So you've decided to earn a little money with your blog or website, and now you want to place adsense to start generating revenue. Setting up and placing adsense on your site is fairly easy, but here is a quick walk through for those that are interested.
Sign-up
The first thing you want to do is sign up for an adsense account. You will need to provide accurate information, as this will be how Google mails your Adsense check to the right location, as well as details needed for them to be able to pay you in the first place. There are no gimmicks here, it's a secure site, and you shouldn't have to worry about sending this information online. Sign up for adsense here.
Getting Started
Okay, now that you are all signed up for adsense, it's time to choose your format. First, choose adsense for content, which will give you the option of placing link units or ad units.
- Ad Units - Ad units generate income by placing text and image ads on your site that are relevant to the content of your blog. When a reader of your blog clicks on one of these Google ads, you make money!
- Link Units - Link Units are a set of topics that are relevant to the content of your blog. When a person clicks on one of these links, it takes them to a google search page, with other advertisements on it. When a person clicks on one of these advertisements through your link unit, you make money!
For this example we'll go with text only.
2. Now, find a place on your blog that you want the text to go into. For instance, if you wanted to place adsense on your sidebar, you will probably want a vertical tower. Two good options are the 120x600 tower and the 160x600 tower.
3. Taking the 160x600 tower, I now have to choose the color format. Google defaults its adsense ads to the blue text. You can change this to match your site. This is recommended, as ads are much more likely to be clicked if they blend in with the content of your blog or website.
4. After choosing the colors, I have the option to change the font and corner styles. For this, I am leaving them as the adsense default.
5. The last part of this set up section involves what to do if there are no relevant ads to a particular page on your blog. This occasionally happens, so Google needs to know what to place in your ad slot. YOU can choose to display public service ads, which generate no income when clicked on, or you can have another ad program's advertisment placed there. You can also have it set to simply display a solid color.
That's it! Your adsense ad is designed. But you are not quite through yet. You still have to set up a channel for your ad.
Channels
Channels are extremely valuable tools for Adsense. By customizing a channel for a particular ad, you have the ability to see how well it performs. An adsense report will tell you how many times it has been viewed, how many times it has been clicked, how much money it has made. It also tells you the CTR and CPM. These numbers are very important to how much money you make, and we'll go over these in another post.
To create a channel for your new adsense ad, select new channel. Name it whatever will help you recognize it in your reports. For my text ad, I would label it Blogsite 160x600 text sidebar.
Proceed to the next page, where you are now labeling the ad itself. I like to individualize my channels and my ad, so I named the ad the same thing I named my channel.
Click Submit and Get Code! Your ad is created. Now we have to place it.
Place into your blog with HTML Code
The resulting adsense html code needs to be copied in its entirety and placed on your blog. Find the edit html area of you blog, and copy and paste the code where you want your adsense displayed. That's it! Within 10 minutes, your adsense ads should start displaying!
For Blogger users, you can also insert adsense code by placing them into an html widget. Just select the new gadget option in your layout, and choose html. Paste the copied adense code and save. All done!
That's it! Adsense should now be running on your blog! Now you can add mroe adsense units to help make even more money with your blog!
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