Why is Adsense such an important income generation tool for webmasters and bloggers? First, let us look at how Adsense works. An advertiser buys a banner or text advertisement and pays only when a potential customer clicks through to the advertiser’s site. The advertising rate is determined by market forces – the sum paid by advertisers and to webmasters varies according to the value of the keywords.

A website publisher or webmaster signs up with the advertising agent and pastes a javascript code on to their web page. Whenever the page is viewed it will display advertisements from the Adsense program, which are targeted by the spiders to relate to the web page content. For example, if the site is about parrots you can see ads for parrot training lessons (that is not a joke: check it out). There is no shortage of e-commerce advertisers willing to buy advertising, as the targeting possibilities increase the effectiveness of their advertising spend.

Every time a visitor clicks through on an advertisement, the website owner receives a share of the advertising revenue. This is a win-win for webmasters – no need to find advertisers, no rates to negotiate, no click monitoring, no invoices to issue.

Adsense and similar advertising packages are good for websites promoting affiliate programs and MLM as they offer the chance to customise the appearance of advertisements to suit the website’s needs. Site owners can choose from different advertising formats, selecting prominent boxed displays or lineage ads that look more like editorial content according to the tastes of their niche market.

These options should improve click through rates from visitors who may or may not be aware of what they are clicking on. This way the advertisers gain improved exposure for their advertising and the website makes money. Webmasters can access reports that show details of page impressions, clicks and click-through rates. Webmasters and publishers can now track the success of specific ad formats and spot trends.

The most successful formats can then continue, and less popular formats can be scrapped. With very little practice these ad tracking tools are easy to use. Advertising can be placed on a site in minutes, the site owner chooses whether to allow banners or text ads, and can block advertising from their main competitors.

Adsense is all about targeted content – if your content is rich in keywords it will attract quality ads from the search engines. There is a lot of hype at present about the income possibilities, and lots of junk sites are attempting to attract Adsense income using pure spider food. But the basic requirement has not changed: content is the most important factor, and the search engines can spot the difference. The smart webmaster can produce copy that satisfies the niche website’s audience and provides quality spider food as part of intelligent content.

Anyone working from home with an affiliate program and home based website, especially network marketing, will know there are not enough hours in the day for everything you need to do. If someone else is willing to produce and rotate the content, collect the money and pay your share to your bank every month, you have more time to produce good keyword content and drive traffic to your niche website.

Adrienne Davis runs Brilliant4Biz and has extensive experience in marketing, business start up, and eBook publishing. She publishes a regular FREE Ezine, available at the website. Free ebook or software every month. See which ideas work and avoid Internet scams.

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