Making sense of AdSense

Now that my Adsense account has been approved, my next task is to prepare this Blog to accept ads from Adsense. This could easily be done by adding page elements (AdSense ads is one of the elements) at the Layout options. There are two types of AdSense ads, ad units and link units of various sizes so you have to experiment to see what is the best arrangement. Of course you can get a lot of information from the Adsense site. Here's one important point I discovered (actually buried somewhere in one of the Adsense pages) - you can only put a maximum of 3 ad units and 3 link units in any one page.

Another point is that you can block competitive ads from appearing in your page, see details here. You do not want another PIPS member advertising in your page and take away you potential customer.

Remember I mentioned I need to add the bells and whistles to my site to make it different from the other thousands and thousands of similar PIPS sites? Stone Evans recommends the web updating service for PIPS sites by Suzanne Morrison (don't worry, not an affiliate link but I would have joined if she offers one!) Come to think of it, if every PIPS owner gets Suzanne to update their web site, are we not back to square one with again thousands of similar updated sites? Better not imagine this. Anyway, there are a lot of useful information in her website and is worth visiting even if you do not want to update your site. (Hey Suzanne if you are reading, free ad for you; hope you'll return the favour!)

So this sets me back $49.95 but I think it is worth it. What I like is she throws in an e-book on how to update the PIPS site yourself in future and another one on blogging. One of the new page in my website will be one for Maximum Paid Survey where you'll get paid for doing surveys. See, this is one of those "no sales business" that you can get started in making money online without having a website. Or you can also become an affiliate just like me here.

Talking of being an affiliate, I think I must stop joining new ones since I can hardly keep up with all the e-mails and getting started guides from those that I have joined. But then you keep seeing new sales pitch wherever you click and all are so tempting and hey, you've got nothing to lose by joining as most of them are free. Seriously, I must now focus on those that I have joined and keep away from new ones however attractive it may look. I promise.

Ronald Kwok
http://cbpirate.com/s/cbp/ronaldkwok