Making Money with Adsense: 3 Adsense Rules to Live By

Writers: Learn How to Make Money with the Google Adsense Advertising Program

Chris McCarthy
What is Adsense?

Google's AdSense advertising program is one of the best ways for bloggers and website owners to make money online. AdSense allows website owners and bloggers to post ads on their sites for which they earn revenue when a visitor to their site clicks on the ads displayed.

Here are three basic AdSense rules to know as you get started with the AdSense program. There will be a lot more that you will learn as you begin to implement your AdSense strategy, such as ad placement, size of the ads, and how many to have on a particular page. This list should serve as a primer, several things to keep in mind as you start with AdSense. Once you have these rules ingrained, and if you follow them you will be well on your way to earning money with Adsense.

1) Create Relevant Content. Write good quality articles and posts that help people gain knowledge or that provide other information. This is the most important part of your website. It seems obvious, but some people seem to ignore the quality of their content, instead focusing on advertising and linking "schemes" to try to make money. Your website's success all boils down to the content. You can have the most intricately-designed site, but people won't come back if they don't get anything out of your content.

2) Use relevant keywords. If you write an article about Hawaiian vacations, make sure you use a consistent keyword phrase relating to Hawaiian vacations several times throughout the article. Now, don't spam of course by loading your article with 30 of the same keyword phrases--that's one way to guarantee that your articles never see the light of day in a search engine. First and foremost, write a good quality article. Again, see how this boils down to your content.

3) Write consistently about certain topics. If you have a website about pets, make sure all or most of your articles are germane to that topic. This way, your AdSense ads will be more targeted and will be clicked more, increasing your revenue.

These three rules will help you make more money with AdSense. Making sure your content is strong, well-written, relevant, and contains keywords placed appropriately is the foundation of AdSense success. If you write interesting, helpful content, not only will they come, they will come back.You may be wondering how to get started publishing and earning money online. Starting a blog is one of the best ways to get started. Blogs are easy to maintain and very user friendly. Furthermore, search engines love blogs, so they pop up in searches often. This is a good thing, because the more people who see your work, the more people will also click the Adsense ads on your page.

A great place to start a blog where you can earn money with Adsense is Xomba.com. You sign up and can start writing a blog immediately. You just have to put in your Adsense code and then your ads will start to display around your articles. There are thousands of visitors to Xomba everyday, so you will get readers and start earning quicker than you would if you started your own blog at blogger.com. Blogger is a very cool place to start a site, but it takes a long time to start to get readers. If you want to start a blog later, you can always promote it form Xomba and anywhere else you publish content.

Published by Chris McCarthy

I'm a writer and copywriter. I mostly write internet content and I'm passionate about internet business and helping people make better blogs and websites. PS. I'm not a polar bear.  View profile

  • Article writers make money using the Google Adsense advertising program.
  • Write good content and you will always be able to get readers and earn money.
  • Xomba.com is one of the best places to start a blog online.
You can start writing and earning money right now by starting your own blog. A lot of people start one for free at blogger.com or at Xomba.com.

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  • Tina Molly Lang10/14/2008

    Glad I found this article. I signed up for a xomba account today and wanted to hear testimonials.

  • C. McCarthy7/18/2008

    If you guys have any questions about adsense, let me know and I'll include the info in future articles.

  • Lets6/6/2008

    Good information!!! I have my Adsense but am not active in there.

  • Jeanne Gibson5/8/2008

    Thanks for sharing. My AdSense clicks seem to have slowed a bit lately, so your article gave me a nudge to look over my strategy a bit. I know I don't use keywords nearly enough, so I'll start with that.

  • Randy Inman5/2/2008

    Nice tips thanks for the article!

  • jcorn5/1/2008

    Thanks for the information.

  • C. McCarthy5/1/2008

    Thanks for your comment Paula. I tried to provide some things that I learned over several months to a year by trial and error. Hopefully, people find these tips useful.

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