What is an AdSense Website?

This site is an AdSense website! AdSense sites are info sites, which earn money through placement of Google Adsense ads on the page, like those on sidebars, and the bottom of the pages on this site.

The Google AdSense program allows you to place these ads on your site. You get paid every time someone clicks on one of the ads. Google's clients contract with them for advertising, and the clients pays Google for each ad click. Google then pays you a percentage from that click.

Depending on a number of factors, you get paid anywhere from a penny or two, to a dollar or two, per click. Please note, Google has strict guidelines and does not permit clickfraud, so don't decide to get in here and just click on your own ads. Google analyzes the click patterns and and will terminate your Adsense account for violating its policies.

Google has content standards as well, and your site has to meet those standards or they won't approve you for an Adsense account. If you have topics on your site that they do not allow such as adult content, violence, drugs, ect.. Other advertising programs are available. However, the rules about building the site and maintaining high quality are essentially the same.

Earning income from AdSense is fairly slow, and you generally have to do a lot of work to build a site, and create or gather content, and then do some marketing before you start to see any income. A site may start out making just a few cents or dollars per month, and then slowly build power. Long term, a single site can make you a significant amount per month - According to the statistics I read somewhere, the average site makes about $20 per month with Google Adsense, but it really is not difficult to make significantly more than that through page optimization, getting more traffic, or adding more content. Google wants you to make money - they are looking for win-win relationships.

There are three basic strategies to make more money with your web site, as I just mentioned:

1. Optimize the pages. adjust ad placement, colors, and the words on the site to increase the clicks. You can theoretically increase the amount you earn per click, but there are definitely some cautions about doing that!

2. Get more traffic. On most sites, there will be a close relationship between the traffic and the amount you earn. Earning about $10 per month for every 500 visitors is not an uncommon ratio, and if you can get more traffic, that average goes up along with the traffic.

3. Build more pages. If you have a site that is popular, you can just add onto that site. If you have other things you'd like to build sites about, then you can build more sites. Once you get going, your new sites will generally be a bit quicker to get going than your old ones, because you can link them into your old sites.

The real advantage to AdSense income is that it allows you to present sites on topics that you really enjoy. You don't have to sell anything either!

My life demands a high degree of flexibility, and it is just really cool that I can take time off when I need to (I have a son with cancer, so this is an issue), and when I come back, nobody is mad at me because they needed me to keep to their schedule.

If you can write well, or research and copy and paste, then there is a good chance you can learn the other skills needed to do this. The investment is very low, you just need some software, a computer, and an internet connection - you can use free software if you have to (it has some quirks, but it DOES work!). You also need a domain name, and hosting (I'd never recommend trying it without paid hosting).

It takes some time to get it going, but you can do that on your own schedule too. It is not like a business that demands that you man it on regular hours even before it begins to earn, this one you can build a little at a time, until it starts to return something, with no pressure from customers, no risk of having to give refunds you cannot afford, etc...

You can be totally independent with this work. You never have to work someone else's program or try to get a downline to listen to you. Additional income streams can be added to your sites once it is up and running, and endless scope for producing niche sites on all kinds of topics.

There are four basic ways to get an AdSense Website:

1. Hire someone to build one. This will cost you anywhere between $150 (for professional help while you do most of the work), to $300 for a small website, on up. An extensive site may cost $1500 or more, but most infosites are less than that.

2. Build one yourself. You'll have to learn a lot. And it will take some time. Good resources help. After you build one, your next one will be MUCH easier!

3. Buy a functioning site. This will cost you between $200 and a few thousand, depending on the success of the site. A $200 site will generally be one with a good idea, but little marketing, some traffic history, minimal AdSense earnings, and perhaps incomplete content. It will be more POTENTIAL than anything, but will have the structure in place for you to improve it. A site with traffic and earnings at all can usually be made better, as long as it has NOT been marketed aggressively (if it HAS been marketed aggressively and still shows minimal traffic or income, then something is REALLY wrong).

4. Buy a replicated site. If you do this, you'll have a LOT of work to do before you can get it working for you. Not as much as building it yourself from scratch, but no "ready made" solution either. They have built in problems, and correcting those will take some work. Replicated sites are cheap though, and can be worth it if you get a good one. Usually, once you go through the process of fixing one replicated site, you'll be more than ready to build one from scratch - the process can teach you a LOTabout websites.

Long term, for stable AdSense Income, nothing beats learning to build your own niche site, because then you provide something really unique, and it is your own dream and creation, not someone else's.

This job is not for everyone, but if you like to create, and can follow the instructions from this site, it sure can be both fun and rewarding!