Google AdSense is a type of advertising program that matches ads to your website, YouTube videos, or blog according to your niche content. The ads are paid for by advertisers who need a platform to promote their products.
Launched in the middle of 2003, Google AdSense is the most popular advertising program on the internet.
In fact, Google pays $10 billion a year to its publishers, which is achieved through allowing Google to run content-appropriate ads on websites, blogs, YouTube channels, and more.
The whole process of joining Google AdSense is very easy and cost-free. It’s free to join, and virtually all websites are eligible for monetization.
The ads can be customized depending on your website for relevancy, and Google will pay you with a monthly direct debit when you meet the $100 profit threshold.
In a nutshell, Google AdSense is a system that generates targeted ads alongside your website at no extra cost. When you meet the eligibility criteria, you will be paid by Google AdSense to run these ads, resulting in easy and quick income.
Types Of Google AdSense Ads
Google AdSense ads vary far more than the classic text-based ads.
Google offers a variety of ad types to generate revenue and look more attractive to users, including:
Test-based ads: These ads can be customized in font, color, and text size.
Video ads
Animated image ads
Image ads: Graphic ads are great for drawing attention to the specific ad.
Rich media ads: These ads are interactive, including a video, flash, and HTML.
AdSense for search: Your website will have a search bar that goes straight to a page with AdSense ads. These search pages can be customized to match the appearance of your website or blog.
Google will then generate ads onto your website pages that are either relevant to the content of your website, or relevant to the user’s previous searches based on their algorithm.
Once users start to click on those ads, you will be paid for it thanks to Google’s cost-per-click basis, which is also revenue-sharing.
All you have to do is make sure the ads are relevant to your niche and find a way to ensure people are clicking on them! These ads can range from image ads to text-based ads to video ads.
You can also determine the placement of the ads according to what generates the most revenue.
Google Analytics is an ideal tool to use when researching the user-friendliness of your website. User experience is the key to running a successful website, which is why there should always be more content than ads running.
Google Analytics helps website owners test the placement, number, and style of ads to generate more clicks.
However, money cannot be achieved by encouraging people to click on those ads. Not only does this look dodgy to a lot of users (who will assume the ad is a scam when they’re told to click on it), but Google will consider this as click fraud.
Google has every right to suspend accounts that show suspicious activity, which can ban you from ever using AdSense again.
How Much Money Can I Get From Google AdSense?
As mentioned before, Google pays AdSense accounts based on how many clicks they get per ad. It’s not easy to say how much you will earn per click, as the commission is based on the competition and CPC (cost per click) in your niche.
In most cases, niche websites will get less than $3 per click, but other niches are more profitable.
So, if you want to make more money from Google AdSense, then you need to research the most profitable niches on the market. These niches can change, but generally the most profitable ones are Marketing & Advertising, Insurance, and Online Education.
So, there you have it. Hopefully, this guide has taught you everything there is to know about Google AdSense, and why it’s so easy to make money from the popular advertising program.
Hi, my name is Justin Shaw, I started my career with a Masters in Computer Science but found writing to be my forte'.
I'm now the Principal Tech writer for GshiftLabs.com as well as a few other well known publications. I help make the complex world of Tech-Jargon easy to understand.
