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Google Adsense and How It Works

Written by: Mathew Tamin

Article Overview: Google Adsense is a unique program that can produce a lot of revenues over time if you are patient. Here is a discussion of Google Adsense and how it works.

Google Adsense and How It Works

Google Adsense is a unique program that can produce a lot of revenues over time if you are patient. Here is a discussion of Google Adsense and how it works.

Google Adsense and How It Works To understand Google Adsense and how it works, you first have to understand Google Adwords. Adwords is a program where people can bid per click to buy space on platforms Google supports with advertisements. This includes the ads you see on the top and down the right column of results when you search on Google.

Adsense is the result of a crafty little idea wherein Google essentially wanted to maximize distribution of Adwords. With Adsense, Google took the unique approach of letting independent sites, such as this one, place certain types of Adwords advertisements on their pages. You can see an example above this paragraph and farther down in the text.

The beauty of Google Adsense is it creates additional revenue sources for sites. For instance, lets assume someone bids 60 cents in Adwords for the placement of their ads. A site then shows those ads through the Adsense program. When an ad is clicked by a person on that site, Google charges the advertiser and splits the money with the site in question. The exact amount of the split is not provided by Google, but is known to reflect the quality of traffic, click through rates and other aspects.

The Google Adsense program is incredibly simple to use. You sign up through Google and, once approved, are able to select the format of ads you want to list on the pages of your site. Google then immediately generates a java script, which you copy and paste into the html of your pages. You cannot change the code, but you can select any old location on your page you want.

Once you have inserted the code and republished your site, it is time to sit back and watch. Google provides stats within your account area. You can see basic click and revenue information as well as monthly totals. Once you reach a total of $100 in revenues, Google will kick out a check to you. The check is issued more or less at the end of the month following the one in which you hit the magic $100 amount.

Obviously, there is more to Google Adsense and how it works if you want to make a lot of money, but this provides the basics of the game. You will be tempted to click the links on your page. Don't! Google will ban you from the program.

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Related Forum Posts
Adsense question...Evan? Anybody? - Many people contribute to my various webzines because I promise them renumeration in the form of revenue from anyone who clicks on the Google Adsense ads on the pages where their articles appear. I've been doing this by creating a separate channel for each contributor, so I can keep track of each person's income, and it works fine. What I'd like to do for a new project, however, is have my contributors give me the code for [i:2vwhwtl0]their [/i:2vwhwtl0]Google Adsense account, so that when they check their account, the clicks show up there and the money goes immediately into their account. This way they *know* what they're getting, and don't have to take me on trust. And it also saves time, moneywise, of course, since they get it right away instead of waiting for me to disburse it every 3 months or so. So my question is, would it violate Google Adsense guidelines for me to have other people's AdSense codes on my site? Evan, I know you've done something like this, where we get a *percentage* of any clicks on threads we started (and I've gotten a wee bit, by the way) ... did you work a special deal with Google or is it something they allow with no fuss? I hate reading small print, which is why I'm asking here instead of trying to read Google's TOS...
Re: Poll: Blogger or Wordpress Blog? - One of the advantages of having a blogger blog is a fast approval for adsense. If you want to start earning with Google Adsense open a new blog and add Adsense to it and get approved immediately.
Re: From $0.30 to $300 / Day on Google AdSense Part 1 - How To M - Evan, Do you find that you earn a higher CPM when you replace Google Adsense with 3rd party advertising? Or do you find that Google Adsense still provides more revenue? Do you have any advice for website owners (myself included) on what level of traffic a company needs to pull in to attract 3rd party advertisers? Also, have you had any success on selling your advertising space to 3rd party companies who handle the sales for you? Jeff
Re: From $0.30 to $300 / Day on Google AdSense Part 1 - How To M - Most of my traffic, around 80%, comes from Google for my niche site. The clicks are decent, but the EPC is terrible. I never started the site hoping to make it big with Adsense anyway. I promote various Clickbank products and CPA ads and have already made two sales through Clickbank. To me, that's a much better alternative rather than focusing purely on Adsense. I also picked up an advertiser for the site, just out of the blue. I'll make much more from selling ad space versus Adsense. It's a hot niche, but for some reason the Adsense ads just don't bring in much. Traffic is very good, so for anyone else that might be in a similar situation, I recommend finding targeted products you can sell through Clickbank or another affiliate network. Also try to find third party advertisers if possible.
Re: Search Engine Engineer Needed! - Hi dtmpower, I guess you can start with free option - Using Google Search. You can find it in your Google Adsense account. If you have the budget you can post on different forums and ask people for help.


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