How to Put Adsense Ads on Your Website to Earn Money

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By Judy Cutler
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Adsense is the revenue sharing part of Google. Adsense supplies sites like ehow.com with the dollars to pay writers like us but in addition if you have a website you can earn part of the revenue from Google by placing the same kind of ads on your website. I have spent the last 3 days doing it and while I am not an expert it just took a little doing and following some instructions to begin. At the end of this article you can see a reference to my website and see how it is coming out. This will help you learn how to layout the page. This instruction guide is for those who build their own websites as well as for those who will give the instructions to their web developer.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

A Google account with adsense.
A Google account with youtube.com
A website
Some time

Step 1

You can place ad content on your site in the form of text or images. In addition you can place videos from Youtube.com. Here is how it works. You have to get the html code from adsense and paste it into your website. It is a very simple cut and paste system. You don't write and code. You do select the size, shape and color scheme of your ads. As you can see the ads on ehow are mostly blue and white for text ads but a variety of colors for image ads. On my website (referenced at the bottom of this article) my ads are in red, white and blue to match the color scheme of my website. You get to select the frame (border), text, link and background color of the text ads or even the youtube videos. Below is the step by step.
Step 2

First, go to google.com type in adsense. You will see ads come up. Next get a login account. When you reach $100 in revenue they send a check the following month. So you are logging in and setting up your mail address and info. You don't enter any credit card or bank info. Spend a little time checking out the different tabs for reports, get ads etc. It is like learning your way around ehow. Just browse.
Step 3

Next go to GET ADS (upper left corner). They have 5 types of ads. The easiest to start with is text and image content ads which is the first of the list of 5 types. Click next. They have a link to a page which shows you various sizes and styles. Select the ones best for you. I have most of my ads on the right side of each page. I did not want to revamp my whole website so I increased page width to 1250 and just added them to the right. I selected long and narrow ads.
Step 4

Next I selected my color scheme and named it and now it is my default so I do not have to pick the color scheme each time I make an ad. They encourage you to name your ad so if you want to alter it for size you know which page it went to such as "home page text 1" and "home page text 2". You are allowed to add 3 text/image ads and 3 link ads to each of your pages.
Step 5

Next, I went down the list of 5 choices and added in youtube videos. You can select the size and style. When someone clicks on the video an ad will run first and then the youtube video. You can either select the type of ad eg. Sports, Business and so on from a list or let them run what they want. They will select the type of video from a keyword list you can put in or they will select a video that comes from the keywords on your page.
Step 6

If you put in content ads from text and/or images and users click on them they leave your site. If you put on youtube vidoes and the users click they do not leave your site. Think it through before you set things up. If you do not want users to leave your site just put on youtubes. In addition, there are feeds and other resources but I do not know how to do them yet. I hope this article helps get you started. Good luck making money. I made about 62 cents in my first 3 days but I have just begun to add the advertisements to my pages and I hope it grows well. It will depend on how much traffic your site gets.