GETTING STARTED WITH BLOGGING
So you’re interested in making money with AdSense? Well join the club. But before we get to the good stuff, we have to build the foundation. Chances are good that if you’re reading this you know what blogs are and how to create them. Good for you! You’re on the fast track to getting started with AdSense. But patience grasshoppa, we must help those who don’t even know what blogging is.
Here’s the definition of a blog from Wikipedia:
“A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.”
A blog is basically an online diary - A journal written by an author, about the author and/or the author’s interests. The great thing about a blog is there are no boundaries whatsoever. You can blog about your dog, cat, career, relationships, car, favorite ice cream, etc, etc. You have total control to be as creative as your heart desires!
The important thing about this journey is that you blog about something that matters to you. Different people have different interests and you’re no exception. Chances are good that others just like you are ready to delve into your material because they have similar tastes. Don’t hesitate to write about something you’re passionate about - just do it!
CREATING A BLOG SITE
Google's AdSense sounds interesting to you. You like the idea of legitimately making money online with advertisements. You even went so far as to read my last post: Getting Started with Blogging! But you have no idea how to get setup - until now.
I do Web Consulting for a living (no, I'm not a full-time blogger… yet). I'd say on a scale of 1-10 of web knowledge I'm probably near a 9, maybe a 9.1. But guess what? You don't have to know squat about web design or web programming. Of course you'll have to learn some web terminology along the way but you can start at ground zero today. The great thing about blogging and potentially earning money with AdSense is that you don't have to be a web guru.
I repeat: you do not have to be a web guru to start a blog and use AdSense.
There is a wide range of blogging tools out there. Some free, some not. If you haven't noticed, I'm using a tool called: Blogger. Before this I had experimented with Typepad and even created my own (this was a few years ago when the term “Blog” wasn't exactly a household name).
Why Blogger? Well for a few reasons: 1.) It's Free! 2.) It's a breeze to setup and 3.) Google owns it. Yeah, the same Google that's helping us earn money through their AdSense program - A perfect marriage indeed.
Ok, so you have your blog topic (or maybe not but you will soon…right?) I'm going to get you hooked up to the service in no more than 10 minutes (times will vary for animals and small children). At the end of this you'll be ready to start writing up some content, free of charge.
1.) Go to Blogger and sign in with your Google account. If you don't use any Google services like Gmail you can create a new accounthere.
2.) Click on the “Create Your Blog Now” button arrow on the bottom right and fill in the information.
3.) Name your blog and give it an address. Make sure the name is meaningful and not too long.
4.) Choose from one of the many templates available.
5.) Your blog has been created!
Now wasn't that painless? In a matter of minutes you have reserved some real estate on the Internet.
GETTING STARTED WITH BLOGGING
So you’re interested in making money with AdSense? Well join the club. But before we get to the good stuff, we have to build the foundation. Chances are good that if you’re reading this you know what blogs are and how to create them. Good for you! You’re on the fast track to getting started with AdSense. But patience grasshoppa, we must help those who don’t even know what blogging is.
Here’s the definition of a blog from Wikipedia:
“A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.”
A blog is basically an online diary - A journal written by an author, about the author and/or the author’s interests. The great thing about a blog is there are no boundaries whatsoever. You can blog about your dog, cat, career, relationships, car, favorite ice cream, etc, etc. You have total control to be as creative as your heart desires!
The important thing about this journey is that you blog about something that matters to you. Different people have different interests and you’re no exception. Chances are good that others just like you are ready to delve into your material because they have similar tastes. Don’t hesitate to write about something you’re passionate about - just do it!
GETTING STARTED WITH BLOGGING
Here’s the definition of a blog from Wikipedia:
“A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.”
A blog is basically an online diary - A journal written by an author, about the author and/or the author’s interests. The great thing about a blog is there are no boundaries whatsoever. You can blog about your dog, cat, career, relationships, car, favorite ice cream, etc, etc. You have total control to be as creative as your heart desires!
The important thing about this journey is that you blog about something that matters to you. Different people have different interests and you’re no exception. Chances are good that others just like you are ready to delve into your material because they have similar tastes. Don’t hesitate to write about something you’re passionate about - just do it!
CREATING A BLOG SITE
Google's AdSense sounds interesting to you. You like the idea of legitimately making money online with advertisements. You even went so far as to read my last post: Getting Started with Blogging! But you have no idea how to get setup - until now.
I do Web Consulting for a living (no, I'm not a full-time blogger… yet). I'd say on a scale of 1-10 of web knowledge I'm probably near a 9, maybe a 9.1. But guess what? You don't have to know squat about web design or web programming. Of course you'll have to learn some web terminology along the way but you can start at ground zero today. The great thing about blogging and potentially earning money with AdSense is that you don't have to be a web guru.
I repeat: you do not have to be a web guru to start a blog and use AdSense.
There is a wide range of blogging tools out there. Some free, some not. If you haven't noticed, I'm using a tool called: Blogger. Before this I had experimented with Typepad and even created my own (this was a few years ago when the term “Blog” wasn't exactly a household name).
Why Blogger? Well for a few reasons: 1.) It's Free! 2.) It's a breeze to setup and 3.) Google owns it. Yeah, the same Google that's helping us earn money through their AdSense program - A perfect marriage indeed.
Ok, so you have your blog topic (or maybe not but you will soon…right?) I'm going to get you hooked up to the service in no more than 10 minutes (times will vary for animals and small children). At the end of this you'll be ready to start writing up some content, free of charge.
1.) Go to Blogger and sign in with your Google account. If you don't use any Google services like Gmail you can create a new accounthere.
2.) Click on the “Create Your Blog Now” button arrow on the bottom right and fill in the information.
3.) Name your blog and give it an address. Make sure the name is meaningful and not too long.
4.) Choose from one of the many templates available.
5.) Your blog has been created!
Now wasn't that painless? In a matter of minutes you have reserved some real estate on the Internet.
GOOGLE ADSENSE ACCOUNT SETUP
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
If you've been following along, you have a good idea what AdSense is.You're also familiar with blogging and have setup your very own atBlogger. It's time to get signed up with Google's Adsense andhopefully start making some money!
Like everything up to this point (minus your personal time) AdSense is 100% free. So head on over to the Google AdSense home page.
Now simply fill out the fields provided and voila!
Google states that they can take anywhere from 2 days to a week for approval, but my experience was quite quick - a couple of hours.Google's AdSense Help Center does a great job of answering all frequently asked questions. Now that we have an account we'll be able to put the ads on our blog page
Like everything up to this point (minus your personal time) AdSense is 100% free. So head on over to the Google AdSense home page.
Now simply fill out the fields provided and voila!
Google states that they can take anywhere from 2 days to a week for approval, but my experience was quite quick - a couple of hours.Google's AdSense Help Center does a great job of answering all frequently asked questions. Now that we have an account we'll be able to put the ads on our blog page
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What is Google AdSense?WHAT ARE GOOGLE ADSENSE CHANNELS?Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Google AdSense is a great free ad service that will help you make money online with your blog. But in order to blog for money you have to know all the different options that are available like: AdSense for Search and AdSense images to name just a couple. It’s also important to know where you should place your AdSense ads to maximize your money making potential. But how do you know which ads are making you money and which aren’t? That’s where Google AdSense Channels comes in. Google AdSense ChannelsAn AdSense Channel is simply a way to track the performance of your ads. For example, let’s say you’re using two different AdSense ads on your blog – AdSense Ad Unit and an AdSense skyscraper image. One day you log into your AdSense account and find out that you’ve made $5.00 from 10 clicks. Well guess what? You have no idea which ads your readers clicked and therefore have no way of optimizing your blog to become the money making machine you’re dreaming of! With AdSense channels, you can create (for example) a 180 x 600 text only ad and assign it to a channel you call “Right Vertical Ad”. When you log into your account and see that you’ve made $5.00 you can easily figure out which ads were the moneymakers because you split them out by channels. So now you’ll have a channel called “Right Vertical Ad” that will tell you how many people clicked, what your click-through rate was, and how much you earned. AdSense Channels for Multiple SitesIn addition to tracking individual ads on your blog, Google AdSense Channels will allow you to track multiple sites as well! So if you have a blog about fancy cars and another about video games, you can create channels that will track both sites. Now you’ll not only know which ads are more profitable… but also which site! Hopefully you enjoyed this introduction to Google AdSense Channels. It’s a topic that’s extremely important to your success online. It will allow you to track and tweak your blog so you can make money online the right way -- by being smart. In my next article, I’ll discuss how you can easily create channels so you can start tracking your ad performance right away. GOOGLE ADSENSE FOR SEARCH ON BLOGGERWednesday, October 24, 2007 Earning money with Blogger is more fun than watching a Britney Spears meltdown (no really it is!). And today is no different as we learn how easy it is to add AdSense for Search on our Blogger blogs. We learned in AdSense Options for Blogger: Part 1 and AdSense Options for Blogger: Part 2 that the Blogger service gives us some nice Google AdSense abilities right out of the box. In just minutes we can easily get up and running with ad and link units. But there's more to AdSense - a lot more. Let's go to our Google AdSense accounts and login. Once you're there, click on the AdSense Setup tab.  We're presented with several Google AdSense options. You'll notice that the first choice (minus the images option - we'll talk about that in another article) is what we have on our Blogger blogs now: AdSense for Content. But today we're focused on AdSense for Search, so go ahead and click on that now.  AdSense for Search is a great option for our blogs. It gives our readers the ability to search the Internet from our site, as well as our content. Ok, we're at the AdSense for Search screen now. Feel free to play around with the configuration options to best match your site. This is a judgment call on your part and should be tweaked, as you feel necessary. When you're done, click next and keep the defaults for now on the following page (you can always come back and play around) and hit next again. You should see the search box code that has your html ready for you to copy and paste!  The fine folks at Google do all the hard work for us - no messy HTML for us to write! Once you've copied the entire contents of the text box, log into your Blogger account and navigate to the Layout of your site. From here, choose the Add a Page Element and select the HTML/Javscript option.  Go ahead and paste the HTML that you copied from the Google AdSense page into your HTML/JavaScript form and save your changes.  That's all there is to it! In just a few minutes you were able to easily add Google's AdSense for Search onto your Blogger blog. That wasn't so painful now was it? HOW DO I PUT WIDGETBUCKS ON MY BLOG?Wednesday, October 31, 2007 In What is WidgetBucks? We learned that there are more ways than just Google AdSense to make money from blogging. If you know about WidgetBucks and want to sign up go ahead and do that now: WidgetBucks allows us to easily integrate product ads on our Blogger blog but how? Luckily for us, WidgetBucks and Blogger make it a very straightforward process. Let's start by logging into our WidgetBucks accounts and click on the New Widget button in the menu.  This will bring us to the Customize Your Widget page.  From here you simply create a name for your widget, point it to the page you're going to place it, customize the design, and finally select what type of product you want served. Once you're set just press the Get code button and copy the HTML/JavaScript. Don't worry - like everything else we do around here - you don't need to know anything about HTML or JavaScript to start making money. But you do have to know how to copy and paste! Now that you have your widget code, log into your Blogger account. At the dashboard go to Layout and then Add a Page Element. If for some reason you've been hiding under a rock this whole time and don't have a Blogger account - check out Create a blog. You should have the Blogger form with all your layout options now. Here you're going to click on the HTML/JavaScript option.  Go ahead and paste your widget code in the main form - you can optionally give it a title if you want - I don't. Once you save your changes you're done! Congratulations! You're ready to start making money with WidgetBucks. | Google AdSense is a free service that will helpmake money with your blog. |
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