This article is really for beginners or for people looking for a new approach to making money with google adsense. If you're like me, you have a lot of interests that won't exactly make you any money. For this reason, I absolutely hate working. I like to be my own boss and have the time to pursue what really makes me happy. While this all sounds dandy, I also like having enough money to live comfortably. Money may not buy happiness, but it sure buys freedom and freedom plays a huge factor in my happiness. If this sounds like you, then you should keep reading. In order to really be able to make money online you need to be a motivated person who is driven to make things happen. You also have to be patient, which I admit isn't one of my strong suits.

Before you delve into what I've written here, I want you to know that this article is about adsense. I am not writing about SEO or backlinks. I will review those quickly for those of you who aren't familiar with them. If you are familiar with these concepts, scroll down to the last few paragraphs which is where I'll teach you something that you don't yet know (probably). If you really are just starting out, start from the beginning and I'll try to give you a decent understanding of what I'm talking about.

First things first, let's talk about adsense. While there are many ways to make money on the Internet, adsense is my favorite because it's easy to use, it's reliable, and if you stick with it long enough you can have a nice and steady stream of income. If you're familiar with adsense, you can skip this paragraph because I'm just going to review some basics for those of you who haven't used adsense before. Adsense is a google program for blog or site owners that allows you to generate income from your blog or site by matches ads to the content on your site and paying you revenue whenever they are clicked on. That's the most basic definition of adsense I can give you but really there's a lot more to it. You can use adsense on any of your sites whether it be a site you own and host by yourself or a site you have on a blog network such as google blogger or wordpress. It's user friendly and I'm going to try to go over the basics here in as few words as possible.

I'm going to assume that since most of you are beginners, not many of you have your own website which you host. This is fine. If you don't have a blog, go over to bloggger.com and create a blog. I'm not going to go through the steps of creating a blog here, since explaining adsense will be complicated enough. So if you don't have a blog yet, go over to blogger and take some time to start a blog. Once you have at least two articles written on your blog (you can do that all right now and it shouldn't take you too long) come back here and continue. Or you can finish reading this article and then get started. For the sake of ease, let's say you're making a blog on how to lose weight. This is a very popular niche and I would suggest you start with something a little less popular, but that's what we'll use for now.

If you're iffy on how to choose a niche, I'll have another article explaining the easiest way to do that in detail.

So now you have your "How to Lose Weight" blog and you have two articles written and published. These articles need to be written with SEO in mind. (search engine optimization) In order to get people to click on your adsense ads, you'll need them to be able to find your site or blog in google search. For example. if someone types into google search "how to lose weight" you want your blog or site to come up on the first page of google. The way you do this is SEO and backlinks. What SEO means is that you need to have your articles written properly. Properly means using your keyword often but not over using it. Properly means writing unique articles that are written well and make sense. The longer the article, the better. You also should use your keywords in your blog URL and in the title of your post. The way google knows which adsense ads to put on your blog is by scanning your page and seeing which words are mentioned the most. Google assumes these are your keywords and puts adsense ads up that have to do with these keywords. It's not a human scanning your pages, it's the "google bot". So even if you know that your page would have an obvious niche if a human were reading it, you need to optimize it for a machine.

So that's SEO. Backlinks are links from other sites pointing back to your site. There are a lot of ways to get these. The easiest and cheapest way is to publish articles on article sites like Ezine Articles and GoArticles or HubPages. Include a link to your site from the articles. You want to keyword anchor link to your site. What that means is the link to your site shouldn't read "go here to find out how to lose weight" or "go to www.thisisabadexampleloseweight.com". It should look like this "If you are wondering how to lose weight, look no further". The link should be from your keywords, the way when someone searches "how to lose weight" google knows that your site is relevant. You want to get as many backlinks as possible. Aside from writing articles, you can ask web owners to link to your site, though they will usually ask for compensation. You can also ask friends to link to you. Another way which can be costly is to join a backlink network such as backlink solutions, linkvanna, or connectcontent. I would recommend connectcontent if you're just starting out because it's the cheapest service and it really works. (BTW that is the way your keyword anchor links should look).It was the first one I signed up for and I still use it. It's extremely easy to use and works on a give and take type of system. You give other people backlinks and they give them to you, so you basically get out what you put in. To find out more visit the site. The owner, RJ, is also really helpful and responsive anytime you need help.

While your setting up your blog and getting backlinks and optimizing your posts, you don't want to put adsense on your blog yet. Google will index you quicker if they think your blog or site is legitimate and not just for making money. I usually add adsense after I'm seeing between 300-400 unique visitors a day. To keep track of how many visitors you get a day, you should go to www.statcounter.com and sign up. It's free and allows you to keep track of who came to your site, how they got there, keywords they used to find it, etc. Another program you should sign up for is the google webmasters tool. This, too, is free and will let you know when your website gets indexed by google and a lot of other vital information.

So now lets say you have a steady stream of unique visitors a day coming to your site and you think you're really to add adsense to your site. Blogger makes it easy to add adsense, they have a gadget for that which you can find under the layout option in your blogger dashboard. So go ahead and add adsense to your blog. What I've written so far is a basic skeleton of how to make money using google adsense. I've haven't gone into too much detail because the information I have already give you is sort of a review and it's not what I really want to teach you about. Those were tips on getting your blog up and running but not tips on how to actually make money using adsense. What you really want to know about adsense, though, is what is going to set your site apart from the other millions of sites that have adsense on them.

That is exactly what I'm going to share with you here. My method for making money using adsense differs from most other bloggers and site owners, because unlike most other bloggers I have absolutely no interest in people reading what I'm writing. Sometimes what I write is actually really useful information and sometimes I just right puff pieces chock full of keywords. The bottom line is, though, it wouldn't matter to me if I found out that no one has actually read a word of what I've written. Ever. The one basic rule I follow is this: I want people to leave my blog/site. I want people to click on the adsense ads. If I give excellent information on my blog and it looks spectacular and easy to read and magnetic, no one is going to click on the adsense ads. It's not that I give false information on my blogs, I don't. The main way I do this is by keeping my blog unstyled and ugly. White background, black writing, and blue links. I want people to come to my blog but I don't want them to stay there. And that, my friends, is my secret. I've been using adsense for years, but I only implemented these ideas over the past year or so. Since then I have seen a huge rise in my adsense income.

A lot of people who begin blogging want to be celebrities. Maybe you will be, I don't know, but most of you won't be. If you actually want to make money by blogging, it is wise to spend your time getting backlinks and working on SEO rather then writing meaningful and brilliant articles and making your blog look nice.

One more thing. You want most of the traffic coming to your blog coming from search engines, specifically google. If you have traffic coming from other blogs or any social traffic, that's better than no traffic but google knows where your traffic is coming from you will get paid more for adsense clicks that originated from search engine traffic.

I think that's enough information for now. I'll write a few more articles to clear up anything I left out, included on how to find a good niche, especially for beginners. I hope that this adsense information helps some of you make some money. There's a lot to adsense and this is really only the tip of the iceberg so if you like what you've read here, come back soon and I'll tell you a few more tricks I have up my sleeves.

If there's anything specific that I didn't cover that you'd like to know about, leave me a comment and I'll try to include it on my next post.

Until then, good luck making money with google adsense!