How do you make money from the Google AdSense Program?

How do you make
money from the Google Adsense Program?

How
do you make money from the Google Adsense Program?

What
AdSense
Tips can you share with us?

I
have been
asked this question so many times in the past few weeks that I thought
I should
write something on the topic. It seems increasingly bloggers want to
try to
cover their hosting and ISP costs with some revenue from their blog -
and
increasingly they’re doing it and are able to make a few (or
quite a lot)
dollars on the side. Many are turning to Google’s Adsense
program.

Covering
costs of my Digital Photography Blog is why I originally signed up with
Google
Adsense - blogging can get expensive when you have high levels of
traffic and a
lot of pages.

Whilst
the
agreement you sign with Google stresses that you are not allowed to
give
specific information about your earnings from the program I can say
that I’m
glad I’ve signed up because its well and truly covered my
costs - and then
some. In fact I think its quite feasible to expect that Adsense coupled
with
other strategies for making money from Blogging could quite easily
generate a
decent living. It takes time and hard work, but I think its very
doable.
(Update: Since writing this series I’ve revealed that I am
now looking at
making over a six figure income this year in 2005 from blogging).

So
how do I
make money from Google Adsense? Let me share some AdSense Tips that
heve helped
me.

This
will be
the first in a series of posts on this topic. Let me say up front
I’m no expert
- there are a lot of people out there making a lot more money than I am
using
Adsense - however most of them are not telling their secrets - well not
for
free anyway. I’ve got no secrets to hide and am willing to
share what I’ve
learnt since I signed up for the program 8 months ago. If you want a
REAL
expert’s opinion on Adsense I’d recommend buying
Joel Comm’s What Google Never
Told You About Making Money with Adsense E-Book. Joel earns $15,000 per
month
from Adsense and has some good things to share.

I
know some
bloggers are put off or offended by the idea of making money from
blogging so
I’ll try not to let these posts dominate my blog - however if
you are not
interested in the topic, simply skip over these posts.