Did you know once you have a popular blog with regularly published content you can add google adsense advertising and make money when visitors click on the adverts? Great! Sounds easy. Er, well no, it’s not. Your blog does have to be popular. You need plenty of traffic, which is not quite so easy. How do you get traffic? Time and promotion. It takes time for a blog to become popular. And while you are waiting, you will need to crank out good content to keep readers coming back, and promote every article. You’ll need to be marketer as well as a writer.
But when your blog is popular, sign up for an adsense account and place the code google provide on your blog. The rest is automatic. Google reads the content on your blog page and displays adverts to match the words in your content. If your blog page is about armadillos, google will place adverts about armadillos on your page. Every time your visitor clicks an advert, you get a percentage of what google charges the advertiser. However, you can probably see you won’t earn much, unless your blog is very popular. But it’s easy to do and adds to your online income.
In today’s featured video, professional blogger Darren Rowse has a few adsense optimisation tips. Darren’s blog at problogger is extremely popular and gets a ton of traffic, so putting adsense on his site gives him extra cash. He recommends choosing the position of the ads carefully. Place them where the readers eyes rest on the page. Blend your ads in with the blog design. And experiment with different types of ads.
Google adsense have a huge number of advertisers, so there will be ads to match your content, however obscure your topic. But adsense aren’t the only adverts you can add to your blog. In recent article ads aren’t all about adsense you know, clickbank, commission junction, linkshare, amazon and ebay can all be promoted on your blog. All of these consolidators have a massive database of advertisers. One of them may get better results than adsense.
Perhaps it should be wordpress, advertisers and money.
