If you’re new to the world of making money online, you may not yet know that it’s possible to make money with Google. Yes the search engine. Even if you have heard bits and pieces of this idea here and there, you may not be fully aware of exactly how this works or whether it’s a legitimate way to make money online.
First and foremost: Yes you can make money with Google. In fact, you can do this in two entirely different ways.
Secondly: Beware of scams and shady offers. There are questionable products online which claim that you can get paid to place ads on Google. And while this is technically true to an extent, it’s not nearly that cut and dry. There’s a heck of a lot of information they’re leaving out, the least of which is usually that you have to pay money to place those ads.
This article isn’t addressing that side of the Google equation though. Instead here we’ll talk about how to make money with Google’s AdSense program.
Google unfortunately helps create some of the confusion themselves because they have two similar but opposite programs named in similar ways: AdWords and AdSense.
AdWords allows you to pay money to place advertisements on the Google search engine pages.
AdSense allows you to EARN money by displaying advertisements on your website.
AdSense is a great way to make money online, because you can start small and earn money the very first day of putting it into place. Over time with work and effort, you can grow the AdSense earnings into a nice monthly income.
Some people earn enough money with AdSense each month to simply supplement other income they earn, while others actually make a full time living from it. And a very special select few make hundreds of thousands of dollars each year from AdSense alone.
Generally, you’ll earn a few cents to a few dollars for each click.
To make any money at all from AdSense though, you first need to have a website. You can use free sites to start with, and a popular one is Blogger because it’s owned by Google and it’s extremely easy to set up.
Having your own website and domain name is usually best however, and if you decide to start making money online with AdSense you will learn the pros and cons of this over time. To start with though, any website will work as long as it is on a topic that Google allows AdSense ads to be displayed on. You are not allowed to put AdSense on websites which deal with adult topics for example, or illegal topics and content, or gambling.
Now the sites which make the most money from AdSense are those which get a lot of traffic. Traffic is simply the number of human visitors who come to your site for information, pictures, products, and various other reasons. If you can get real people to come to your website, you can earn money from AdSense.
The reason traffic is so important when it comes to making money with AdSense is because you earn money each time one of the ads is clicked by your visitor. Not all visitors will click an ad on your site though, just a small percentage of them will. So the more visitors you have to the site, the more clicks you are able to get. And each click earns you a little more money.
Most websites which make good money from AdSense tend to provide information in the form of articles or other written content. You could create tutorials for example, about how to use specific cell phones. You could write articles and reports about how to successfully complete a popular video game. You could write about daily news topics, teach people how to cook or clean, and even just share travel or hobby notes too.
Successful and profitable AdSense sites can be created in a wide variety of ways. Some are fairly informal and even personal, while others are professional or educational. There are also fun and entertaining sites which provide videos, photos, hand drawn graphics, and jokes or funny stories too.
Creating any type of content which is popular enough to draw large amounts of traffic regularly is the key to earning great money with Google AdSense. Keeping this at the forefront of your mind in everything you do will generate the best long term results and profits.
As you can probably tell this article only touches on the surface of making money with AdSense. There are a lot of intricacies, techniques and tactics that people use to try and earn more money from AdSense but if you keep the above basics in mind you’ll get an excellent start on the process, then you can learn about additional strategies and tactics as you become more experienced and comfortable with this method of making money online.
