Make Extra Money Blogging With Google Adsense
By Dita Irvine | Make Money Blogging  
Many
 people, when they start a blog, start it with an idea to eventually 
make extra money blogging. A simple way to boost blogging for money 
formula, is to add Google Adsense to your blog. Surely, this is not 
going to make you a millionaire, but you can definitely make extra money
 with Google Adsense and that feat alone may be an excellent incentive 
to keep plugging along.
What Is Google Adsense
Wikipedia defines Google Adsense as:
Google AdSense is a program run by Google Inc. that 
allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to serve 
automatic text, image, video, or interactive media adverts that are 
targeted to site content and audience 
According to Google:
Google AdSense is a free, simple way for website 
publishers of all sizes to earn money by displaying targeted Google ads 
on their websites. AdSense also lets you provide Google search to your 
site users, while earning money by displaying Google ads on the search 
results pages support.google.com
The video below, from the same Google source, very simply explains the Adsense program.
How To Get Google Adsense Started On Your Money Blog
Getting
 a Google Adsene account is free. To sign up for it, simply visit the 
following link and fill out the application: 
https://www.google.com/adsense/signup.
Before you apply to get your Adsense account make sure that you have a
 site with unique, well written, value content on it and that you are 
receiving some targeted traffic already. In some countries, the site may
 have to be in existence for at least 6 months. This policy was 
implemented by Google to protect its advertisers.
Google is quite strict when it comes to approving new Adsense 
accounts. There are couple of crucial steps you will need to follow to 
ensure that your application is processed favorably.
1. Create a well designed and value information site.
 Google wants your site to be a valuable resource for the readers. The 
general consensus among internet marketers is that you should have at 
least 10 original and well written articles on your money blog before you apply.
2. Have Privacy Policy, About page and a Contact page set up
 and displayed (usually on your navigation bar). For the Privacy policy 
you will need to follow certain guidelines. You may check my privacy 
policy. You can generate this policy using the free Privacy Policy 
generator here. I used it to create my Privacy Policy.
Once you will get approved you will receive your approval and your 
account information via email. At first, your account will only be 
temporary. This is to ensure that you will follow the guidelines and not
 do something ridiculous as clicking on the ads on your site, flood your
 site with Adsense ads, buying clicks on Fiverr or anything else that 
looks suspicious to Google.
As soon as your site is approved, you can place adsense ads on other 
sites that you own as well. You do not have to apply for each site 
separately. After a few weeks, if you do not commit any “suspicious 
activities” in the eyes of Google, you will get verified and you will be
 permanently (unless you screw up) approved. You will be able to make 
extra money blogging with Google Adsense, from all your sites for as 
long as you keep in line with Google terms.
How Does One Make Extra Money Blogging With Adsense
After you get approved, you will have to create the ad units you want
 to place on your money blog. You will need to sign in to your Adsense 
account using the link you received in your email. Enter the “My Ads” 
tab in your dashboard, click on “New Content” and then click on “New ad 
unit”. For more information and a clear view of all steps visit the following help page.
From Google’s instructions on how to create ad units
 
Upon completing the set up of the ad units you will receive a code 
from Google. You can place this code anywhere on your site. You can 
place the codes directly into the posts or pages, in the sidebar, under 
the header, in the header and so on.
You can place the ad units manually on your site or you can choose 
from a variety of adsense plugins that will place the units on your site
 automatically in the manner you specify. The one adsense plugin I used 
in the past was the Easy Adsense WordPress plugin.
 I used the free, lite version and it worked very well for me. If you 
want to have a plugin to control the placement of ads, I recommend it 
(The Lite free version is all I used and it is sufficient).
How Blogging Spree Blog Is Monetized With Adsense
A few days ago I monetized Blogging Spree blog with Google Adsense. I
 placed the ads manually in 3 spots . As at this point I want the ads to
 appear across the board on most of my pages and posts. I have added a 
set of links under the header and also I have added a banner ad in the 
sidebar.
To add Google Adsense to your sidebar use a text widget in your 
widget’s dashboard and add the code directly into the text widget (you can read more about adding text widgets here…)
What I love about Google Adsense is that the types of displayed ads 
adjust to the topic of the post or a page on the blog unlike the static 
ads we place in, for example sidebars, of our sites . Below I am going 
to show the example of how it works and how the ads displayed correlate 
to the topic of the posts. I’ll show you 2 examples of posts with 
completely different topics:
1. Ad displayed on the post “Easy Way To Change Admin Username…”
An example of ad units on Blogging Spree
 
Notice
 that the Adsense ads were place under the header advertisement as a 
link unit and in the side bar as an image unit. Both the, the link unit 
(hard to see in the image) and the image in the sidebar were adjusted to
 the message of the post.
The correlation or the relatedness of the image to the post was quite
 significant. You can see the example of the image on the right, I 
copied the image from the ad. Clearly, the blog post talks about blog 
security and I guess Network Security was as close as Google could come 
up with related content. And, that is pretty darn good.
2. The other example is from a completely different topic post, namely “How To Start Bogging…”
Another Example Of Adsense Ad Units On Blogging Spree
 
Notice the ad in the sidebar. It is quite a bit different than the 
one related to security discussed above. You can very clearly see that 
this particular ad offers the reader a possibility to create free 
websites. To tell you the truth, I spotted these images on other 
websites and I believe I even clicked on some of them before. Obviously,
 the ads work.
Just before I will conclude the post I wanted to mention that when 
you are setting these ads on your site for the first time you may want 
to go crazy placing them all over the site, labeling them with enticing 
phrases, etc. 
Don’t do this!
Always remember, that Google distributes the ads on behalf of many 
marketers just like you and I. Make sure to treat the ads the same way 
you would want someone else treat your ads on their website.
This concludes, todays post. Hopefully you gained some insight on how
 to make extra money blogging with Google Adsense. Once you are 
approved, Adsense is really simple to implement on your site. Providing 
that you will continue to churn valuable content and will not misuse 
this wonderful blog monetizing tool, you will be able to make a modest 
passive income from your site for years to come. I look forward to your 
feedback.