How to Sign Up for Adsense and Earn Money at Third-Party Sites

Google's Adsense has traditionally been a way to monetize (earn income from) your own website or blog. But more and more sites are using Adsense in "third party" revenue sharing arrangements. Here's how you can get your Adsense account, to take advantage of the many opportunities it provides.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. ***Take a look around***
   
   This eHow page contains numerous types of ads, both in, and around the article. Some are listed as "Ads by Google". These are Adsense advertisements. The ads are intended to be context-relevant. That is, if the article is about cars, the ads should be about cars as well. An article about mortages will generate ads from banks, and so on. The ads are generated by a small bit of HTML code that is provided once a site signs up with the Adsense program.
2. ***How Adsense Generates Income***
   
   Anyone who owns a website or a blog can sign up with Adsense, to monetize their site. Everytime a visitor clicks on an ad, the advertiser pays a fee, some of which goes to Google, and some of which goes to the website owner (in this case, eHow). For instance, if a visitor to eHow clicked on an ad for a Visa credit card, Visa would pay (I'm making these numbers up) fifty cents. Of that 50 cents (still making things up), Google would keep 20 cents and give eHow the rest. eHow, generous company that it is, would further split the income, so eHow keeps (yep...making this up) 15 cents, and pays the author 15 cents.
   
   Everybody's happy in this wonderfully capitalistic system. Visa gets potential customers, eHow earns a good income, the writers earn a decent amount, and Google gradually takes over the whole world.
3. ***How Third Parties Share Income***
   
   eHow pays its writers through PayPal. In this set up, there is no need for an individual writer to have an Adsense account, but they do have to have a PayPal account.
   
   At other sites, writers are paid directly through Adsense, so in this case, it is necessary for the writer to have an Adsense account of their own. Adsense income is paid once a month, either by check, or by electronic transfer to a bank account.
4. Xomba ***Xomba***
   
   For instance, Xomba is a third-party site that, like eHow, earns money through Adsense ads, and shares its advertising income with authors. However, the writers are paid directly through Adsense. The ads at Xomba contain a code that identifies the writer's account, and credits them for every click. You can see this in action at one of my Xomba articles (see Resource links, below, for a direct link).
5. Google Knol ***Google Knol***
   
   Google Knol is another site where writers can directly earn Adsense income as long as they have an Adsense account (see Resource links, below, for more about Knol...it's new, and it looks pretty exciting). Any clicks on the advertisements at Knol will be credited directly to the writer's Adsense account.
6. Flixya.com ***Flixya.com***
   
   Check out Flixya, another third-party site that passes along some of the Adsense income to writers.
7. ***What Are You Waiting For?***
   
   As you can see, you'll need to have an Adsense account of your own if you want to either (a) put Adsense ads on your own site or blog, or (b) particpate in third-party programs like Knol, Xomba, or Flixya. To get started, just head to the Adsense sign-up page...see the Resource links directly below for the Adsense link.

Tips & Warnings

• Never click on ads to generate income for yourself (or your friends). These are considered fraudulent clicks, and Big Brother Google does NOT like them.