How to Make Money with Google AdSense

Google AdSense is a Pay Per Click affiliate program which tens of thousands of webmasters use to make money from their websites and blogs. New internet marketers often confuse the AdSense program with Google's counterpart: AdWords. So let's summarize the difference between the two...

AdSense is the program which allows you to place Google Advertisements onto your website or blog, and each time one of your visitors clicks those ads, you make money into your Google AdSense account. Once you've earned at least $100 in clicks, Google will send you a check the following month.

AdWords is where those ads come from. Advertisers go to Google and sign up for the AdWords advertising program. They then create advertisements for their websites and products, and enter how much money per click they are willing to pay each time someone clicks on their ads. AdWords advertisers must pay Google money to keep those ads running. The money paid to Google by those advertisers, is what Google shares with AdSense publishers.

Now, making money with AdSense is fairly simple, but it's not always overly easy. In most cases, you have to generate a lot of traffic to your websites and blogs in order to earn a lot of money from AdSense, because sometimes you are only paid a few cents each time someone clicks an ad. There are a few topics however, which will let you earn $1 or sometimes even as much as $10, each time someone clicks an ad on your site, but these are becoming less common each year.

There are several ways to make money with AdSense, and they all tend to revolve around creating content on a website. The most popular way is to set up a free blog, and then put the AdSense code on that blog. Then you simply make one or more blog posts every day, and generate traffic to that site. Over time as your traffic grows, some of those visitors will click your ads and you'll make money.

The second popular way to make money with AdSense, is to create general information style websites. Some people create many sites with just five or ten articles on each, and some people create larger sites which might have twenty to fifty articles on them. Creating a huge website with hundreds or thousands of articles on it is an excellent way to make money from AdSense too, but that usually takes some time to set up.

These types of "static" websites tend to be popular because once you get the initial content in place, all you have to do is start generating traffic. Unlike a blog you don't usually have to update a static site often.

One other excellent way to make money from AdSense is to start a website that's based on a forum. Starting a forum about a popular topic can often bring thousands of visitors back to the site every day. And some of those visitors will click ads that interest them. It takes time to built up a lot of traffic and members to a forum, but it can be a very lucrative way to make money from AdSense once you've become established.