What is AdSense?
AdSense is a way to make money online by placing advertisements in our blogs or websites. AdSense lets publishers or bloggers make money simple and fast without selling anything. It is a service provided by Google, which makes it stable and trusty.
Some webmasters have reported earning a lot of money thru AdSense. However, they have been in the game for years. For newbies, it is best to expect AdSense earnings of $2-3 per day. As our content and ranking grows, our income will follow.
AdSense is contextual, meaning the ads that shows in the ad block are related to the subject of a particular web page. It does not work for all kinds of blogs or websites. It is best to use AdSense if most visitors of our blogs or websites came from Google and other search engines.
How do we use AdSense?
It is easy to make use of AdSense, simply follow the steps:
- AdSense is a Google service and we need to have a Gmail account. Go get one here.
- Sign up for AdSense here. The sign-up page is also our login page.
- Follow the instructions to put some JavaScript code into the template of our blog or website. If we are using a blog platform or a Content Management System (CMS), there are plugins or widgets that make this simple.
When visitors from Google come to our web page, they see ads that automatically adjust to its content. When they click on an ad link, Google counts that click and we get rewarded for it. The clicks we get usually depends on the composition of our visitors (the more web savvy crowd are less likely to click on AdSense), the source of our visitors (those coming from the search engines are more likely to click), and the position or location of the ad blocks.
A word of caution, do not try to cheat AdSense. Many have tried and failed, resulting in banned accounts.
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Have you actually had much luck with Adsense? It generally underperforms on tech savvy audiences like yours.
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Honestly, we’re not earning as much we want from Adsense on RMO or our other blogs, yet. We’re still working on increasing from the search engines.
But, surprisingly, RMO does hold its own against our 2 non-technical ones when it comes to Adsense income.
RMO is not really for the tech-savvie. It’s more for beginners and we use keywords that we think somebody who is just starting out and looking for information will use.
We also doesn’t display Adsense when a post is only 3 days old.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.