Monetizing Your Site with Googe Adsense

One way of earning money online is thru blogging. Set up your blog, write articles and after you have enough content you can now start monetizing your blog by joining ad networks.

Google Adsense
One of the most popular pay per click ad network is google adsense. Google is a contextual ad program. It displays ads based on the site's content. Earnings are generated on a pay per click or per impression basis. When a surfer clicks on an ad placed on your site, you will earn based on the price that the given advertiser has bid on that particluar ad. Google adsense offers text and image ads. It also has a adsence for search and feeds.

First you will have to join as a publisher with google adsense. After joining, you get the code and then paste the ad codes on your site. But before, joining you may want to know more about google adsense.

Types of Ads

Adsense for Content
It displays ads based on your site's content. There are also two types of adsense for content, the
ad unit which consist of text ads and text and image ads. The other type of adsense for content is the link unit. It consist of ads that will take the user to the page related to the clicked topic.





Adsense for Search
A search bar placed on your site. You earn revenues from your users search term.




Adsense for Feeds
These are ads placed on your blog feeds.





Ad Sizes
Google adsense for content has different sizes of ads which you can place on your site.

Horizontal
728x90 Leaderboard
468x60 Banner
234x60 Half Banner

Vertical
120x600 Skyscraper
160x600 Skyscaper
120x240 Vertical Banner

Square
336x280 Large Rectangle
300x250 Medium Rectangle
25x250 Square
200x200 Small Square
180x150 Small Rectangle
125x125 Button

Placement of Ads
Placement of Google adsense units is very critical to your success as a earning blogger. There are many sites discussing the importance of ad placement. I will be discussing this topic on my next succeding posts.

I hope you get something from this post.