7 Comments on “What is the concept behind google adsense? How do people make money?”

1. Thanos P
   October 8th, 2007 at 10:04 pm

   i have heard a lot too.. but i think the most are lies..
   you can make money with adsense only if you have thousands real visitors in your website.. for each visitor that clicks on a adsense banner google gives you some cents.

2. backburner001
   October 10th, 2007 at 2:40 am

   You place Google ads on your website and get paid every time someone clicks on the advertisement. Google crawls your website and targets the advertising in their ads to the audience of your site visitors.

3. hungry hippo
   October 10th, 2007 at 11:21 am

   AdSense is an ad serving program run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image and, more recently, video advertisements on their sites. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-thousand-impressions basis. Google is also currently beta-testing a cost-per-action based service.

   Each time a visitor visits a page with an AdSense tag, a piece of JavaScript writes an iframe tag, whose “src” attribute includes the URL of the page.

   For contextual advertisements, Google’s servers use a cache of the page for the URL or the keywords in the URL itself to determine a set of high-value keywords. (Some of the details are described in the AdSense patent). If keywords have been cached already, ads are served for those keywords based on the AdWords bidding system.

   For Site targeted ads, advertiser can choose the page or sites he wants to display ads on and pays on a CPM basis (cost per thousand impressions)

   For referrals Google manage the subscriptions on a long term, to add money when the visitors either download the product of subscribe, that depend upon the sort of product.

   For search, advertisements are added to the list of results and clicks on them make money.

4. imisidro
   October 12th, 2007 at 8:49 pm

   Adsense is a way to monetize and earn money from your site by putting Google ads from their advertising network Adwords. It has been around since June 2003 and Adsense has allowed many website owners to earn from their sites. I highly recommend going through the Adsense Quick Tour to learn more about the program

   You apply and once you get approved, you can put in the Adsense code in your site. Here are the instructions on how to add Adsense codes on your site

   You earn through various ways:

   1. Pay per click – this is the common way to earn which is you earn every time a visitor clicks on your ads
   2. Pay per impression – an advertiser can specifically target your site and show ads where you earn via cost per 1,000 impression (e.g. you earn every time someone sees your ad, even though they don’t click on it)
   3. Referral – you can also earn if you refer a visitor to use Adsense or Adwords, download the Google toolbar, etc.

   Some sites do very well with Adsense (even in the millions of dollars a year) while many more sites do extremely poorly with the program (can’t even earn $10 a month). One of the misconception people have about Adsense is they simply slap it in their websites and it will automatically earn them big money — which is not true as evidenced by the many disgruntled webmasters

   Your income will depend on:

   - the topic of your site (if you have high paying keywords you stand to earn more)
   - responsiveness of users to ad (are visitors coming to your site with blinders in their eye or do they look at the ads as additional complementary resource)
   - traffic (you earn more with more traffic, even if you have low paying keywords or other metrics)
   - how you implement the ads on your site (some positions and colors work better than others)

5. Bob M
   October 14th, 2007 at 5:33 pm

   There is much money to be made through Google Adsense read more about other programs to increase your websites’ potential.

6. The One
   October 15th, 2007 at 6:54 am

   In my opinion you should not rely on Google Adsense, because this is unpredictable business model and one day you may be penalized for nothing.Reason to this are click fraud, invalid clicks and intentional clicks which one does to another because of competition.

   There are even today people who make money with Adsense, but i am sure they worked it out the hard way and put a lot of efforts into it.

   As to what pertains to creating a lots of blogs/websites and monetizing – i think it is better to create one and start promoting it, than to hire webmasters for each blog/website you created.

7. keninani k
   October 15th, 2007 at 5:28 pm

   please do not be discouraged or misinformed
   i have been making good money with adsense…
   see my check at

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