Adding Advertising to Your Website with Google AdSense

Any website, no matter how small, can generate revenue. On the Web, one of the primary ways of generating revenue is from advertising; you sell ad space on your site, and whenever a visitor clicks through the ad to the advertiser’s website, you collect a small fee.

The problem with this scenario, of course, is that you’re not in the advertising business; you have no sales force to sell advertising on your site, nor do you have the technology required to place the ads, track click-throughs, and then collect funds due from advertisers. You might be able to generate a bit of revenue, if only you could get the ads placed and managed.

This is where Google AdSense comes in. The AdSense ...

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