behalf of companies loosely associated with their site. Every time someone clicks on a link on your site, money is added to your account and you can get paid out starting as low as $10.00. Google AdSense is free to use and works on every single blogging platform and website style imaginable. It also gets along fine with other forms of advertising such as selling text link space.
What do You Need?
You need a few things to be accepted into Google AdSense and make money from it:
A Google account, aA website of your very own with at least 10 pages on it (or 10 blog posts if that’s your thing). This shows that you are committed to your site and having it be www.yoursite.com is more profitable in Google’s eyes than a free hosted site with its own pop-up ads and a huge name. Conversely, Blogger (google’s blog site) will let you host a free blog and still get along with AdSense.
That’s all! Apply for Google AdSense, wait about 24 hours to be accepted and then follow the steps to insert ads into your website.
How Much Can I Make?
This is literally and figuratively the million dollar question! Google doesn’t actually disclose how much you make per click because each ad is worth different amounts of money depending on how competitive it is. You can check your daily invoice by logging into your account, but even that will only give you an average amount per click.
While stories abound of people making five figure amounts every month, it’s far more likely that you’ll make a few hundred dollars or up to a few thousand dollars a month if you have several well established and popular sites. Remember, how many advertisements do you click on when surfing the ‘net? How can you reasonably expect tens of thousands of clicks a month? You can’t. But, and this is a big one, you can make enough money to cover the costs of your website and then quite a bit more without doing anymore work than what you’d be doing for your website anyway. It’s one of the best forms of passive income and installing Google AdSense costs you nothing more than signing up for a Google account.
Google AdSense is almost a must-have if you want to make money off your websites, especially the ones that are strictly informative such as a blog. It is easy to use, free to install, and is very popular, so you should be able to make at least a bit of money without any more effort that you normally put into your blogs. All in all, it’s an excellent system for making money online.
