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If you'd like to earn some online income but you're not sure where to start. You can't quit your day job until you have enough supplemental income or can at least see you hme business reach the intended income goals. So what should you do? Get an online income stream started on the side with this work at home business model... building AdSense sites.
What Are AdSense Sites?
These AdSense sites are usually websites you set up with keyword-rich content and strategically placed AdSense ads. You can never encourage people to click on the Adsense links as that will get you booted out of the program, but when people do click on the links you earn money for each click. They don't need to buy a product, but the originator of the AdSense ad hopes they will; you get paid for the click.
Usually, the site is set up and generally not manually maintained, meaning you don't keep adding content. There are options to keep content coming with the advent of plugins that pull in news feeds, EzineArticles, eBay auctions, Amazon product reviews and so on. Each of these serve a different goal and should be reviewed as to their efficiency and reliability, and whether they are legitimate.
Aren't AdSense Sites Dodgy?
Many times sites made for AdSense get a bad name because unethical marketers use content they've "scraped" illegally from other legitimate sites. Do it the right way, add content you have legal permission to use, and you won't have to worry about your sites getting banned or sandboxed by Google.
Your income on one or two sites probably won't be suffcient to pay the bills so you consider craeting a lot of sites. You also need a lot of is traffic. If people don't come to check out your website, they won't be able to click on your AdSense links.
Selling Ads Directly
Another option you can use to make money from ads on a website is by offering ad placement on your site for a fee. However, before you do this, build up your site with great, quality content and employ article marketing and backlinking to help build up your traffic. The more traffic you get, the more you can charge for an ad. If you have high traffic numbers, the company placing the ad will be willing to pay more for it because high exposure to viewers and possible sales.
Check out some of the bigger blogs and see how and what they offer in the way of advertising. If adding advertisement to your site doesn't seem like enough income for you, try a three-prong approach - sell advertising, sell affiliate products, and sell your own products for greater income potential.
What Are AdSense Sites?
These AdSense sites are usually websites you set up with keyword-rich content and strategically placed AdSense ads. You can never encourage people to click on the Adsense links as that will get you booted out of the program, but when people do click on the links you earn money for each click. They don't need to buy a product, but the originator of the AdSense ad hopes they will; you get paid for the click.
Usually, the site is set up and generally not manually maintained, meaning you don't keep adding content. There are options to keep content coming with the advent of plugins that pull in news feeds, EzineArticles, eBay auctions, Amazon product reviews and so on. Each of these serve a different goal and should be reviewed as to their efficiency and reliability, and whether they are legitimate.
Aren't AdSense Sites Dodgy?
Many times sites made for AdSense get a bad name because unethical marketers use content they've "scraped" illegally from other legitimate sites. Do it the right way, add content you have legal permission to use, and you won't have to worry about your sites getting banned or sandboxed by Google.
Your income on one or two sites probably won't be suffcient to pay the bills so you consider craeting a lot of sites. You also need a lot of is traffic. If people don't come to check out your website, they won't be able to click on your AdSense links.
Selling Ads Directly
Another option you can use to make money from ads on a website is by offering ad placement on your site for a fee. However, before you do this, build up your site with great, quality content and employ article marketing and backlinking to help build up your traffic. The more traffic you get, the more you can charge for an ad. If you have high traffic numbers, the company placing the ad will be willing to pay more for it because high exposure to viewers and possible sales.
Check out some of the bigger blogs and see how and what they offer in the way of advertising. If adding advertisement to your site doesn't seem like enough income for you, try a three-prong approach - sell advertising, sell affiliate products, and sell your own products for greater income potential.