Getting Started with Google Adsense
Before you start, you need to have your blog created. I do recommend Blogger.com or Wordpress.com if you’re thinking of using free blog services. If you’re planning to host it on a paid shared hosting, then go for Wordpress, it’s SEO (search engine optimization) friendly.
Once you have a blog, start deciding on the scope of your blog. Find topic that you enjoy sharing. You can blog in any languages that you want, but English is preferred as you can reach a wider reader base. Make sure your blog is about 1 month old before registering for Adsense. This can reduce the chance of your blog being rejected as suspected blog farms.
To sign up, go to Google Adsense (http://adsense.google.com). You need to have a Google Account to register and make sure your full name and address is correct as it’s needed when you want to cash out your earnings via Western Union or cheque. Once done, you’ll have to wait for the approval from the Adsense team. This normally takes less than 48 hours. Once approved, you’re ready to go. Login to Adsense and start learning how to setup your ads using the tutorials given by Google.
Deciding Where to Put Adsense Ads on your Blog
This is the key to your earnings. Make sure you put the Adsense slots at the right place. You can Google for some Adsense-enhanced blog templates that can make it easier for you. Else, make sure you know some HTML basic to edit your templates. The best place to put your ads is on the front/index page. I would recommend image ads on sidebar or top header. Link ads are best to put between your blog contents. Try to use ads or larger size like skyscraper or large rectangular. This can attract your visitors to click. Make sure you choose the right colour combination as well. Match it with your blog template colour scheme.
Driving Traffics to your Blog
Of course, if order to earn more, you need to have more click through rates. There are several ways to do this. The first is by using your blog posts itself. Meaning you blog on topics that would interest people to search and hopefully locate your blog on various search engines. I would recommend you install Google Analytics code in order to track your visitors. Look at what keywords that brings them to your site and start blog more on that topic. You can refer to my guide here.
Another way is by blog hopping and putting trackbacks/back links. When you visit others blog and you find something interesting, blog on that topic and put a back links to the blog you just visited. This will make your blog links appeared on others blog easily. Of course, do not copy and paste others work, the author might just delete your links. Besides that, you can also sign up for various blog community sites like MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog in order to make your blog more popular. I would also suggest you sign up for Entrecard, a very effective way of driving traffics.
Bookmarking to Death!
Get your blog posts bookmarked on social bookmarking network like del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Shoutwire, StumbleUpon. Other users with similar interests can view the links by topic, category, tags, or even randomly. So that means you’re widening the exposure of your blogs to others. You’ll be amazed with the referrals link from these sites to your blog in your analytics report once you get used to it.
You need to get as many links as possible from these social networking sites. Furthermore, they are usually not moderated. You can use software/services like http://www.submitbookmark.com/ to get the job done. These automated systems allow you to mass submit and has protection features such as proxy support and multiple account capabilities. Although your site will not be featured in the front page of these bookmarking sites, they will generate good links for you. Remember, you are not trying to win a popularity contest. You are after tons and tons of links.
Try not to misuse Google Adsense, you’ll get banned easily. To key is to grow steadily and earn reasonable amount and it will increase as your traffic load begins to grow. So what are you waiting for? Start Earning with Google Adsense now!
