Do you have a website? Is it awesome? Is it making you money?
Wait – no? Good heavens, why not? If you’ve got a website worth even as much as beans (which are worth notoriously little,) you could very well have a website worth a little money! Fasten your seat belts, folk – because you’re about to get a crash course on how to make money with Google!
Lesson one: don’t get yourself scammed. I hate to think I have to include this section, but please – don’t be stupid with your money. If someone claiming to be Google tells you they need five hundred dollars or your full credit card information before they’ll allow you even to look at their crazy scheme, please throw a virtual tomato at them and move along. You’re smarter than that. They don’t deserve you.
Lesson two: If you want to make money online, people have to know you’re online. If your site is designed to make money – a business or sales-oriented web page, for instance – then you’re going to have to get people to that site before they’ll spend any money on you. Google’s AdWords program can help you there. By matching your site’s content to relevant search queries, Google can put ads out on search result pages that will bring interested people to your website. These ads are usually pay-per-click – which means that every time someone clicks an ad, you owe Google a fee. It also means that someone just visited your site, though, so unless you’re selling some weird, useless junk, it’s probably worth it.
Lesson three: If you’re not selling something, sell something for someone else! AdSense is Google’s program for turning your site into a virtual marketplace – posting relevant ads onto your website, so that you’ll get a cut of the fee paid to Google. Basically, you get to play pretend, and you can pretend to be a billboard. Stop pretending – it’s not that interesting (but it does earn some money!)
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