Affiliate Marketing Tutorials: Monetize Your Site with Google AdSense

While Google provides some affiliate marketing tutorials right on their AdSense site, there are still more great things to learn about this remarkably easy way to make money online.

AdSense makes it simple to get started since you don’t have to know a thing about HTML or any programming language; you just cut and paste code into the body of your webpage. The basic tutorial will give you the step-by-step details to follow in how to select ad size and styles, including videos, and they will even show you how you can ban certain URLs (say, from your competitor sites) from appearing in ads on your affiliate marketing site.

Once the code is on your webpage, Google selects and displays ads which best reflect the content of your page.

Making Your Site a Cash Machine

Like affiliate marketing partner links (see our tutorial on joining partnerships and networks), AdSense is a cash generator. On your website or blog, you are writing about subjects you know and AdSense displays ads that are related to your site's content.

But, unlike affiliate marketing, your AdSense-enhanced site doesn’t send your reader to a merchant’s site; instead, the advertisers running AdSense ads on your site will be luring your readers away from you, enticing them to follow links to their sites to buy the product or service from them. If the link is clicked on, you will earn a small fee. AdSense pays you per click when a customer clicks on the ad even if they do not make a purchase at the visited site.

If you have a high traffic site, AdSense can result in a lot of clicks which means a nice monthly check from Google. (Take the time to read over some affiliate marketing tutorials to learn how to target keywords on your site to bring in high targeted traffic.)

You Can Optimize Your Site for AdSense

You may opt to forgo putting network ads on your site and use AdSense alone. It’s a strategy that works well in many cases proving there can be a unique marriage of a well-formed website and Google’s AdSense. For that we recommend you take a look at one of the best affiliate marketing tutorials we’ve seen, a program called Adsense and SiteBuildIt.

This is probably the best way a novice marketing publisher can get involved quickly in learning the business and making some revenue at the same time. Even veteran affiliate marketers who have multiple streams of income still include AdSense on their sites and continue to make money from it. SiteBuildIt offers tutorials and unique features to help you add content to your site and maximize the profit potential by attracting the right type of traffic for your niche.

Easy, Passive Income Year-Round

Elsewhere on this site we talk about the need to create multiple income streams which is what the other affiliates in this business are already doing. As any of the affiliate marketing tutorials will point out, AdSense can be effectively used on sites to generate income in addition to using ad hosting networks and affiliate networks. But even if you choose not to run AdSense default ads, the AdSense for Search option is also available so you can offer a search function to your site's visitors.

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