Highest paying niches for adsense

Let me start off by saying that it is against Google's TOS to make websites that are made just to display adsense ads. This doesn't mean that you can't use Adsense, it just means that your site has to have some relevant content for it not to violate Google's TOS.

That being said, the highest paying niches are:

• Health related
• Legal related
• Insurance related
• Money related

These four niches are also the four most popular niches and will have much more competition than any other niche. This means that you will have to work 100 times harder to make any sizable income in these niches. So, rather than having a site in one of these niches, you should create a site in a field that is popular, but lacking valuable websites. Better yet, you should create a site or blog about what you know about. If you are a technology buff and can build a computer blindfolded, then I am sure that your expertise will be greatly appreciated. If you know a lot about training horese, then write about it. The only other thing that you should try to do is to write about something that you enjoy. If you hate what you write about, then your articles will be less effective and less entertaining.

Would you rather type 500 articles on insurance or would you rather type 100 articles on 5 subjects that you can't get enough of? I think that the answer is obvious. People don't make money from sites or from blogging by writing what they think people will like, they make their money by doing what they love: informing people and entertaining them in subjects that they enjoy.

Pros and Cons of an adsense based income

Google Adsense provides an income method that can be implemented into almost every website. As with any source of income, there are always pros and cons.

Pros:

• Adsense is easy to use and to implement into websites
• Offers a limitless stream of income
• Is completely free to use
• Has lots of tutorials and tips
• Large user base

Cons:

• Checks can take a long time to arrive
• Accounts are banned for reasons beyond the owners control somtimes
• Income relies solely on the number of visitors to your site
• Beginners may not grasp how the system works

As you can see, the pros out-weigh the cons by far, but the cons should still be taken into consideration. Adsense has proven to be one of the most successful and most popular ways of making money online. Adsense gains more and more users each day due to its ease of use and income potential.

Different types of affiliate marketing

There are three main types of affiliate marketing. These three types are Pay Per Click (PPC), Pay Per Sale, and Pay Per Lead.

1. Pay per click affiliate marketing is perhaps the easiest type of affiliate marketing to get started in. Google Adsense is a prime example of affiliate marketing and is a very good way to make money online. Basically, you get paid every time someone clicks on an advertisement on your website. The earning potential is limitless, but depends on how much web traffic that you receive. A site with more traffic and well placed ads can make hundreds or thousands of dollars everyday. In order to make that kind of money, you would need to have a very large and popular website.

2. Pay Per Sale affiliate marketing is usually structured on a commission style pay. You earn a percentage of each sale that you generate for a company. The easiest programs to utilize this type of affiliate marketing with are Amazon Affiliates and Clickbank. You can review or recommend products from these sites and then post your affiliate link. If someone clicks the link and buys the product, then you are paid a percentage of that sale. You may decide to pay for advertising if you want to focus solely on this type of affiliate marketing. You can utilize Google Adwords to attract targeted traffic to these reviews or recommendations to get some sales. I have successfully started a number of websites that have just affiliate links with reviews of the products and have made money from it too. Adwords will be discussed in more detail in another article.

3. Pay Per Lead affiliate marketing involves getting people to sign up for a free trial of a service or just simply signing up on a website. You may get $0.01 to $10 or more for each lead that you may generate for a company. These types of programs are more on a company by company basis rather than having a program like clickbank. However, there is one program that comes to mind that covers both Pay Per Sale and Pay Per Lead. This program is Commission Junction. Commission Junction or CJ is a great resource for website owners and bloggers who want to promote real, tangible items rather than the informational and digital items on clickbank. CJ allows you to get paid a percentage of each sale that you generate for a company and for generating leads for different companies or services. CJ is definitely something to look into.

This should provide you with a brief but informative idea of what Affiliate Marketing is all about. There is A LOT of money to be made in affiliate marketing. If you haven't done so already, make your own free blogger blog or Google pages site and get started making money.

The basics of Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the biggest earners for site owners and bloggers. You are an affiliate if you promote a product, link to a program/item or even have Google adsense ads on your site.

There are a few main affiliate marketing programs that you can join to make money through your website or blog.

1. Clickbank. Clickbank is a very easy way to make a commission on referred products. Clickbank focuses solely on informational items and digital items such as software. If you have an established site or blog, you could simply put in an affiliate link at the end of a relevant post and get a few sales from doing just that. You can create individual links for every item. The earning potential is endless.

2. Google adsense. Adsense is probably the easiest affiliate marketing program to become a part of. Whenever someone clicks on an Adsense ad on your website, you get paid. If you have 500 unique visitors every day and get 25 people to click on the ads, you could get anywhere between 25 cents and $50, depending on your subjet area and content.

3. Amazon Affiliates. You can earn money by referring people to amazon.com to buy certain products. Most people will trust amazon.com and are more likely to buy from them than anywhere else. You earn a commission on each item that is sold through your links, much like clickbank.

Optimizing Google Adsense to make more money

Google has enabled virtually anyone to make money with adsense. However, just because something is available to you doesn't mean that you will succeed at it. In order to make more money from Adsense, you must optimize your website and your ad placement.

1. You must blend your ads into your website or blog. By blending, I mean making the ads appear as regular links rather than advertisements. People hate being advertised to, so use the same colors of your website in the ads to make the appear as subtle background links.

2. You mustn't overwhelm the page with advertisements. This doesn't mean that you have too many ads, it means that the ads are very visually loud or are too big. Google only permits you to have 3 advertisements per page and they have a system that ensures that only 3 are shown at any given time. Try to blend the ad colors in with the rest of the site and do not have any protruding ads. Always keep the ads small and clean to get the most clicks.

3. The final thing that you must do to make more money is to have TONS of RICH content. Content is the key to getting traffic to your site and is also the key to getting people be interested in the advertisements. Have a goal of writing 1 to 2 large posts per day. Place the advertisements in or below each post in order to get the clicks. Also try to use the MED rectangle, as you may get more clicks with it compared to another format.

3. Place your advertisements in areas that will are the target of your reader's eye. Don't put ads away from the content. The person is visiting the site to read the content, so place the advertisements near the content. Link sidebars are also a great place to put the ads.

Getting started with Adsense

Google Adsense is a great way to make money online. It is one of the most popular ways and will continue to be that way for a long time. Adsense is a very simple idea: You make money when someone clicks on an advertisement on your website. The advertisements come from Google Adwords, an advertising solution for business owners via Google.

You can start up a free blog with blogger. Blogger allows you to create a completely free website on almost any topic. Blogger is actually a part of Google, so it allows for easy integration of adsense ads into your website. Blogger is the easiest site creation tool, has a lot of tutorials and is very user friendly. After you get your blog started, it is strongly advised that you have at least 10 or 15 long posts before you consider putting adsense on the site.

Setting up a Google Adsense account is a very simple process and can be completed in just a few minutes. After your account is created, in most cases, Google will want to review the website that you are wanting to put Adsense onto, so that they can be sure that you are abiding by the TOS (terms of service).

After your account is set up and your website is approved, there is really nothing else that you need to do to make money with adsense except for getting web traffic to the site. Getting traffic is another article though.