Our First Affiliate

Well, we have begun. Today we have become an affiliate of Adsense. Adsense is Google's advertising affiliate program. You basically go to Adsense on Google and sign up. They will review your request and then most likely, as long as you do not violate their rules such as have a porno site, you should get accepted into their program.

What you then do, especially if you have a blog, is to copy and paste some code in which Adsense will provide you with, onto your blog or web page. You get paid when people click on those ads. The people do not have to buy anything. All they have to do is click on the ad and you get paid.

Now of course you will not get paid much on most ads especially if you have a low traffic site. But you can earn from .01 Cents per click (also called PPC or Pay Per Click) up to $10 or more per click.

Obviously certain niches will allow you to earn more per click. But you will not have a choice, in most cases, of what ads Google puts on your blog or page. Google has a system in which they have a "robot" that reviews your site to determine its content and key words then it picks the ads that closely match or compliment the content on your site. This way the people who visit your site will be more likely to click on the ads that are displayed.

This is great because you don't have to do anything. You just past some code that Google provides for you, onto your site and Google does all the rest. You can also get all kinds of reports from Google as it pertains to your site and its advertising on your Adsense account pages.

Google is obviously not the only PPC advertising program out there but it is the biggest. And of course you will not make tons of cash off of one blog or page with Adsense no matter what you might have read from some of the gurus out there. They make tons of cash by having a lot of blogs and pages and diversifying with other affiliate programs besides Adsense by Google.

Some other simple affiliate ad programs are run by MSN and Yahoo. There are others as well. I will discuss the others next time. At this point, if you have not done so, head over to Google Adsense and sign up for an account.