Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Know more about Google Adsense

By Rui Ludovino


In the internet, advertising was done in a way that was very similar to other types of media like television, or actually, more like what you see in a newspaper and that was how it was a few years ago. You'd enter a site, and in some location you'd get to see a banner, which would present and ad for whatever company was paying for ads on your space. But there was one problem with this kind of advertising. It really wasn't exploiting the fact that the ads weren't in some newspaper, but appearing on the screen of a computer online.

You've probably noticed a lot of things like this over the pages you've browsed. You're looking at an on-line shop, looking for a watch but you get a banner advertising something else. While you might, at some later point want to buy a car, right now you're looking for a watch and it would have surely been nice if the banner were advertising a watch, because then you would have probably clicked it. Well that's also what the folks at Google thought of, so they came up with Google AdSense. It's known as a targeted advertising program. What you do (as a web designer / website owner) is, instead of jumping through hoops to get some banner on your site that your visitors won't even care about, is you just allocate some region of the screen.

By joining Google AdSense program, you can insert a small snippet of code in your webpage and Google ensures that in the location you specify and a banner related to your content will appear. It's very easy for Google to do this because Google is a search engine company. It looks for the key words in your page, searches a database of websites to find the ones related to your content. You make a certain amount of profit for each visitor that clicks on an Adsense banner on your site.

This is also great for advertisers. The greatest thing about Google AdSense is that all the content in a banner is relevant. This relevancy is the key to the success of programs, and also the reason why everyone remains happy. The advertiser has a relevantly placed advert, the publisher earns money from their content and Google take their cut. Everybody wins.

Of course, as always, Google has set some high standards for its AdSense program, in terms of looks and functionality. You can't have more than two such banners on your website and Google only inserts text in these banners. So an extra benefit is that AdSense advertising is a lot less obtrusive then regular advertising. But this also means you should position the banner better because it's possible that visitors might miss it altogether. So in the end, Google AdSense is an advertising program that is unique because the ads are relevant to the content on the site. Anyone that wants to advertise pays Google for it. Anyone who wants to place ads on their site does this through AdSense, getting paid by Google in the process.

All transactions are run through Google, and the advertisers and publishers get access to statistics which help them to understand and moderate the effectiveness of their campaign. The whole process is elegant, simple and effective from anyone in the chain, from site visitors to advertisers, and it's one of the reasons Google are known for their innovation and new thinking.




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