Make Money on Your website with Google AdSense

First Steps

You have to remember that before signing up with Google AdSense, you should have a website or weblog to incorporate with the program. Not all sites are accepted (but most are). You have to make sure that you have a relevant site, that offers unique and valuable content, as well as creative design that does not include too many advertisements.

Not only that, you must have a steady traffic in your site, in order to qualify for Google AdSense. So your site must have a lot of content and a sizable audience. Find a niche that you really love and feel passionate about. You should do some research to ensure the niche you chose is popular. You want to target a niche that is popular and has an active online community, which you will need to get involved in to promote your site.

Choosing a Layout

Once your site is ready and approved by Google AdSense, it's time to log in and configure your new AdSense advertisement to include on your site.
First click on "AdSense for Content". Don't worry: configuration is pretty easy and kinda fun too, you get to pick colors, sizes, and much more. Then your next step will be to decide what type of advertisements you want Google to serve up on your pages.

You can start out with a text Ad unit, which is more useful, flexible and have a higher payout compared to the other content adverts. The next section of your task is to specify the format and layout of your AdSense ad, and there are a rather amazing number of different size and format options. Google has a helpful AdSense Ad Format Reference Page that's worth a quick peek.

Once the layout is decided, you can net change the color scheme of the ad. Try to choose a color scheme that both blends with your sites colors, but is still visible enough to 'pop', you may need to experiment a bit to find just the right colors. It helps people not gloss over them and, hopefully, click on the ads a bit more frequently.

Define alternate URL and Channel

Define an alternate ad when a keyword does not have an advertiser bidding. By default, Google displays public service ads (PSAs), but if you want to create an HTML snippet that produces the same size content, you can use that instead, or, you can simply have a solid box in the color of your choice that blends into the design of your site.

Once your ad unit is all set up, Google will produce some code for your site. Next open your website or blog and find the spot where you want your ads to display, and paste in the new code by using Edit --> Paste.

Save your template and rebuild your site, or, if it's just a page, save the page back onto the server and bring it up in your web browser and check that an ad is displaying in the right place.

These are just the first steps to setting up an Adsense website. You can choose the best layout's and color schemes that you like. It is really up to you on how you want to make your ads work and match with your site. The amount of money you can make with Google adsense is very much influenced by how much traffic your site gets and the competiveness of the keyword generating your adsense ads.

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