How To Make Money With Adsense
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Google’s AdSense program is a great and easy way to make money online. The fundamental idea is very simple: insert relevant, text-based ads into your content and make money whenever visitors click one of those ads. It’s very easy.
A bit of cut-and-paste is all you need to place AdSense ads on your site. Google scans the page to automatically select relevant ads, so there’s very little work involved on your part. It’s so simple to start using AdSense.
No, what’s hard with AdSense is the same problem that all website-based content monetization schemes face: content and traffic. You can’t make money with AdSense without both. No content, no visitors — and no visitors, no clicks! It’s not hard to understand at all.
Most successful AdSense publishers have more than one site. They’ve built a “network” of AdSense sites, each of which may only earn them a few dollars (or a few tens of dollars) per day in earnings. But get enough sites in your network and those dollars add up — 200 sites earning even an average of $1/day is $200/day in earnings, or about $6000 per month. That’s the equivalent of a full-time salary for a lot of people.
Building 100 or 200 or even 1000 sites may seem like a daunting task, and it is to some degree. You need to gather a lot of content. You need to get cheap, flat-rate web hosting. You need to get keyword-rich domain names (also cheaply). You need tools to help build and manage those sites.
Creating your AdSense network doesn’t take as much work as think it does if you follow a few simple tricks. The first is to minimize content: start out with small sites and see what works and what doesn’t. Then do everything you can to get visitors to come back, usually by getting them to sign up for a mailing list. Don’t forget to use affiliate links embedded in your content for extra income. And make sure all the pages link to each other and follow basic search engine optimization rules.
In the end, what you really need is a proper business plan for your AdSense content network. Start small, and attack a variety of niches. Use the tricks mentioned above. Then build on what you have. Do the legwork and in a few months you’ll have a very profitable AdSense business.
