By Mitz
This is the big question on everyone’s lips. Can you really make money by putting Google adsense on your web site or are all those success stories just a myth? Well some people have made huge amounts of money from placing Google’s targeted ads on their web page, but it is still a lot of hard work. This biggest myth may be that making money with Google adsense is easy.
Yes you will make money if you invest a lot of time and effort into optimizing and positioning your ads.
Factors that will help make money from adsense
- Interesting and original content.
- High rankings in the search engines.
- Paid advertising to get traffic to your site.
- Placing your ads in strategic positions.
- Formatting the colour, size and background of your ads.
Interesting and original content. Obviously the more information you have the more traffic you attract. Having great content will also encourage repeat visitors. People do not want to return to a website that provided no value to them.
Formatting the colour, size and background of your ads. The best way is to experiment with different colours and formats until you come across a working formula. Most people say it is best to have text ads that have no background, or the same as your webpage, and no border either. This way they blend with your content, letting people sometimes presume it is part of the information you provide.
Definitely DO NOT
- Do not break the Google Adsense Rules (Get familiar with them) If you are caught breaking the rules, Google will expel you from the Adsense program and will not allow you back in.
- Do not click on your own ads and don’t ask others to click on them either. This is an obvious one. Why would they pay anyone to click on their own website ads.. DERRR!
- Do not change the Adsense code If you want to be paid for people clicking on the Google ads, you should not alter the html code of the ad provided. You may interfere or even stop the tracking of clicks on your ad and therefore loose money.
- Do not have a page full of ads and no content. Visitors will leave and Google will not know what ads to place on your page. Google Adsense would have to basically guess what ads to place on your webpage.
- Do not let your ads out weigh your page content. Even though a page may have great content, if you have to search through the ads to find the content, it will not work.
- Beware of all the gimmicks out there claiming to help you make money from Google Ads. All you have to do is sign up, get the html for a particular ad, and place it into your web site. When people start clicking on your ads, Google will track everything for you. All you have to do is watch your dollars accumulate.
Adsense has changed the basic structure and purpose of a webpage. It has allowed people to provide information to its visitors at no cost to them. In the early days of websites, you had to be actually selling something in order to make money. Google Adsense has become a great way to earn some extra cash and is very easy to add to your website.
In the end, the success of your website, and how much money you make, depends on how much traffic you can attract there.
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Here is the official Google website that shows the different ad sizes available.
