Joining Google Adsense is the simplest way to make money online. Is it? No doubt, Google pays you when visitors to your site click on an Adsense ad. But do people really click on Adsense ads. For each 100 visitors, you may not get more than 20-30 clicks.
Moreover, the earnings per click will be like a few cents. In order to make a few thousand dollars each month using Google Adsense, you need to develop a lot of traffic to your site. Most of that traffic will get wasted.
Here lies the trick. You need a lot of traffic to succeed with Google Adsense. Building traffic is not an simple game. In my opinion, traffic is the most vital thing a new comer to the world of internet marketing should learn.
So you are not able to get enough traffic? You will come across sites that will tell you in order to make money with Adsense you need to focus on niches where earnings per click are excellent. What are those niches? These are niches like Credit Repair, Mortgage and Student Loan. Advertisers like to pay up to $10-20 per click on Google Adwords.
But hey, they are paying this much money for a click on the Adwords Search Network. Many will pay only $2-5 while advertising on the Content Network. Adsense is in nutshell the content network.
Many advertisers know this fact that traffic on the content network is not highly targeted. So they pay less on the content network. Google keeps a excellent percentage of it as its commission. Google never discloses how much.
So how much you get? You only get between $ 0.5-1 for each click. Most of these niches are highly competitive. You wont be able to get excellent traffic. So you wont get many clicks on Adsense Ads.
Dont you reckon you are wasting traffic with Adsense when you can get a much higher payout by showing affiliate links using affiliate programs like Clickbank, Commission Junction etc?
You can even join a CPA Network that can pay you $2-5 for getting a form with two to three fields filled. In some cases, by simply getting a zip code submitted, these networks pay you like $2.
While promoting Adsense, always keep this in mind that Google can all of a sudden terminate your Adsense account for no apparent reason.