I'll go through them alphabetically - the good as well as the bad.
Today I'll therefore start with the one which most readers will know: AdSense.
I've read some blogs where they have been quite snooty - for want of a better word - about AdSense. Not sure why. I can only go on my experience and I've found that this works well on my type of blogs.The figure on the right is what Google 'owes' me at today's date. This money will be paid direct into my bank account at the beginning of next month. All of my previous payments for Adsense were paid exactly on time, so I'm confident this $300+ will be as well.
The truth is though that to make decent money with AdSense you need decent traffic. Everything revolves around how many clicks you are likely to get on the ads shown on your blog.
There are a couple of snags. First, their payout amount is quite high at $100 minimum. This will take a while to reach on low traffic blogs. The good news is though that the money rolls over from month to month and they will definitely pay you - unless, that is, you break or contravene any of their Terms and Conditions.
This is actually the second snag. Make sure you follow the rules and are also fully aware of their Programme Policies. For example, a few weeks after I first started with AdSense I received a 'warning' from them about using hit exchanges. At the time I didn't realise that this was a no-no as far as they were concerned.
The ads themselves work well if you have a definite niche, or subject matter, as they are related to your blog's content. If you tend to write about many things the ads can sometimes become a little obscure.
Where you place the ads on your blog page can make a difference to the number of clicks produced. There is good advice from Google on their Help Centre under Where should I place Google ads on my pages?. I get the best response from top right.
Their Google Help Centre covers most subjects which AdSense newbies might want to know.
Out of interest I started using Google AdSense as soon as I had done my first post, on my first blog. After two weeks I had made the grand total of 87c! And my total earnings for everything (AdSense, Amazon, YouGov) was a massive $4.48. At the time I wrote: 'Not exactly a fortune. But every journey has to have a small first step - well that's what I'm telling myself!' And this proved to be the case.
If you haven't made that first step as yet - do it! All it will cost you is some time.
Good luck,
Mike.
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