What is Adsense?

AdSense is a wonderful advertising concept that was conceived by Google some time back. Though new advertising concepts keep coming up all the time, this one is something that is altogether different.

AdSense is Google's advertising program and presents an earning opportunity to website owners by allowing Google to post advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are either text advertisements or image based advertisements. Of course, the website owners need to enroll to the AdSense program through the relevant section at Google's website.

Google AdSense program requires you, the website owner, to include a piece of code called a programming script on your website. You can add this piece of code anywhere in the HTML code of your website, depending on where you want to position the advertisements. However, there are certain rules that you must follow while pasting this scripting code. This piece of code is what determines the structure of advertisements and their content and is what helps Google in floating the advertisements on your website. When people visit your website they are able to see these advertisements.

Your earnings are based on how many Google Ads are displayed on your website and also based on how many times visitors to your website actually click on one of those Ads. The Google AdSense system calculates your revenue on per-click (CPC) and per-thousand-Ads-displayed (CPM) basis. The latter is also known as impressions.

For people who want to advertise their products and services through the Google AdSense system, it's just a matter of signing up through the Google Adwords program and then letting Google know how much they want to spend towards advertising through Google AdSense. These businesses can specify the limit and Google AdSense system will accordingly serve their Ads so as to ensure that the specified limit is not crossed. Google AdSense increases the visibility of their business/ services and also increases traffic to their website; hence fulfilling their purpose of advertising.