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Almost every time you read an article on how to make money from a blog, one of the first word your eye will catch is the word ‘AdSense’.

Most authors almost immediately tell you just to sign up with Google AdSense, copy and paste some code to your site and start making money.

What they do not tell you is, that it is no way that easy.

First of all; no matter how many different kind of advertises, no matter how good they might be, they will make you no money if you can’t get visitors to your site. Without traffic – No money! From AdSense or any other kind of advertising.

And then AdSense:
Do not believe for one second, that you can just set up a quick blog with one of the default themes on blogger.com or the like. Not even if set up with your own domain name on a cheap hosting account.

Google is a very serious company, making tons of money from advertising. To be able to do so, they have to protect their paying customers from their advertises being displayed (and clicked on) at completely useless places such as a meaningless blog, or on what is really just a sales letter.

Don’t get me wrong though: There is nothing wrong with a free blog or with a cheap hosting. But do not try to apply for AdSense and expect to be accepted, without doing your homework first, or it will be rejected for sure.

To get accepted into Goggles AdSense program:

1. Do not apply with a site or blog that is still under construction.
2. Do not set up just a pure sells site.
3. Offer the readers some valuable content.
4. Set up a presentable site, with not too many flashing banners, animations, pictures, etc.
5. Avoid pop-ups. If you want to make use of pop-up, limit it to a single or two.
6. Be certain that your site has no broken links.
7. Create about 10 – 15 pages before applying.

10 – 15 pages may sound a lot, but if you are out of ideas what to write, you might be able to pick up some inspiration visiting some article directories.

Once you have a nice looking blog or site, with plenty of interesting content, and you are sure there’s no broken links, then you can apply for a web publisher account with Google and hope to get approved.

If you are in need of ideas of content to your website or blog, you can try at places like:

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://buildinganonline.biz/presents/affsphere
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.submityourarticle.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com

If you want more options, just make a Yahoo or Google search on ‘article directories’ and plenty possibilities will show up.

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Blogging seems to become more popular day by day, as people discover it to be fun writing about their life or interests, and being able to share the information with others from all over the world by posting it to a blog.

What is not obvious to many, is the potential to earn some money at the same time. A real easy way to do so is to integrate advertises delivered by search engines as Google(TM) or Yahoo(TM).

Google’s advertising program is named AdSense and is a contextual system, that makes you able to position ads on your website or blog which is relevant to the content of your own content.

This short article is on how to integrate Google’s advertising to a blog hosted by Blogger.

Assuming you have already signed up for an AdSense account integrating AdSense to your blog hosted by blogger.com is really simple.

Log in to your blogger.com account.

At the blog you want the advertising to show on.

• Click on “layout”.
• Click on “Page Elements” (if not already there).

Now you should see a page with the template of your blog. You are able to integrate AdSense to your sidebar, your blog post area, and to the footer.

To ad AdSense to your sidebar click on “Ad a Gadget” and a new window will pop up. From the new window, find and choose AdSense on the list and click the image.

An AdSense block is now present in your sidebar. You can move it to a position of your choice by click and hold right mouse button. Do make some tests to make the adverting block show at a nice position.

Follow the same procedure if you like AdSense to appear in your footer.

The blog post area is a little more complicated, but the build in guide is really self explanationary. Just be aware that there is a limit to the appearances of the same type of a AdSense advertise.

Make sure that you read and understand the terms of service for use of AdSense, to be sure that you do comply to the rules.

Good luck earning from your blog.

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