Adding Google Adsense Ads To Your Blog

Google AdSense is easy to install on a web page or blog and it can mean additional source of income without spending anything. You have to go to Google and apply for Google AdSense Program, generally approval comes within two days. If you have an AdWord account you can use AdWord e-mail address and password for AdSense account also.

Once your application is accepted, Google will confirms creation of your Adsense account thru e-mail and give you a code for AdSense text ads and another code for AdSense search. You have to install these codes on web page or blog and within minutes the page will start displaying ads from Google, and a Google search bar. AdSense is available in a couple of languages worldwide, just verify online whether it is available in your language.

The code for AdSense can be placed on any page on your website. Personally I think placing it on your blog will give you distinct advantage because blogs have several points in their favor as they are easily indexed by search engines. It can even be faster with Yahoo! Just by adding the URL of your blog to your My Yahoo page, Yahoo! will start accessing it immediately. GoogleAlert is a free tool that can be used to know when your blog is indexed by Google.

Try using blogger.com and also other services and you can have your your blog up and running in minutes free of cost. With blogs you do not need to worry about designing websites, registering domain name or hiring web hosting service. Simply write your content on the blog and it is ready for publication.

A handy little utility that you can also use is Google AdSense Sandbox Tool. With Adsense wide range of options is available - number of ads for display, shape and size of display, color schemes. Hundreds of colors are available to choose from. You can choose colors for border, background and text. 24 pre-set color palettes are readily available; in addition you can have your own custom-palette to match with the color scheme of your web page. Color schemes are also available for Google search bar.

When the web page is opened, matching and highly relevant Google ads are placed. Google finds right ads for the web page from 100,000 AdWord advertisers.

You can choose from several options available for the ads that you would like to be displayed on your page. Ad filters can be activated which will block up to 200 URL's which you do not want to show on your page. You may like to filter away ads from your competitors. You can even choose your own default ads for display. Google uses sensitive content filters to prevent display of sensitive material. If you find that your page is not really getting relevant ads, it may be time to look critically at the content of the page, particularly the keywords used in text, links and tags. Little SEO on the page should resolve this problem.

Sometimes Google may place public service ads when no target ads are available. To suppress public service ad, specify your own image ad or HTML page ad which will appear in place of public service ad. This ensures that some ad is always present there. Or, if you like, the space reserved for Adsense ads can be made to collapse.

With AdSense tracker you can track ads on your page, generate reports. The reports can be customized based on requirement. Typically reports can give page impressions displayed, number of clicks and click-thru rates. It is also possible to check earnings any time. Check out this tool should you need to use it as it is a valuable tool in monitoring and tracking.

Consider installing AdSense on your website as you have virtually nothing to lose. Any free space which can be created on your website to accommodate AdSense can be used to generate additional income.