Not only has Google become insanely wealthy off the whole adsense program,which allows businesses to advertise their website by buying adwords on the actual search results in addition to other people’s websites,but it has made many webmasters and blog owners rich as well.
The whole process is designed to be as easy and self-explanatory as possible.
- A person has a website
- He opens up an Adsense account
- The account is looked at and approved or disapproved
- Once account is activated the person goes in a picks which size ad block and color he wants
- Special java script code is given to the account holder
- Code is copied and pasted onto website and in 10 minutes or less relevant ads are being displayed in location chosen
It is an extremely easy process. A fifth grader could do it without much difficulty whatsoever.
Unlike other forms of affiliate advertising,where the webmaster has to insert text links and banners in the perfect spot and in just the right location of a website to make any money,adsense takes care of itself once installed.
Many people speak negatively about the whole adsense program because they say it’s payout is extremely small in comparison to the forms of advertising. You search the web and hear tons of stories and posts of people complaining that they made only a couple dollars with it during the course of a whole year.
That is most likely true.
For a person to make any money from Google adsense you have to have organic traffic and lots of it. Anything website getting less than one hundred visitors per day from the search engines (not social media outlets or direct traffic) will not produce a lot of adsense revenue no matter how well written or informative it is. You will make a couple bucks here and there but it will not be any consistent income that you can live off.
Nevertheless,there is no other form of advertising I know that will do all the work for you once you sign up. There is no other advertising program that will find you extremely relevant ads,put them on your website for you,and then pay you every time someone clicks on them regardless of whether they convert into an actual sale. Other affiliates may pay more it is only if the person who clicks actually purchases something. Google has the only program that does what they do and it is the reason why the most successful internet marketers use it.
There are indeed 2-3 other medium sized pay-per-click programs,like Bidvertiser,but the lack of consistency and trustworthiness of them have been well documented. Many people who have used them have reported earnings unfairly taken away on more than one occasion as well as non-relevant ads being shown on their websites.
When you are a webmaster you want to be certain the the company you are advertising with,be it the actual one selling a product/service or a third party service representing other companies,will pay you exactly what you have earned and at the time originally stated. No other PPC program has a solid reputation of doing that.
With the adsense program your earnings are calculated every month on the 15th and the check is sent out on the 21st of the month. If you elect to have direct deposit than you will get your adsense income no latter than the 23rd. If you elect to have a check sent to you then you will have to wait until later in the month. The point is that everything is fair and consistent. Google has spent hundreds of millions of dollars perfecting their adsense program and the accountability they hold themselves to when it comes to tracking results and earnings are very high. Nobody can dispute that.
Yes,despite many criticisms there are many people making great money with adsense on a consistent monthly basis and are living quite comfortably because of it. The people who are able to do this have websites in every niche imaginable from home improvement to cosmetic dental surgery advice.
Its by far the easier advertising program to implement on any website and despite many criticisms it is still the best in the world.
Excellent Article! Agreed fully. Personally I have tried many other times of affiliate advertising and they do not work even close to adsense. This program does all the work for you. I have a blog that is three years old and I am making about $3 a day with it. I talk about kitchenware and things like that.
Thanks
Marie J
Nice,I was searching for something along the lines of this. What would you say would be the most effective way of marketing online (apart from) emailing,because that’s a given.
Dang making money without a job has always on the occasion been very hard;almost always I purchase some ebooks and work from those. But they are really expensive! Trying to make money without any sort of job experience is even harder. Some programs usually are so unprofitable,but this post actually helped me out. Thanks A lot!