– By: Noel Swanson, 2008-02-05<\/p>\n
An easy way to make money online is to use the Google AdSense program. You can make money by including simple text ads in your site’s content. When visitors click those ads, you share some of the money Google makes from the advertisers. It’s incredibly easy.<\/p>\n
A bit of cut-and-paste is all you need to place AdSense ads on your site. Google scans the page to automatically select relevant ads, so there’s very little work involved on your part. It’s so simple to start using AdSense.<\/p>\n
AdSense is a great content monetization program, but it depends on two things: content and traffic. You need both to make money with AdSense. Content is what attracts the visitors, and visitors are the ones who click the ads. No visitors, no money — it’s pretty easy to understand that!<\/p>\n
You need more than one site, though. The most successful AdSense publishers build networks of content sites. These “AdSense networks” multiply their earning power. After all, even 100 sites earning only $2\/day each makes $6000 a month in earnings, which to some people is a full-time salary.<\/p>\n
Is it easy to build so many sites? No, it’s kind of daunting. You need a lot of content. You need to find cut-rate web hosting and cheap domain names. You’ll want tools to create the sites.<\/p>\n
Creating your AdSense network doesn’t take as much work as think it does if you follow a few simple tricks. The first is to minimize content: start out with small sites and see what works and what doesn’t. Then do everything you can to get visitors to come back, usually by getting them to sign up for a mailing list. Don’t forget to use affiliate links embedded in your content for extra income. And make sure all the pages link to each other and follow basic search engine optimization rules.<\/p>\n
Your AdSense content network needs a proper business plan in order to thrive. Start small by attacking a variety of niches using the tricks mentioned above. Build on what you have, and in a few months you’ll have a great AdSense business.<\/p>\n
Teach yourself to make money with AdSense by using PLRSiteBuilder, a tool to create content-rich AdSense sites. <\/p>\n