What Is Google Adsense?

Many people have heard of Google adsense but really have no idea what it is. To be honest, I started using Google adsense before I even had an idea of what it's used for. I wanted to write this article so I can understand what Adsense is all about. I feel that if you understand a certain topic better you can utilize it more. Hopefully you will learn something as well.

Adsense was created by Google in 2003. It is a way to get advertisers and website owners to work together. Advertisers want to make money or promote the products they have any way they can. The Internet is the one place in our history that can get in contact with a huge number of people in the shortest amount of time possible. Google realized this and wanted to find a way to help companies advertise themselves (and earn Google a little extra money along the way). Over 1 billion people use the Internet in some way as of September 30, 2009. If companies can get even a fraction of that many people to visit there websites they can earn a great deal of profit.

Advertisers are willing to pay a great amount of money to get there ads on the web. They would go to Google Adsense and sign-up for an account to start advertising there website, product, online store, etc. This is where the website owners come in. Many people on the Internet make websites for fun or for a certain goal; whether it is to get their voice heard, make money or because they were bored at home and had an Internet connection. For example, if a person wanted to make a blog about acting in movies; they would set up a blog and then begin to write about all the aspects of acting in a film. They could write about getting an agent, acting classes, acting courses, acting books, going to auditions, going to New York or Los Angeles, etc. Then they would here about Google Adsense and sign-up. They would then place adsense ads on their blog to start making money with the blog.
The best thing about that is, because that person made a blog about something very specific (or niche) like acting in movies all of the Adsense ads that will show up will be related to acting. So people who already read his blog come visit for a specific reason, acting in movies. They will then see an ad that is about how to act in movies and would click on it. That would earn him money every time someone clicks on an ad on their acting blog.

Once the website owners earn a certain amount of money for clicks they will receive their money at the end of the month. As of now, the minimum payout you can receive from Google Adsense is $100.00. That may seem like a lot but there are a great number of people earning more then that each month. Some successful Adsense publishers make over $10,000 even $30,000 EACH month. It took them a great amount of smart working skills but they did accomplish the task.

Google adsense is a great place for advertisers and publishers. Advertisers have a way to get the products and services out into the Internet and anyone who has a web page can make money online if they are smart. I say you have to be smart because you can work as hard as you want but if you are not doing it right you may get back pennies or nothing.