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Putting Google AdSense on your website
Hey, have you got your own website by any chance? Fancy making a little bit of pocket money? Well, I just might be able to help you there. I'm sure you've heard of something called "Google AdSense"? Ever thought about putting a few adverts on your website and then let other people make money for you?
I know this sounds like one of those "if it's too good to be true then it probably is" schemes, but I promise you Google AdSense can be quite lucrative if setup properly.
I have been using Google AdSense on all of my websites for the last couple of years. Whereas I don't earn a fortune, certainly not enough to go buy myself my own desert island, however it is certainly enough to pay for the running of my websites with a little extra left over. I have created various tutorials that give you my take on setting up Google AdSense and how to implement it on your own website. Remember that it's not just a case of plonking ads anywhere, they have to be placed in the correct area of your website to maximise clicks from your visitors. It may be that you have to experiment until your click rate starts going up. One important factor is the amount of people you get visiting your website. In order for you to make a reasonable amount of money you will need to optimise your website so that you have a decent amount of people visiting you on a daily basis. It's really no good if you get a few visitors every day, you need hundreds of visitors to make it worthwhile. My advice would be forget about Google AdSense until you have got plenty of people visiting your website every day, you're wasting your time unless there are people there who are going to click on your Google adverts.
