How to Start Making Money Off Your Blog Right Away with Adsense
Well, now that we’ve all got our blogs up and running… it’s time to start thinking about… ah… MAKING MONEY.
The truth is, it can take YEARS to make money blogging. It takes time to start getting traffic. But, I’m of the opinion that you should start monetizing your blog right away. The reason why is, there is nothing quite like seeing your blog make money to motivate you to make it better and get more traffic — even if, at first, your profits probably won’t pay for a burger and fries.
The easiest, simpliest, quickest way to start “monetizing” your blog — geekspeak for “making money off of” — is to use Google Adsense.
For people knew to this, the search engine Google makes money two ways:
1. By SELLING ads through its Adwords Program; and
2. By BUYING ads (or, more properly, brokering ads) on people’s websites through Adsense.
Some people, like me, use both: I BUY advertising through Adwords and I SELL advertising through Adsense (although not on the same sites, a violation of Google’s dreaded Terms of Service).
It only takes a few minutes to get up and running with Adsense — and like everything else associated with blogging, putting Google ads on your blog comes down (once again!) to merely copying and pasting blocks of HTML code.
I have about a dozen blogs at the moment but only one or two are making me any real money through Adsense — but it’s starting to add up. A few months ago, I started making $10 a day through Adsense… then $20… now $30. My goal is to get up to $100 a day on a consistent basis or $3,000 per month.
One thing that REALLY make a big difference for me was using “Adsense optimized WordPress themes” for my blogs. My Adsense income literally TRIPLED almost overnight when I switched themes.
Here is a link to some cool “Adsense Optimized WordPress themes.” The one I like a lot is “BlueSense.” (However, I’m not sure if this is available through the free WordPress site.) I installed it on my hosted websites by FTPing the files to the server like I describe in this video here. Here’s a little blog on natural cures I started that uses BlueSense (although I modified it to more like “Greensense.” It really shows you you can change the colors to fit your blog and get maximum impact for your Adsense ads.
Once again, these Adsense-optimized WordPress themes are FREE! Just download the file to your computer and then follow my instructions for uploading it to your hosted site. Easy as pie.
Of course, you have to already have an Adsense account to make use of these themes. Perhaps I will do a video on that topic soon.
