Make Money Online (part 5) - Monetize Blog with AdSense I

Before you start monetize your blog with Google AdSense, you must be sure that you have some content on blog. Simply spoken, you must have enough posts on your blog. There doesn't exist necessary number of posts, but I think that 10 posts is optimum count to start using Google AdSense on your blog (5 posts is minimum). Before you can add Google AdSense ads on your site, your page will be checked by AdSense team.
I am not sure, if to start monetize blog, before attract some visitors. When you don't have visitors, you can't earn money from blog. But on the other side, it is better to have AdSense ads on blog, and you can earn some money also with small amount of visitors. I will show you in next posts how to attract people to visit your blog. When you check your stats in Google Analytics you can have some visitors from Google or other search engines, some from blogger.com site, and some visits from your friends. How much, depends on your niche.

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Now I start with introduction of Google AdSense program. Google AdSense is system that shows adverts on your site. Big advantage of this system, that ads are relevant to content of your pages. You are paid, if somebody click on your ads. After clicking on ads, is visitor redirected page on clicked ad. Sometimes you can be also paid, when you show ad a lot of times. But main earnings are from clicks on ads on your site. This is why is this system called PPC (Paid Per Click). Google AdSense is the most used system on sites of the world. And usually it is the best system, how to earn some money from your site. Google AdWords other side of this system. There webmasters create ads, they want to show on other sites (This is paid system of course).

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From previous information, it is important to know that Google made this system fraud click safe. If you think, that you earn money by clicking on your own ads, or your friends will click on your ads and you will profit from it, don't use this system. Because you will never see money from Google. Big Brother, Google, has many possibilities to collect information about each of us. Google AdSense check various patterns to prevent invalid clicks on ads. Once is your AdSense account checked as suspicious, it is only question of time, when you will be banned. After banning from Google you will lost all money on your account, and it is almost impossible to register to system again. There are some alternatives, but usually are these alternatives worse that Google AdSense program. You can earn more or less money. Your earnings will increase, only when you will be patient and hard-working.

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Before start with AdSense, you have to register your blog to program. For registration you will use your Google account. But you must fill more informations. It is important to enter correct data, especially your address. These data will be used also for sending checks. Keep in mind, that when you will enter false information, your registration can be declined. At last you must check that you read their policies (Read them carefully!!!), that you will not click on your ads and that you don't have another account. Then press button Submit Information. It can take 24 hour to AdSense team accepts or refuse your site. In case, that your site will be refused, read carefully reason, correct mistakes and resubmit your application. Now, the most important information: You must earn minimum 100 USD, to be paid. You will be paid 30-th of next month, when your balance reach 100 USD. More info you can find in Payment Guide. I hope that it will be soon, you will receive your first payment.

In next post I will show you, how to create ads, and how to add them to blog.

Many webmaster forums are full of posts with titles I am banned from Google AdSense. Why? Because most of them didn't read Google AdSense Policies. Don't do the same mistake.

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Used terms and abbreviations
PPC
Pay Per Click is an advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content websites/blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an ad to visit the advertiser's website.
Google AdSense
Ad serving program run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image and, more recently, video advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-impressions basis.
Google AdWords
offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads.

Make Money Online (part 4) - Check your traffic

At last part you have created your first post in blog. I hope that you write more posts to your blog. It is nothing worse than dead blog or dead forum. Before you gain some traffic to your blog, it is good to know how much traffic it is. And how to do it, I will show you in this post.

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You must use your Google Account, that you created while creating your blog. This account you will use for more tools available on Google. One form best free tools for checking traffic, is Google Analytics. At first click at link above.

After signing you will see screen like this. Here you press button Sign up.

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On next page you have to enter info about your blog. You must enter URL of your blog, country and time zone. Then press Continue button.

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On next page you have to fill some your personal information. When you do it, press button Continue. On next page you have read GOOGLE ANALYTICS TERMS OF SERVICE.After reading it (if you agree, of course) check checkbox Yes, I agree to the above terms and conditions. Then press button Create New Account.

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Now you will see code that it is necessary to add to your page. I recommend you to add New Tracking Code (ga.js). Otherwise you will not be to use some new features. I am using on my pages old one. But for my new blog I want to use new one. Copy code into clipboard.
Now open your Blogger.com in new window or tab. From Dashboard click on Template link for your blog.

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In text area with content of your template go to bottom area. There you find line with text </body> in it. Above this line insert your code from clipboard. Then press button Save Template Changes. After changing your template you must republish your blog. Now you will find on every source page of your blog your tracking code.

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Return back to Google Analytics page. There press button Check Status. Google Analytics check presence of tracking code, and if it is everything OK, Google Analytics will track your visitors. Next available data you will see tomorrow, because it take some time to collect enough data. You can now check data on daily basis. To have good data it is good to filter your own visits. You can do it in Filter Manager where you can exclude from result your IP address, city, or country.

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Google Analytics is complex traffic tools with many options. To Describe all features in this blog is impossible. How to use all its features, is best to study from context links on right side of screen. I am sure that you will find a lot of useful info there.

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Used terms and abbreviations
Web traffic
is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site.
Google Analytics
(abbreviated GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website.

Make Money Online (part 3) - Write your first post

At last part you have created your own blog. Now I will show you how to write posts to your blog on Blogger.com. It is on you, what will be your first post about. In your first post on blog people usually introduce himself, and introduce niche of their blog. Now let me show you some parts of your blog page.

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After logging in to blogger you will see screen like this. This screen is called Dashboard. Here you can see list of your blogs. You can manage your blogs from there. Link New Post shows you screen for creating new posts, link Posts shows you screen with all posts in blog. After clicking on link Settings you can set options for your blog. Link Template is for advanced users, because here you can edit appearance of your blog. How to change template of your blog I will show you in next posts. Now click on link Posts.

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When you click on link Posts you will see all posts written in your blog. Our blog is empty and we must write new post to fill our posts list. Let click on blue link New Post.

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Here you can write simply your post.
  At first fill Title for your post. Think carefully about it. Title is most important thing. It must be short but it must simply describe content of your post. Title will attract people to read your post. Title is also important from SEO view. And title is also distributed with your RSS feed.
  In middle field you can write your post. You can simply paste it from Microsoft Word, or write it online in Blogger. Try to write your post as interesting as it is possible. If you want to earn some money from your blog,, it must attract visitors. It is good to add some photos or images to your post. And it is also important separate your posts to paragraphs. Try to use Preview link to look on your post how it will look.
  Blogger do autosave of your new post. If you want to be sure you will lost nothing, press button Save Now for saving your changes. When you will finish with your content, add one or more labels to your post. At last check your post and carefully read its content. When you think, that it is OK, press button Publish Post.

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You create your first post in blog. If you wanna see how it looks, click on link View Blog. You will be redirected to your blog. In next part I will learn you how to check traffic for your blog. I will show you how to insert stats code for your blog, and how to check your traffic. Now you can continue with writing next posts to your blog.

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Used terms and abbreviations
SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural search results for targeted keywords. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results, or the higher it ranks, the more searchers will visit that site.
RSS Feed
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.

Make Money Online (part 2) - Create your own blog

In this part I will show you how to create your own first blog. In previous part you had to find your niche, topic of your blog. If you have found any, try to write list of words that best describe your topic. If you didn't find one, try to think about your topic now, or simply create your personal diary blog.

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As host for our blog we use the most used free host for blogs Blogger.com. Blogger is owned by Google company. We will use much more tools from Google and you will need to register on Google and create your Google account. If you have Google account log in it on Blogger on top right side of page. Otherwise you will create one on Blogger pages. Press button Create your blog now. If you don't have account, you will create one on first page.

Now it is time to use your list of words for your niche. If you want to create your personal diary blog try to use your name or your nickname for Blog Address (URL) field. Otherwise you try to find most simple word or words combination from your list, write it to field and click on Check Availability link to check if you can use this URL. Now you can fill Blog Title field. It is also good to use words from your list. Title of blog it is possible to change also in future. At last fill Word Verification field and press button Continue.

Now only choose some template for your blog. It is on you which one you choose. It is also possible to change it later. Press button Continue again. On next page press button Start Posting

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Now you have your own blog and you can create your posts to blog. But there is a long way before you. You can prepare some posts for your topic straight in your blog itself or you can only write it simply in Microsoft Word editor. In next post I will show you how to write your posts in blog.


I wrote you in this post how to create blog in easy and free way. There are also other choices. You can register your own domain and pay hosting company to host your domain. This is much more complicated process, and I will not write it here in this post. In that case you will spend to 10 USD/year to domain registration and about 100 USD/year on hosting. I can recommend you Namecheap.com for domain registration and Hostgator.com for hosting. I am using them and I am satisfied with them.

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Used terms and abbreviations
Niche
A niche market is a focused targetable portion (subset) of a market sector.
Domain
A machine or virtual host on the Internet; the name of a domain (the "domain name") can be confused with the domain itself.
Hosting
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity.