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You would be amazed at the money being made with Google Adsense every day by people like you and me. Google adsense is one of the easiest way I have found to add extra in come to your website or blog.

It hardly takes any computer skill to implement Google Adsense ads into your website or blog. All you have to do is sigh up with Google for the Google Adsense program and get approved, which will take 2-3 days in most cases. Once approved google will automatically make you Adsense code. All you have to do is insert Adsense ad into your website or blog. That’s it.

With that said, now that you have your Google Adsense ads posted to your website you will need to drive traffic to it. For starters, everybody knows that content is king on the internet and search engines love it.

Fill your site with good quality keyword saturated content is the first step in getting you website noticed by Google and other search engines, keep you content up to date, try added new stuff weekly. RSS feeds also work nicely because it automatically ads fresh content to your site with no work on your end. Everybody likes that! I could go on and on about SEO but your web site content is probably the most important thing of all. People searching the web love information.

I would recommend finding out as much as possible about SEO, ranking high in the search engines will be worth the work, times a million.

Placement of your Google adsense ads will also play a huge factor in the amount of clicks you get on you adsense ads. I have found that a large horizontal banner right under the header works best. You will also wont to customize you ads to go with the theme of your website, so they look a little more like content and less like ads. People will be more apt to click on them the ads that way.

Google does set some limiting on what you can do to the ads. You are going to wont to read terms of use with Google adsense. Reading terms of use is a very important step. You do not wont to get shut down for something you were not aware of.

There is also many other ways to get traffic to your adsense ads, here is a list of a few that have worked the best for me.

1. Submitting articles just like this one to article sites. This is a great way to get your site out there. Just write a good article on any subject that you no a little about. Ad a link to your site at the bottom and that’s it. If people have found what you have written interesting they will in most cases take a look and your site. Best of all it is free advertizement for you. There is also software out there that will automatically submit your articles for you and save you a ton of time.

2. Get your site linked to as many high-ranking sites as possible. This can be down by contacting high-ranking sites with similar content to yours and requesting them to add your link in there site. This will help you get index in search engines faster and increase your page rank. Search engines like a lot of links from other high ranking sites. This makes you look more important to them.

There are hundreds of ways to promote your site. I recommend just sticking to a few simple methods to start with. It is very easy to get over whelmed if you try doing too much.

Today, we celebrate the second birthday of Inside AdSense. Surprised it’s been two years already? So are we -– but not as surprised as we were last year, when we got so busy with Optimization Month that we neglected to commemorate it at all. (But can you blame us for putting the focus on getting the most from our sites?)

So how should we mark this momentous occasion? A Scooby Doo pinata and squirt guns proved to be a big hit at my little brother’s birthday party last week, but Inside AdSense isn’t a rambunctious four year old. We hope that Inside AdSense is a grown-up resource for publishers. And if there’s anything that we would like for our birthday, it’s what any thriving blog needs: readers.

Whether you read the blog every so often or if this is the first time you’ve stumbled upon it, it’s a great opportunity to subscribe and begin receiving posts in your inbox. Cheesy as it may sound, subscribing to the blog isn’t just a gift to us on the Inside AdSense team — it’s a gift to yourself.

If you believe that you are what you read, consider becoming a more informed, savvier publisher — and help us celebrate our new year — by subscribing today.

Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support

Tomorrow, our engineers will be performing routine system maintenance from 10am to 12pm PDT. Although you won’t be able to log in to your account for 2 hours, we’ll continue to serve ads to your pages and track your earnings as usual.

For our international readers, we’ve converted the maintenance start time for a few cities around the world:

Toronto — 1pm Saturday
London — 6pm Saturday
Cairo — 8pm Saturday
Mumbai — 10:30pm Saturday
Melbourne — 3am Sunday

Thanks for your patience, and enjoy your weekend!

Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

Two weeks ago, our blog team celebrated the first birthday of the Dutch AdSense blog. We’re now happy to announce the launch of the Dutch AdSense Help Forum! Visit the new forum to ask troubleshooting questions, offer optimization advice, and meet other AdSense publishers. You might also notice posts from ‘AdSensePro’, a Google representative who will contribute to discussions.

Aside from Dutch, the AdSense Help Forum is also available in the following languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

We really enjoy meeting publishers face to face, as it lets us know how you feel about the AdSense program and what improvements we can make. Plus, we’re happy to help you put faces to the names in the email messages we send. Recently, a few members of our AdSense UK team met up with a group of publishers in London to discuss AdSense and to share a bit about future developments. We’ve compiled some video footage from that day. Enjoy!

Posted by Robert Freeborn - AdSense UK Publisher Support

Two more languages — Bulgarian and Serbian — have just joined the AdSense for content family, and AdSense for search has also launched in Serbian. We know that web publishers in these regions have been waiting for for a long time — thank you for your continued patience.

To get started with AdSense for content or AdSense for search, log in to your account and follow the wizard located under the AdSense Setup tab. If you don’t have an account yet, you can sign-up for AdSense in just a few minutes.

If you have questions about using AdSense for content or AdSense for search, visit our Help Center or email us via our Contact Us form.

Keep working on your content and let it work for you!

Posted by Gergana Marinova (Bulgarian) and Ilinka Zaharčeva (Serbian) - AdSense Publisher Support

When Amit Kumar co-founded MegaGames Forum in 1998, Google Inc. was being run from a Menlo Park garage and AdSense didn’t even exist yet. Fast-forward 9 years to 2007: Amit still runs MegaGames Forum just as a hobby, but he earns enough revenue through the AdSense program to run a dedicated server and continue growing his site.

Amit wasn’t so successful with AdSense right from the start. When he first started using the program in 2005, his earnings were nothing to write home about, and it was largely because he chose his ad placement, formats, and colors at random. After recently optimizing his ads, however, Amit was able to more than double his AdSense revenue and even improve the user experience on his site. Results may vary since every site is unique, but here are some tips that any forum site, large or small, can also try out to increase revenue.

1. The welcome box ad
   Many forums have a message above the fold on their pages welcoming users to the site and encouraging them to register. Placing a large (336×280) or medium (300×250) rectangle next to this message catches users’ attention right when they walk through the door (so to speak). By the way, these are our best performing ad units, and may also increase the number of site-targeted ads on your pages.

2. The forum post ad

   Based on previous testing, integrating ad units into your page content can improve clickthrough rate (CTR). It also provides a better online experience, since your users see relevant ads side by side with normal content. In forums, the highest visibility content is often the first post, so it makes sense to place the ads here. Again, large and medium rectangles are your best bet!

3. Blending colors and breaking down borders

   Colors are important for making an ad visible to the user, but they should still blend with the design of the site. Removing the borders on your ads helps even more with this concept of blending. Don’t worry — even with a well-blended implementation, the ‘Ads by Google’ label keeps your users from confusing ads with content.

Bonus tip: Improve ad relevance with section targeting

With forums, the first post often contains the most relevant content on the page. By using the section targeting feature to emphasize this content, you can potentially increase CTR with better targeted ads. Visit this ’section targeting’ link we mention for instructions.

If you decide to try out these tips, we’d love to hear about your success.

Posted by Magnus Yang - AdSense Optimization Team

We’ve recently noticed that many publishers are having trouble logging into their accounts after the latest Mozilla Firefox update. A number of publishers have reported that they’re only seeing a sign-up page rather than a login form.

After a little digging and some testing, we’ve found that Adblock Plus, an add-on that sometimes gets installed with Firefox, can prevent you from accessing your account on the AdSense homepage. Our recommendation is to clear your cache and cookies and turn off the Adblock software before trying to log in at www.google.com/adsense. You may also wish to review our troubleshooting tips for login issues in our Help Center.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

Posted by Rajiv Sud - AdSense Publisher Support

It’s almost the end of the month, which means that it’s almost time for us to send our publishers their payments. We know you’re eagerly waiting for your check or EFT deposit to pay your bills, so we’d like to answer some questions you may have and clarify what to expect over the next few weeks.

Will I be sent a payment this month?

You can check to see whether you’re eligible for a payment at the end of July. Just visit your Payment History page, set the date range to ‘All time’, and find the amount in the ‘Monthly balance’ column corresponding to June. If this number is greater than $100 and you removed all holds from your account before July 15th, you’re eligible for a payment at the end of this month.

Can you give me an actual ‘end of the month’ date?

Unfortunately, we can’t. You may sometimes see that your payment is issued on the 23rd of the month, and at other times on the 29th. This is because all earnings are audited for accuracy every month, and this automatic audit process can take different amounts of time during each payment cycle. To keep things simple, you may wish to think of ‘end of the month’ as the last day of the month. After your payment is issued, please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery, depending on your location and the form of payment you’ve selected.

What about the 25th? I read somewhere that I’m supposed to get my checks by that day.

That’s a reissue date that applies to the month after a standard delivery check is issued. Let’s say you earned $200 in June and removed all payment holds before July 15th. We’d then issue you a check at the end of July, which we’d expect to reach you by August 25th.

I’ve selected EFT. Does that mean my payments get processed faster by Google?

No, the processing time is still the same for EFT and checks. However, once processed and issued, EFT payments typically reach publishers more quickly, since they’re directly deposited into bank accounts. If you’re issued an EFT payment at the end of July, we expect that you’ll see it in your bank account by August 5th. If you’re issued a standard delivery check at the end of July, we expect that you’ll receive it by August 25th.

After reading through this info, we hope you feel like an expert on payments. We’ve used the current month in all of the examples, but feel free to refer back to this post again in the future. If you’d like to learn more about AdSense payments, we recommend reviewing our Payments Demo, Payment Guide, and subscribing to the AdSense Calendar.

Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

Let’s imagine that you’re the AdSense Crawler. You’re bouncing along all over the Internet, visiting publishers’ sites, and letting the AdSense system back at Google know what the pages are all about. Then one day, you run into a site that asks you for a login and password. “Huh? I don’t have a username and password to this site. How am I going to crawl the pages behind that login?”

This is something our crawler sees every day here at AdSense. The result is that your users end up with poorly targeted ads and the AdSense Crawler ends up with sleepless nights, wondering what could have been — if only it had crawled those pages.

We’ve recently launched a new feature called Site Authentication to take care of this problem. Using Site Authentication, you can give our crawler access to your login-protected pages by passing it information to log into your site. For example, let’s say your news site has a premium content area, with articles that only paying members can access. To get ads on those pages, you can use Site Authentication to provide our crawler with a test username and password. It’s an easy process that starts just by logging into your AdSense account and finding the ‘Site Authentication’ link under the ‘AdSense Setup’ tab. Once you’ve supplied us with a username, password, and a few other details, all you have to do is verify that you own the site through Google Sitemaps.

If this sounds a little complicated, don’t worry — just check out Site Authentication in your account and follow the instructions on the page. Please note that you will only have access to this feature if you’ve updated your AdSense login to a Google Account. We appreciate your patience as we roll out this feature to additional publishers.

If you need additional help, feel free to visit our Help Center. Once you’ve set up your authentication rule and verified ownership, it may take 1-2 weeks for our crawler to visit your site again. Your users will thank you, and so will the AdSense Crawler.

Posted by Jack Chou - AdSense Publisher Support