AdSense Tips

In my previous post I asked everyone if they made money blogging, and not surprisingly, majority of commenters replied in the negative.

The reason why many, or should I say most, people don’t make money from blogs is that most of the easy ways to effectively make money from blogging are considered somewhat bad, unethical, user-unfriendly and so on.

So bloggers who have worked hard to build a community around their blog, stay well away from money making practices that may harm their reputation and put off their readers. They happily choose the community over money.

I, too, fall in the same category of bloggers. I could run AdSense and plethora of other types of ads to monetize my blog, but I consider this to be bad from user experience perspective as well as an ineffective monetization strategy.

Ineffective? Sure, in my case, my readership consists mainly of bloggers and web masters who are pretty tech savvy and immune to advertisements. They either ignore the ads, or are turned off by them because they come here for information, not to see ads, especially when they can tell an ad from the real content.

So if you are one of the bloggers who don’t make money blogging, here’s good news for you. You don’t have to monetize your current established blog with evil ads to make money. There are other ways to make money from blogs. Some of these are really tough ones. For example, creating a product and selling it on your blog, or using your blog to promote your expertise a.k.a services.

The good news is that you don’t have to use any of the above methods to make money from blogs. Instead, take a look at the following ways.

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I was messing with my AdSense account settings and just discovered that AdSense has finally added a third payment option! Now you can get your payments through Western Union Quick Cash.

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After adding “Allowed Sites” feature a few days ago and rolling it back, Google AdSense has put the “Allowed sites” feature back under AdSense Setup tab. With Allowed Sites feature, you can specify which sites should be allowed to display AdSense ads with your publisher ID.

If you have been to webmaster forums, you have probably seen those threads where an AdSense publisher is calling for help because he got his AdSense account banned for no apparent reason. Google’s wrath sure brings tears to even the toughest of webmasters.

Excessive clicking and displaying of ads on suspicious sites is generally what gets many publishers banned. So, Google has decided to take a step towards putting a stop to malicious webmasters getting legitimate publishers in trouble.

To allow only your sites to display AdSense ads, log in to your AdSense account, click on AdSense setup tab, select the ‘Only allow certain sites to display ads for my account‘ option, and enter the allowed domain URLs without WWW. Remember, if you forget to include certain URL that you want to allow, it will still display the ads, but impressions and clicks won’t make you a dime. So, be careful.