You have just started your blog and looking for ways to monetize it. One of those ways is to sign up for Google Adsense.
Google AdSense is a program run by Google that allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to serve automatic text, image, video, or interactive media advertisements, that are targeted to site content and audience. ~ Wikipedia
Guaranteed making money using Google Adsense is not what it used to be 10, 5 or even 2 years ago. Because of the number of people using Google Adsense increasing day by day, the amount of money you can make has exponentially decreased over the years.
Especially, if you don’t want to spam your readers with ads from each corner of your website. And would like to monitor the types of ads being displayed on your site.
Then why should you sign up?
One, the couple hundred dollars you will make in a year will be enough to pay for hosting.
And most importantly, because the ads being displayed on your website will be dynamic (meaning, it is tailored per individual and not the same static ad), you will be able to monitor what your readers are clicking at and create products, services and content for that particular audience.
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To get started, you will first visit this the Adsense website.
Google Adsense Sign Up
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If you don’t want to use this, then log out and follow the above link again.
If you already have an Adsense account with your chosen gmail account you will be required to log in. If you are account is yet to be verified you will not be able to access all the functionalities of your dashboard.
At this point you can decide to review your Adsense account or create a new one using the below steps.
Claim Website
First off, you will be required to claim your website. Duh! How obvious can that get.
Choose your preferred language.
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Finally click “Save and Continue”
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Contact information
This is the last step for now.
You need to provide Google Adsense with your personal contact information.
How should they contact you?
Towards the end, you can stipulate what kind of emails would you like to receive from Google Adsense.
You can always come back and change this. Once your account has been verified.
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Finally click on “Submit my application”
Agree to Terms and Conditions
All this will be useless if you do not agree to terms and conditions for Google Adsense.
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After you finalize creating your Adsense account, you will have to wait for Google Adsense to reach out to you. Usually takes about three to five days. But it can be more or less depending with the amount of traffic you receive at the moment.
Once they reach out to you, you will be required to insert an HTML code to your <head> tag. So as they can review your site. This also takes around three to five days. Or more or less. Depending with the amount of traffic you get.
Once you are verified, you can now host ads to your website.
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Once that is done, you can starting earning from Google Adsense.
Have you signed up for an Adsense account?
Let me know in the comment section below.
