Using Google Adsense and blogs to make extra money

This is the second part of my series about making some extra money using some of your free/spare time. Today I want to talk about using a very popular advertising program called Adsense by the ever so popular search engine, Google.

The Adsense program allows you to place small or large text or graphic advertisements on your website. Adsense in turn shares a portion of their profits to you the publisher, or the displayer of the advertisements. You will only get paid for “clicks” on the advertisements and advertisers will only be charged for those clicks. In theory you could show millions of advertisements on your website and never get an actual click, but from my experience this usually doesn’t happen. If you have a large amount of traffic to your site you will get clicks.

1. Create a blog. Your blog should be something you know a lot about, something you have a passion for, or something you really want to learn a lot about. You will have to try to post a new blog everyday or at least every other day, so it’s good to know what you are talking about.
2. Choose a blog template that works with the Google Adsense program. There are tons of templates designed for displaying Adsense advertisements. Just do a quick search on your favorite search engine.
3. Read over the Google Adsense policies and guidelines. Make sure you blog follows all their rules.
4. Apply for the Google Adsense publisher program
5. Setup your first google advertisement and put it on your blog.
6. Write, write write. Try to add a new blog entry every day. Try to write at least 300 word articles. This will keep search engines interested in your blog, and in turn bring you more traffic.
7. Follow the rules of Adsense or you will get suspended. The biggest rule breaker is not clicking on your own advertisements. They have ways of tracking this and will give you the boot.
8. Tell all your friends to follow your blog. DON’T encourage them to click the advertisement, but if something interests them they will probably help out anyway. Post your blog on social networks, forums and other websites. The more you expose your site the more visitors you will get and the more cash you will make.
9. Once you get an established blog repeat this process as many times as you want. It only takes 10 or 15 per day to write a post, especially if it’s something you are already familiar with or something you are passionate about.
10. Collect the extra cash every moth to your paypal account or checking account!