Google Adsense is a great way to make a nice, passive, hands free income from the internet & it can be one of the best ways for to get your feet wet if you’re new to the world of internet marketing.

What is Google Adsense?

Google Adsense is Google’s website ad network publishing program. Website owners who want to promote their website more on Google, sign up for Google Adwords. They create ads, & then set how much they want to pay each time someone clicks on their ads. These Adwords ads can display on the main Google search page, or on any of the sites in Google’s content network.

Now the Google content network is where you can make money…very good money in fact.

When you sign up for Google Adsense, Google provides you with some website code that you place on your site. Using this code, Google is able to display the Adwords ads on your site as well. Each time someone clicks on an ad on your site, Google pays you a share of the money that the advertiser pays them for each click.

Why Should You Use Google Adsense on Your Site?

Once set up, Google Adsense provides a great, hands free source of income for you & it’s very easy to get started. All you need to get going is a website domain name, website hosting, WordPress & a few articles – this should only cost you about $15.

You don’t need to be able to sell anything or design flash looking websites (in fact many successful Adsense sites are actually quite ugly)…all you need to be able to do is write some good content (articles etc.) for your site & give it a bit of promotion in the search engines. As soon as someone just clicks on one of your ads, you get paid.

…& considering many advertisers are willing to pay up to $20 or $30 for each & every click for certain keywords, it can mount up quite quickly!

You can also use Adsense as an extra income source on other sites you already have.

How Do You Get Started With Adsense?

It’s completely free to sign up for Google Adsense & you can do this right now by clicking here.
Next thing you need to do is some keyword research to find some keyword phrases that get a few thousand exact match searches each month, are paying a reasonable amount for each click but don’t have too much competition.

When you’re first getting started, the free Google Keyword Tool (appears to link to Adwords but will redirect to the keyword tool once signed in)  is the best place to do your keyword research. In fact I have quite a few other keyword research tools these days & I still use the GKT quite a lot !

Now Google seem to have changed things just recently, so that you need to be logged into a Google account to use the keyword tool – a free Gmail account should be all you need though (let me know if this isn’t the case).

How much should a keyword pay per click?

At least $1 is a pretty good ball park figure to start with. Yes, there are many keywords that pay much higher than that but they can also be too competitive.

Once you’ve decided on what keyword phrase/s you want to build your site on, it’s time to find a suitable domain name.

A few basic rules that I’ve found have worked well for my Adsense sites include:

• Try to get a .com, .net or .org domain name.
• Include the main keyword phrase you’re targeting in the domain if possible – this helps with getting good rankings.
• If the non-hyphenated version of the domain name isn’t available, the hyphenated version is ok as well.

Next step is to sign up for web hosting. Personally, I recommend HostGator.

Then, install WordPress on your site & find yourself a good Adsense theme. There are many good free & paid themes to choose from – when first starting out, a free one should do you fine until you start making some money.

After this, you can start creating some content for your new site. For starters, I’d write about 5 articles, about 400 to 500 words each, all targeting different keyword phrase/s that you’ve chosen from your keyword research.

Upload them to your site & also submit them to some of the better article directories like EzineArticles, GoArticles, ArticlesBase, Idea Marketers & Amazines. By submitting the articles to the article directories, you’re helping to build back links to your site – the more, good quality back links you can build to your site, the better your search engine rankings will be and the more traffic you’ll get.

Make sure you’ve correctly added the Adsense code to your site & the Adsense ads are displaying as they should.

Depending on what other website promotional techniques you use, it can take anywhere from a few days to a month or 2 before you start seeing much traffic to your site. So what do you do in the meantime?

Keep promoting & build more sites!

Now it’s not too difficult to get an Adsense site to the point where it’s earning $5 a day. $5 a day may not seem like much, but…you just start building more $5 a day sites.

Once you have 10 of these $5 a day sites, that’s $50 a day or around $350 a week. Build 30 of these sites & that’s $150 a day or $1050 a week. Are you starting to see the potential of building Adsense sites?

I haven’t been able to go into every little bit of detail about building an Adsense empire of your own, but hopefully this is enough to get you started. As always, if you have any questions at all, just ask in the comments and I’ll get back to you asap.