Using Adsense on Your Blog

Posted by admin on Feb 1, 2009 in Monetization |

Once again, welcome back to the blog. Today’s post is going to discuss AdSense which I introduced in yesterday’s post but I am going to be going more in depth today. Let’s begin.

AdSense is Really Easy to Use

Like I talked about before, AdSense is an advertisement platform that a lot of webmasters use to make money from their blogs and websites. It’s quite simple to use and implement into any blog or website without having to know how to code anything. The first step is to sign up to Google Adsense. It’s pretty easy, just your regular sign up process. Enter your website information, your account type, your personal information, and then just submit the application. I think that there is a review process for applications but I can’t exactly remember but if there is one it’s minimal, probably about a day.

Once you get your account approved your next step is to create an ad to put on your site. This is also very easy to do with Google’s interface. Simply log in to your account, click on AdSense Setup, and then click AdSense for Content (you can use the other ones but I’m going to stick with this for now), then simply set up how you want the ad to look on your site, add a channel by entering your website name for the channel, name the ad something you can remember it by, and then hit complete. Now you have the code which you just have to put onto your website. Luckily we have our handy AdSense Manager plugin which we previously installed so it’s as easy as copy and paste into the box for the plugin. Once you do that you can add the advetisement wherever you need whether that be on your sidebar or in posts. Voila! Now we have ads on our blog so we can actually make some money!

Now that we have a way for us to make money we are on our way. Your advertisements should start to show up correctly within a few hours once Google figures out what your blog is about and then you will have targetted advertisements for your visitors. This is the first step of monetization but it’s a pretty important one. Now we just have to try and get some clicks Well, until tomorrow, have a good day.