AdSense

Chapter seven. Becoming an AdSense Publisher > Stef: I've been showing ads since a couple of weeks ago. Blog- ger's online help pages show you how to add them to your blog's sidebar. So I did. > Anita: So have you made any money? > Stef: A bit. I've made over $10 so far. It's pretty exciting, actuallyI check my AdSense account several times a day! > Eric: You're doing great, and that's because you already had traffic coming to your site. But we'll save the traffic topic for later. Today we'll split our session into two parts. First, we're going to manage an AdSense account using the AdSense management console. In the second part, we'll use the console to publish ads on Web pages. As it turned out, it was just over a month later when we all met again. This time we met at Claude's house, where his wife told me he'd been quite busy during the past few weeks. This I already knew, because he'd been asking me questions by email. "I've been spending a lot of time working on my site," he said, waving to me as I entered. "I know," I answered, "and I'm not surprised. Building a good site takes time. Did you have any problems joining AdSense?" "No," Claude said. "I waited like you told us until I had at least a dozen good pages of content. The approval came by email within a couple of days." "Great," I said, as I heard Claude's daughters greeting their mother at the door, "and it looks like the others are here now, too." Claude had moved his computer out to the dining room, so we sat down there and waited for the women to join us. "Hey, guys!" Anita said. "Guess what? I got my AdSense approval yesterday." "I got it three weeks ago," Stef said. "I applied as soon as I had moved my old blog entries over to the new blog." "Good," I said, smiling, "it looks like we're all set. Have you all logged onto your AdSense accounts?" They all nodded. "I'm already showing ads, you know," Stef said, seeming quite proud of herself. "You are?" Claude asked. "Since when?" "Since a couple of weeks ago," she explained. "Blogger's online help pages show you how to add them to your blog's sidebar. So I did." "So have you made any money?" Anita asked. "A bit. I've made over $10 so far," she said. "It's pretty exciting, actuallyI check my AdSense account several times a day!" "Some people check it hourly or even more frequently," I said. "It's fun to watch the pennies add up. You're doing great, and that's because you already had traffic coming to your site. Completely new sites won't make as much at the startmaybe not anything for the first while. They have to build their traffic first. But we'll save that topic for later. Today we'll split our session into two parts. First, we're going to manage an AdSense account using the AdSense management console. In the second part, we'll use the console to publish ads on Web pages."