What
is Google Adsense?
What
is google adsense? Well to get the full rundown its probably
best to go to google's pages and read the guidelines and such,
however, to put it simply adsense is a simple way
of advertising on your website and making a profit from people
who click through to those ads. It works
like this:
Once
you have a website built (no 'in development' or half built
websites) then you can approach google to see if they will
let you use their adsense scheme. Now obviously they have
some guidelines such as no offensive or pornographic sites,
or site that are just adverts and such like, but if you
build a website with a fair bit of content, or have a hobby
or interest website, then this is a good way to make a bit
of extra cash.
If
and when you are accepted, you can choose the format of the
ads you wish to display and copy and paste a little bit of
code into your website, this is very easy to do. This will
then display ads on your page(s) - you can add this same code
to every page.
Google
will then analyse the content of the page, and display ads
it thinks are relevant to that particular page, (a little
like the ads down the right of google itself) i.e.
if the page is all about snooker cue's, then the adds will
most likely be for snooker cues and snooker related products.
Now
Google won't tell you how much you will get per click, but
this obviously depends on the amount the advertisers are paying
per click. Ie the higher the better. So for example a website
about insurance that displays ads for car insurance will no
doubt be worth more per click to you that say.. a site about
fishing bait, which I doubt has a particulary high cost per
click. (not that I have checked... but you get the gist)
However,
you can see in your reports (daily if you like) what the click
through rates are and how much you have earned, so its pretty
easy to figure out your average earning per click (they even
tell you this.)
So,
the bottom line is, if you have a website already, sign up!
if not, then why not build a hobby website about your interests,
and then monetize it with googleadsense. Makes sense to me. |
