Getting Google ads to appear on your web page is simplicity itself. You copy a chunk of code
from Google's site, paste it into your page and the ads appear just as you see here on the
left. And you can put the code on as many of your web pages/sites as you like.
Each time someone clicks on an ad on your page you clock up a few cents and every now and again those nice
people at Google send you a cheque. It's that easy. Google call this "AdSense for Content".
Getting the Google search box onto your page
To get the Google search box on your page you just copy another chunk of Google code
and this appears:
If someone searches from this box on your page and then clicks on one of the ads on the search results page, Google
pays you a few cents. Google call this "AdSense for Search".
Signing up to get Google Ads on your page
However, if you have an adult site Google won't put ads on it, so you'll need to go with someone like Netklix.
Whether you go with Netklix or Google it's free and there's no obligation and it should take you less
than an hour to sign up and get ads up and running on your site.
To get Google ads on your web page just click here and follow Google's instructions:
Experience with Google AdSense Ads on a Web Site
Getting Google Ads
I'd always wondered how some sites had Google Ads on their pages. I guess I'd assumed you had to be
a big corporation and have some sort of high-powered contract with Google.
I think it was when I was trying to get a site indexed and went to the Add URL page that
I saw a link to Google AdSense and followed it. Although the terms Google use - "AdSense for Content" and "AdSense for
Search" - are rather obscure I read the blurb and sort of half understood it.
Not really knowing what AdSense for Content was I signed up anyway (it's free) and experimented. It was only
when I copied Google's Adsense for Content code onto one of my pages and uploaded it that I realised the obvious:
"Adsense for Content" means the Google Ads that you see appearing on the left at the top of this page.
Emboldened, I pasted the "Adsense for Search" code and the Google search box appeared on my page. Easy peasy.
Will I get rich by having Google Ads on my site
Will Google AdSense make you rich? Er, no.
Unless your page gets hundreds of thousands of hits a day maybe. I've been going about a month and my experinece
has been that if you get a few hundred hits a day you might earn a couple of dollars a day. No doubt this varies
greatly. Advertisers can bid to pay anything from 1 cent each time someone clicks on an Ad on your page. Google
don't say what percentage they keep and what percentage they pass on to you.
So, I'd speculate that if your site is found with unpopular or uncommercial search words you're going to
be in a-few-cents-per-click territory but if your site is popular and found with very commercial keywords my guess is
you'd surely get a lot more per click. For example, if Boeing sold planes on the web and your site ranked top
for searches on "I want to buy a plane" Boeing might be prepared to pay you quite a lot each time someone clicked
through to them from your page.
And by the way, for UK
residents Google will send you a cheque in good old British pounds. And I daresay they might even
send you a cheque in Euros if you were so inclined.
So, you probably ain't gonna get rich but it's quite fun playing with page layouts to see how it affects the
number of click-throughs and seeing how much you're earning each day.
Example of Google Ads HTML code on a Web Page
If you would like to see an example of an HTML web page with google ads incorporated into it which also uses
CSS, click View then click Source. You will then see the source HTML of this web page which shows how simple and easy
it is to copy and paste the google ads JavaScript code into your website.
Practical example of google ads: getting paid by google
Just had my first cheque from Google! Lovely jubbly!
It's now 3 months since I put the google code onto one of my web pages. Having got the code on one page
I've simply copied and pasted the same code onto several of my web pages on various sites
- no need to go back to the google site each time.
The 160-wide ads definitely do better than the 120-wide ads. I haven't tried any of the other ad layouts
on offer on google's site - maybe they would do even better I don't know, but I would suggest you experiment with
various layouts.
The cents-per-click has gone up a bit since I started. I don't know why this is. Could be that Google
monitors which ads people click on and put on your site the ones that earn the most revenue
- i.e. max cents-per-click x average number-of-clicks-per-day. That's how I would do it if I were Google anyway.
Another possibility is that advertisers are starting to bid up the price-per-click to appear on my site, though this
seems less likely as I can't imagine advertisers even being aware of my humble little sites, let alone bidding to appear
on them.
The Google Adsense reports don't show cents-per-click which is odd as personally I find this
the most interesting statistic - I've written to Google suggesting they add that column to their adsense reports.
How to get Google Ads on your web page and earn money