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Is Google Adsense Any Good? Let Me Be Honest.
Many people who want to earn money with the blogs and websites are wondering, “Is Google Adsense any good?” or “Is Google Adsense worth it?”
Today I’m going to give you an answer to those questions and tell what one online millionaire talks about the subject.
How Does Google Adsense Work?
1.You have a website
2.You put the Google Ads on your website
3.You get paid some pennies/cents when the visitor clicks the ad on your website.
(4.The visitor ends up to the advertiser’s website)
So the process is quite simple. Notice that you don’t get paid for everyone who sees the ads but for everyone who clicks the ad.
Then you can see your revenue and statistic from Google Adsense.
Is Google Adsense Easy Money?
No. In the beginning of my online marketing career, I thought that it would be easy to earn some little cash just to put some Google ads on my site. I was wrong.
I had a blog with about 1,000/monthly visitors (which is not very much but still something). I activated Google ads on my site just to see how well it works. Google ads were on my site for almost two months and guess how much I earned.
Nothing. $0!
The moral of the story is that if you are looking for a quick cash, Google Adsense is not the best. You will need a lot of traffic to your website before you can start earning any decent money with Google Adsense.
#1 Google Adsense Tip!
Do you know Pat Flynn? He is a very successful online entrepreneur and he is a real expert in online marketing. His #1 Google Adsense Tip is, “Don’t use Google Adsense!”
You may think, “Why not to use it? Would it be a great way to earn little extra income?”
Look at the image below (click the image to make it large).
Don’t let Google take the money that belongs to you.
As we learned before you get paid when someone clicks on the ad and ends up on the advertiser’s website.
But the problem is that Google is taking some money in between. Let’s say that the advertiser pays $0,20 every time when someone clicks the ad. $0,10 goes to Google and $0,10 goes to you. But what if you could get the whole $0,20? (numbers are just for the example)
What if you could contact the advertiser and say that he can place his ad to your website without Google?
You could easily boost your income because you don’t have the pay Google anymore! The advertiser and you are happy. Win-win.
Don’t be afraid to contact the advertiser straight because he will very probably be happy if someone is willing to advertise his products.
Do People Like Random Ads?
The reality is that we have become quite “immune” to the ads on the Internet. People don’t click them too much.
Google ads can work sometimes but actually more targeted ads are better. When you activate Google ads on your website, you can’t fully control what people see. But when you contact the advertiser straight you can decide what kind of ads you want to show.
My suggestion for you is to put ads that are very relevant to your niche. If your niche is “women’s kettlebell training” put the kettlebell ads.
If your niche is about “how to play piano”, put ads of the piano courses.
A Better Way – Affiliate Marketing
With Google ads, you can only earn pennies per ad but with affiliate marketing, you can earn $100, $200 or $1,400 with one single ad.
In affiliate marketing, you get the certain commission of the products that people end up buying.
It’s very powerful way to earn money. Compare earning $0,05 per Google ad vs. $100 of promoting the product you can honestly recommend and you even use yourself.
Thousands of companies have affiliate programs that you can join. Most of the time you just need to fill out the form and to become an affiliate marketer. You don’t even need to think how to market your website for the “advertiser” but you become accepted almost automatically.
Conclusion – Is Google Adsense any good?
Is Google Adsense worth it?
You can earn some money with it. I know people who have earned hundreds of dollars with Google Adsense.
But in my opinion, there are better and more profitable ways to earn money online like affiliate marketing.
In Youtube, Google Adsense is a great resource to earn money but in your own website, you don’t need it.
Just contact the advertiser and you will earn bigger commissions ($1,4000/sale).
Here is Pat Flynn’s video Passive Income Streams 101 where he explains his #1 Google Adsense Tip (starts at 4:14).
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask!
Do you have experiences with Google Adsense? What do you think about it?
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How to Make Money Selling Other People’s Products?
You want to make money online? Yes.
You don’t have own products? No.
Is it possible to make income without own products? Certainly Yes!
Four Simple Steps
1.Choose Your Interest. First step is to decide what you are interested in. Do you like sports, arts, music, programming or dogs. I mean your interest can be literally anything. You don’t need to be an expert. But you certainly need to be interested in that theme. .jpg)
Okay, let’s say that you are interested in music, more specifically playing guitar. Once you have chosen your interest we can move to step two which is
2.Build a Website. Building a website is actually very easy and SIMPLE. The process will take probably 30 seconds. You will have a good-looking website which is the foundation of your online business.
You don’t have to know anything about programming or stuff related.
If your interest is playing guitar, your website will be related to that theme. You will be adding information, reviews and other things to your website. I still want to point out that you don’t need to be an expert but interested in that theme. If you are expert guitar player, that’s wonderful but not necessary in online business.
3.Attract Visitors. Once you have your very own website the next step is to attract visitors to your website. You attract visitors by providing value about your theme.
MORE PEOPLE MEANS MORE OPPORTUNITIES!
If your website is about playing guitar you can for example give tips how to practice. You can write reviews of your favorite guitars or link great guitar tutorials from Youtube.
4.Earn Revenue. Once you have your website and some visitors you can start earning revenue. Most easily this works by promoting other people’s products. You “affiliate” products that are related to your website’s theme.
In internet there are millions of different products that you can affiliate.
In your guitar playing site you can affiliate different guitars, guitar equipment, guitar training courses and others. For example in Amazon you can find 1,233,667 results for “guitar”. You can literally run a guitar business by selling Amazon products only. Once someone buys a product from Amazon, you get a commission. Simple?
Commissions Vary But even 80% is Possible From Some Online Products!
In our example your interest was guitar playing. But your interest can be anything in the world. I can assure you that there are affiliate programs for any theme in internet.
Internet is full of opportunities to earn money selling other people’s products. There are thousands and thousands of programs. Some of them provide you little 5% commission but some programs can provide you even 80% commission.
Let’s say for example that you promote a guitar which costs 500$ and you get 10% commission. That makes 50$ into your pocket. But if the guitar is 5 000$ with 15% commission it means 750$ into your pocket. And these numbers are totally realistic.
Just Remember those Four Simple Steps:
1.Choose Your Interest
2.Build a Website
3.Attract Visitors
4.Earn Revenue
Start Today
You can start the process today. I started my journey in Wealthy Affiliate and I can say from experience that it’s the great place to start making online revenue. In Wealthy Affilliate you will learn all the things and details you need to run a successful online business.
In this article I explained you the four steps, four principles of making money online but if you really want to make online revenue you need to go more into detail.
I just want to underline that all you need is the will to start learning.