Making Money with a Blog

Blogging is one of the only truly “free” start-up business models on the
internet. You can quickly and easily sign-up for an account with a free
blog service such as Goggle’s Blogger. From there you can add
AdSense and other affiliate links to your blog and make money from
your visitors clicking on those links. This is referred to as monetizing a
blog – making money with a blog. You can accomplish all of this
without ever spending a single cent of your own money.


Google started a program called AdSense. AdSense is for website
owners to make money by hosting other business’s advertisements on
their websites. These AdSense ads can also be hosted on a blog, even
if it is hosted by a free blog service. Google owns both Blogger and
AdSense so they are both programmed to be very simple for anyone to
use. Because Google owns both Blogger and AdSense they go
extremely well together.


With AdSense you paste the code the program generates for you into
your Blogger template. Where the advertisements will show up on
your blog depends entirely on where you choose to paste the AdSense
code into your template. Later in this eBook we will talk about how to
generate AdSense code and exactly where in your blog template to
paste that code is.


AdSense additionally allows you to blend in the ads with the content of
your blog. This helps to make your AdSense ads look more like your
written content and less like advertising billboards.


AdSense is also intuitive enough that it will serve you ads which match
the topic and content on your blogs. For example, if you have a blog
on saving money then AdSense will likely serve up ads for coupon
clipping services, freebies online and other things which match your
blog’s topic. On your saving money blog you will not see ads for
irrelevant things like animal care or technology products.


How do you make money with Google’s Adsense? Google pays you
when the visitors to your blog click on the AdSense advertisements on
your site. This is called “click through.” Google pays you a varied
amount depending on the ad which was clicked on.