How to Earn an Income With Google Adsense

Adsense is considered as one of the most powerful tools in a website publisher's arsenal today. It is a program that enables any person who owns a website to monetize their sites quite easily. If used properly, it can generate quite a generous income for them on a monthly basis.

The key to building a site that will make money with Adsense is that you should start by writing some quality content articles, incorporating keywords which pertain to the subject of your website. If writing comes easy to you, why not make it work in such a way that you will be earning some extra cash in the process?

If you don't know or do not have the time to write articles yourself, don't despair - you can still do it even if you don't know how to write a single sentence. You can easily find writers that will write good articles for you by doing a search for freelance writers or ghost writers.

There are actually three steps you will have to follow to earn good money with Adsense. These are:

1. Do Keyword research.

Find some popular subjects, keywords or phrases that fit your chosen niche subject . Select the ones which you think will have more people searching for it. You can use the Google Suggest tool here: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en This tool will tell you exactly how many people searched for a spesific keyword or phrase during the last month.

2. Write original content articles.

Start writing original article content around the keywords that you have selected - or do what I suggested above by getting someone else to write your articles for you.

3. Build a Quality content site.

By using your orignal articles you will be building a quality content site that the search engines will love. Now, you should be incorporating Adsense ads that targets the subject and keywords of the articles on your websites. It is at this point that you will start earning your first money from Adsense. Continue to build your sites with quality content and you will earn a good income from it eventually.

If you do not have an Adsense account you, you should go here to apply for one: https://www.google.com/adsense/?hl=en_US&sourceid=aso&subid=us-et-ads Make sure that you have your site up and running first though! To be approved for Adsense your site will have to have good content, and at least 5 or more pages first.

Once you have an Adsense account, you should look at optimizing your ads. The proper positioning of your ads should be done with care. To optimize the effectiveness of your ads, you should definitely study the tips that Google gives to webmasters here: https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html&sourceid=aso&subid=ww-ww-et-asui&medium=link

You should blend the ads so that they fit in with your site and you should try and position them where surfers are most likely to click on them. According to research, the one place that surfers look first when they visit a certain site is the top left. The reason behind this is not known. Maybe it is because some of the most useful search engine results are at the top of all other rankings. So visitors tend to look in that same place when browsing through other sites.

Some of those who are just starting at this business may think they are doing pretty well already and thinking that their clickthrough rates and CPM figures are quite healthy. However, there are techniques and styles that will generate more clicks to double your earnings. By knowing these techniques and utilizing them to your advantage, you could be earning three times more than other people who do not apply these tips, so do study the tips that Google themselves give you..

Finally, the Adsense program has excellent tracking statistics that allows webmasters and publishers to track their results across a number of sites on a site by site or page by page basis. You should make use of these statistics and make the most of it because it is one powerful tool that will help you find out which ads are performing best. This way, you can fine tune your Adsense ads and focus more on the ones being visited the most rather than those who are being ignored.

One thing you should keep in mind is that banners and skyscrapers ads are not effective any more as surfers universally ignore them. The reason behind this is that they are recognized as adverts and most people have become what they call "banner blind".

To really start making money with Adsense, you should have a definite focus on what you want to achieve and how you will go about achieving it. As with any other kind of business ventures, you will need patience coupled with a bit of work on your part.

Once your site has been built, add some new content occasionally just to keep it "alive" in the eyes of the search engines. Then go on and create another quality content site to increase your Adsense income even more.

You will love building your sites, as well as the sense of achievement that comes with it when you recieve your first Adsense check!