Make Cents from AdSense

By Quintus Rangasamy

What is Google Adsense? How do I use it to my advantage? Can I really earn a substantial income from Adsense? To be successful, time and patience is an asset you simply must have.

What is Google Adsense? It is a fantastic advertising medium conceived by Google quite some time ago. It is unique in the internet advertising world. Basically, by owning a website, you allow Google to advertise on your website. If a visitor to your site clicks on one of these ads, you earn a small commission. It really is as simple as that. The website owner needs to register with Adsense and then insert a piece of code onto your site which would enable your advertising space.

How do you fine tune your website to maximize profits from Google ? It should fairly obvious, the first thing you need to do use is get as much traffic to your sight as possible. Once that is achieved, you need to convert that traffic into clicks. If you are looking at earning a substantial income from Adsense, its advisable to have more than 1 website.

Once you have the traffic, your site needs to entice or prompt visitors to click on one of your ads. The ads need to suit your website in many ways. The ads need to look 'in place' and more attractive to visitors. Google realizes this and offer you tools to help you customize ads in various ways such as color, size and shape. The important thing is that your ads should look part of your website and blend in perfectly with the rest of your content.

Revenue with Adsense is totally dependent on you and your abilities. There are 4 important guidelines to follow which could guarantee your success. Use channels, this is to see what websites are making more revenue than others so you can delete the websites that are costing you money. Shape, size and color, as mentioned are very important for the ads to blend in with your website. You need to have quality content on your site. Provide regular updates and quality content, you will see more traffic to your website, resulting in more clicks. If your site has multiple pages, be sure to include ads on all pages, this can only increase your click through rate.

Lastly, one must not misuse Adsense. The temptation is there to click repeatedly on your ads, or the temptation to ask friends and family to go crazy and click continuously on your ads. Never do this. You will simply be banned from Adsense and will lose any potential earnings.