Getting started with Adsense -- Starting with blogs.

Alright, just to warm up to the topic, I gotta bring everyone up to date. I've long thought of the internet as being a great source of revenue for those who knew how to tap into it. I didn't, but when I found myself unemployed it seemed like a great time to learn. Somewhere I stumbled across a blog or post concerning AdSense. For those who use it or are interested in it, it seems like its everywhere. Up until that time I was aware of it but had no idea how prevalent it is.

If you don't know, Google's AdSense is a a pay-per-click (ppc) advertising revenue program to monetize your website. The advantage over affiliate programs is you don't have to hunt up what to advertise, the script that you insert into your page analyzes your pages content to automatically display relevant ads.

So after doing a little reading, I decided to test the waters, and started a couple of blogs. One is a comics and pulps fanzine blog. My brother contributes to an APA so the content is actually his. One huge post on a near monthly basis . Since a friend of mine forwards every single joke, chain-letter, etc e-mail she gets I decided to make a humor blog to take advantage of all this content. Incidentally, after making the blog, I haven't gotten any good e-mails from her, so I'll just have to be patient. So I've checked out how to make a blog. Blogger/Blogspot are free, super easy to use, and have the AdSense functionality built in. The drawback is that since they use sub-domains Google doesn't list them in typical web-search results. They utilize a separate search function for blogs. I didn't know this and perhaps you didn't either, hence the reason for making this blog -- to provide updates to my learning curve to help others get a quicker start.

Now that doesn't mean your blogs will never be found using conventional methods, and I'll cover more of that here.

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