Are you looking for information on Google Adsense, asking yourself what is Adsense? We will talk about what it is, how it works, if you can make money with it and if you should combine Adsense with other ways of monetizing your website.

What Is Adsense?

Adsense is Google`s own ad program. You can display ads on your own website, if certain requirements are met you get paid. Ads can be in the form of text ads, banners, or videos.

How Does It Work?

This is how the Google Ad program work.

1. You sign up with a Adsense account.

2. When approved you create your ads in the account.

3. After creating the ad there will be a code that you copy and paste into your websites.

4. Ads will then show on your site.

5. When someone click on your ad, you will earn revenue.

There are many different sizes of ad units, you can also customize the colors and look. You are allowed 3 ad units per post or page. There are also better areas of your site than others to place your ad units, this is a whole separate article though, the placement of your ads.

Today if you are a Wordpress user there are many great plugins that can help you display your ads. Instead of copy and past the code into each and every post and page you can use plugins that will do it for you.

Can You Really Make Money With Adsense?

I have been working with the ad program for a while and make pretty good money with some of my sites displaying Adsense ads. So yes, it is possible to make money with it, I have seen it first hand.

Adsense and/or Affiliate Programs?

If you have a website should you display ads and/or affiliate offers, there are no correct answer on that questions. I have plain ad sites but I also have sites where I combine ads and affiliate offers. To know what works on your site you will need to test things out for yourself.

When I do combine affiliate offers with ads I try to keep it separate, the posts and pages where I recommend a product I stay away from the ads. The posts and pages that are more informative I display ads on.

Every niche and website are different and testing is the way to know what works for your site. Hope this helped you get a basic understanding of what Adsense is and how it can benefit you.