What Is AdSense?

AdSense is one way to monetize your website and bring in additional revenue. AdSense is Google’s advertising network for publishers (people with websites). When you enroll in AdSense, you are agreeing to show ads on your site that advertisers bought through AdWords. Every time one of your site visitors clicks on an ad, you make a small amount of money. The service is free to publishers.

Essentially, you are selling advertising space for merchants to place ads on your website. These are ads that are supposed to be relevant to your site’s content pages. Sometimes AdSense does not display the best ads at first, but this situation can usually be fixed quickly. AdSense is popular with bloggers and with information sites. It may not be as good on eCommerce sites, as it could take away from the focus on your products.

AdSense only works as an income stream if the traffic to your site is high. And although it takes a while to build traffic to your site, you can have AdSense in place for when the traffic does increase. Here’s what the technical publisher, O’Reilly says about the likelihood of earning money from Adsense:

If your site gets tons of visitors, and you focus on a narrow topic, there’s a good chance Google will serve up ads that appeal to a lot of people hitting your site. For example, if you run a popular site devoted to mobile gadgetry, you might make enough to buy a new device every few months. If your site gets sporadic traffic, or more important, if it’s not clearly about something, it may be hard for Google to supply highly relevant ads, and you might make enough to cover a box of paper clips every so often.

There are many alternatives to AdSense, but this one might be the most well-known and well-used pay-per-click network because of Google’s high profile approach to search and advertising.

Learn more about AdSense here: www.google.com/adsense.

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