Making Money with Google AdSense

If you’re a writer, you need your own website. Putting up a website costs time and if you get a unique domain address, it will cost you money as well. To help make your website pay for itself, consider putting ads on your web pages.

The simplest way to put ads on your website is by signing up with Google AdSense. What you do is post ads on the top, sides, and/or bottom of your web pages. Now whenever anyone clicks on an ad, you get paid a few cents per click. The more people you get visiting your website, the more likely someone will click on a Google ad. So the key is simply to create a great website that gets people coming back again and again.

You can choose the size and placement of Google ads, and you can even block certain ads from appearing so that way a competitor’s ads don’t appear on your website. Generally as a writer, you don’t really care what types of ads appear although Google prevents pornography ads from appearing. On your website, you simply allocate space for a Google ad. Now when anyone visits your website, they actually see a different Google ad based on their own search behavior.

If one person used Google to search for cars and then visited your site, they would see Google ads related to cars. If someone else used Google to search for pet food and then visited your site, they would likely see Google ads related to pets.

You make money each time somebody clicks on a Google ad, but if you click on your own ads, Google’s algorithms can detect the difference between normal clicks (that occur randomly during the day) vs. deliberate clicks that typically occur from the same computer in rapid succession. If you click on yoor own ads, Google will likely dismiss you from their AdSense program.

Even though each click on a Google ad may only earn you a few cents each time, it all adds up. When your total reaches $100, Google will send you a check or transfer the money to your bank account. Basically, if you have a website, you might as well put Google ads on there just to earn a little extra money.

Now the whole effectiveness of Google ads depends on getting as many people as possible to visit your website regularly, and the best way to insure that is to promote your website and provide useful, interesting information on a regular basis so people keep coming back for more. Ultimately, the success of your Google ad income depends entirely on your website providing useful information.

If you write your book as a series of blog posts, you’ll attract an audience that wants your type of writing whether it’s publishing individual parts of your novel as blog posts or providing useful information for a nonfiction topic. Whatever you’re writing, write it as a series of blog posts to attract people. The more people your website attracts, the greater the chance that someone will click on a Google ad and earn you money as a result.

Google ads are simply a numbers game, and the best way to increase the number of visitors to your website is to consistently create useful information that causes people to keep coming back over and over again.

That’s why you need to narrow the focus of your writing to a niche. You might write romance novels that take place in small towns while somebody else might write romance novels that take place in big cities. As long as you create a distinctive niche for yourself, your blog can satisfy that niche while weeding out those people who aren’t interested in your type of writing. Build your audience, blog your book, and you’ll wind up creating a website that promotes your books, provides a teaser of information that your audience wants, and earns you a passive income through Google ads at the same time.

Make your website work for you in multiple ways, and you’ll be surprised at how the support of your website’s audience can translate into steady sales of e-books along with regular income through Google ads. Google ads simply help your website pay for itself. If you already have a website without displaying ads of any kind, you’re essentially letting advertising opportunities pass you by. Who knows how much extra money you could have earned if you had just placed Google ads on your website a long time ago.

Now think of how much money you won’t have three years from now if you don’t put Google ads on your website right now, and that should motivate you into believing that Google ads can be one more way to help your website earn you extra income with little additional work on your part.