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First steps with Google AdSense

June 23rd, 2005 at 3:44 pm

Probably you already noticed that I recently made my first steps in the game of making money online. I signed up with Google’s AdSense program which is perhaps the fastest and easiest way to generate revenue from a website.

What is AdSense?

If you would like to see examples of AdSense ads in action, look at the top of this website or at the end of each article (before navigation).

Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers to display Google AdWords ads on their website’s content pages and earn money. It’s also a way for website publishers to provide Google web and site search to their visitors.

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How to make money from your website

June 17th, 2005 at 3:18 pm

No matter what your website is about you probably wouldn’t mind if it made you some money. You don’t have your own product to sell? No problem, you have many other options for making some extra money with your website. All you have to do is to fill your empty space with a few ads and attract a decent amount of visitors.

Advertising

If you can’t find your own advertising there are plenty of good programs out there which will put ads on your website. Of course you do give up a cut of the revenue earned to them. Most of them are very easy to setup and use. Programs like Google Adsense (already running here), Fastclick, Blog ads will serve your website with banner or text ads.

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How rich are you

June 13th, 2005 at 12:40 pm

Have you ever asked yourself how rich are you? How do you compete with other people on the planet? Where is you rank in the entire earth’s population? Here’s your chance to find out.

Visit Global rich list, enter your annual income into the box and hit ‘show me the money’ button.

When I saw my results I was amazed by the numbers. Why? Figure it out yourself:

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Basic ingredients before you start

June 10th, 2005 at 2:19 pm

This in not a recipe, it’s just a very simple question. What basic ingredients do you need, before you can start making money with your website or your blog? If you already know the answer, don’t laugh.

Website or a blog

Yes, you need a website or a blog if you wish to make money online. It’s up to you to decide what kind of website you want to set up.

Web hosting

There are a number of options that won’t cost you a thing but you might consider to spend some extra money and have your own web hosting plan. I recommend Dreamhost.

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