Google AdSense, What's That?

Published 30 March 06 10:27 AM | adrian

If you've been reading my blog for a while (not via RSS), you should already seen some ads on the left side of the blog. These ads come from Google and targeted based on the content of the page. A lot of people asked me what those are, so here we go.

  1. It's a service by Google that displays ad on your site, and pays for doing so.
  2. It's a pay-per-click ad, that means I'm getting several cents every time you clicked on one of the ads.
  3. So far, I have managed to get 4.75USD. Not a big number, yet.
  4. 4.75USD comes from ~30 clicks, that means a click worth 15-20 cents.

It's interesting how much a click worth, I've even tried clicking ads on my own page...

Liked the business model? How about placing it on your own blog?

  1. Go to www.google.com/adsense, register for an account (this is different than your Google account!)
  2. Pick some colors and model that fits your layout.
  3. Take the generated code, and add them to the template of your blog (be it under the news, under the category label, etc.)
  4. Start clicking and get the money flowing.

OK, now here comes the catch, I am asking you to click on one of my ads every time you read a blog post here. Also put your AdSensed' blog on the comment, and I'll do the same to your ads. Let's rip Google off! :-)

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# adrian said on March 31, 2006 04:51 PM:

Mine is also still low in revenue :)

# adrian said on March 31, 2006 06:19 PM:

OK, blogrolled. :D

# adrian said on April 7, 2006 09:53 PM:

Hi, just browsing the Indonesian .NET developer forum and came across your blog.

You might wanna remove this post, because I think in Google Adsense's TOS, there's a warning about asking people to click on ads and clicking on your own ads (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies) ie, it might get you kicked out from the ADsense program.

Other than that.. nice blog :)

# adrian said on April 8, 2006 02:38 PM:

Darrick:

Yeah, I've read the TOS. I'm not exactly "requiring" people to click in order to use my service. And I've clicked my own ads to see how much each ad is worth.

Definitely a standard behaviour of someone doing something new, try out everything by yourself first.

So I think it's not something Google should worry about. :D

You have a good one, too!