There are a number of different ways to make money on your web site, however, Google AdSense might be the most popular choice of all. Google has made it a brain-dead simple process to get up and running their their ads, so there is no question why they are number one at what they do.
How do you Sign Up and Use Google AdSense?
Signing up is a pretty easy process. All you need to do is sign in with your Google login, and follow the on screen instructions. Once that is done, you can create the ads you want to use, then grab the code for them to place them into your web site. I have been using it for so long, I don’t see where this could be seen as a complicated process. They make it all pretty easy.
You also have several different ways you can setup ads.
- AdSense for Content – your run-of-the-mill ads you are used to seeing.
- AdSense for Search – use Google to power your web site’s search and make money from it.
- AdSense for Feeds – Place relevant ads in your RSS feeds.
- AdSense for Domain Names – Park your un-used domains with Google.
- Video Units – add YouTube partners’ video content to your site, and earn extra revenue.
- AdSense for Mobile Content – create ads for special “mobile” pages.
What Are the Rewards of Using Google AdSense?
The good thing about Google AdSense is that it automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers text and image ads that are relevant to your audience and your site content. Relative ads are what you want in the long haul.
Now you will not become rich over night, so if you want to quit your day job – you had better set your goal a little lower. However, aiming at small goals first (such as having the ads pay for your $5 a month hosting bill) is a good start.
Want to learn more? Here are some Google AdSense resources worth checking out:
Overall, I would say it is definitely work checking into. If you are looking for a name you can trust, Google has won many people over in that aspect too. Sometimes, I don’t want to sign up with some company I have never heard of, especially when I need to get or receive important information from them (thinking about tax related stuff). So overall, I would say Google AdSense will not make you uber-rich but it is a trustworthy choice out there.
The domain name business, sometimes referred to as the confusing cousin of the web hosting business, has some odd slang tied to it. One phrase you may or may not of heard of is domain sniping.
Ah I remember 2005, like it was… a few years ago. 
I am back in my chair with the microphone strapped to my head, so that only mean one thing. It is time to talk hosting from the free file hosting choices you have out there all the way down to GoDaddy’s lackluster marketing team. The Web Hosting Show is on the air and ready for download.
Like an unlit firework on the 4th of July, the Web Hosting Show is back and ready to burst with excitement anytime now. All we need is for you to ignite the flame, tune in, and we will have a web hosting blast like the world has never seen. The Web Hosting Show is back on the air.
Not just any podcast, the Web Hosting Show is back this week for episode 165. What is lined up for this week’s broadcast across the web hosting world? Well we have a little scam brewing with one domain name register, and we also have a lot of handy FeedBurner tools I bet you didn’t know existed.
ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. You can think of them as the overloads of domain names. The purpose of ICANN is to coordinate everything about domains. They are like the godfather of the domain name world.
Another domain name term you often hear tossed out in conversation is domain name speculation. What is it? Well this refers to buying a domain name with the intent of selling it later at a higher price. Now not just any domain name is a good one to speculate on.
