Sunday, November 30, 2008

Adding Google Adsense ads to your Blog

Ever since I managed to receive the first 5 cents in my Adsense account for a visitor’s click on a Google ad on one of my websites, I can not imagine creating a web page without placing Google Adsense on it.

I have found many uses for Adsense, before all, it is a quick and easy to follow tool to monitor your website and sort of summarize your work in creating a page or writing an article.

A Google Adsense account when used correctly with channels, can give you a summary of how many people have visited your website or at least how many pages of your website have been visited.

This is not exact and does not really take the place of Analitics but I found my self checking my Google Adsense account many times a day while I only check analytics once per day. So that is a good place to have a little summary of your traffic also.

And the good part is that right besides it you can see what you have achieved by bringing the traffic to your site.

Adsense also gives some meaning to the work you do on your website and tells you what it worth is. Well it is true that your work may mean a lot to you but, I guess you know what I mean.

So anyway I went ahead and started including Adsens on my new blog. It was easy just chose to add a Gadget under Layouts, page elements and since I already had a Google account entered two lines of information and that was it. Next time I opened my blog the ads were there
But that was not it. When I logged in to my Adsense account next time, I noticed a pinkish box at the top right telling me that some program is trying to have access to my account and I was invited to click on a link to allow or disallow that.

I followed the link and yes it was there. The Blogger was sitting there on that page asking for permission to access my account. “Ok why not,”. I clicked it ok. “I would always have a chance to change my mind after all.”

And there I was having Google Adsense running on my new blog already.

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