Earn money with Blogger

EARNING MONEY FROM YOUR BLOG

This is the most important section of this guide because here you will learn how to actually earn money from your blog that you have created in the previous steps. Basically you will have to put some ads on your blog to generate money.  There’s an Ad publishing system that you can apply for to be able to make money from your blog. That publishing system is known as Google Adsense. Although it is a very popular publishing platform among Internet users but if you are still not familiar with it then that’s not an issue.

You can simply apply for a Google Adsense account and join it with your Blogger account. However, there are a few requirements before you can actually apply for an Adsense account. Here’s just a short summary of those requirements:

• You must have a website. Now in our case we just created one for ourselves. A blog can also be called a website because it fulfills all the requirements of a website. If you have created a blog for yourself you have completed this requirement.
• You must be at least 18 years old. You can of course create a blog for yourself if you’re younger than 18 years but you cannot earn money from it until you turn 18. That’s just a requirement of the Google Adsense platform that we must comply with.
• Your blog or website should comply with Adsense Program Policies. There are a few program policies that you need to adhere to if you want to apply for an Adsense account. You can read about those policies here.
• Your blog / website must be active for at least 6 months. Yes, unfortunately that is a requirement and your blog is not qualified for an Adsense account until it has been operational for at least 6 months old. But if you look at it in the long term, it’s not a big issue because in this period you will have the time to focus on your blog and publish good quality posts on it. And obviously your Adsense ads won’t be able to generate a decent amount of money unless you have a good number of readers and visitors on your blog. So during those 6 months you should really focus on writing and publishing high quality articles and bring as much readers and visitors to your blog as possible. When that waiting period is over, you will immediately start to earn money when you place the Adsense ads on your blog.

Now here are the steps that you need to perform to apply for an Adsense account:

1. In your Blogger Dashboard go to the Earnings section as shown in the image below:

In the earnings section you should be able to see the Sign up for Adsense button. If you see another message that says Your blog doesn’t currently qualify for AdSense then this means you need to wait for the 6 months before you can apply for it.

2. Assuming you are qualified for Adsense, when you click the Sign up button you will be taken to a screen like that looks like this:

To create an Adsense account you will have to click on the Create Account button. After this you will be asked to enter your personal, residential and payment information to complete your Adsense registration. You will need to carefully fill out those details because you want to be able to receive your earnings without any problems. So once you create your Adsense account, now it’s time to put the Adsense ads on your blog so you can earn money from them. If you need further details about how to setup Adsense you can read our other guide focused on making money with Youtube here.

3. To put Adsense ads on your blog, you need to go to the Layout section of your blog dashboard. In the Layout section, you will need to add gadgets to your Blog’s sidebar or Footer so you can display the ads there. Here’s how it looks like

4. Click on the Add a Gadget button to add a gadget on your sidebar and put your Google ads inside it. When you click the Add a Gadget button you will see a screen as shown below:

As shown in the image above you need to select the Adsense option and add it in your selected gadgets. That’s how you integrate Google Ads in your blog to start earning money from them. It is important to note that you can only earn money if your readers and visitors click on the ads displayed on your blog. The amount of money you can make through your blog depends on the number of clicks you get on your ads. Bloggers who are able to generate a good amount of traffic on their blogs can earn even more than a thousand dollars per month. But that only depends on how much effort you put into your blog.

CONCLUSION

Creating a brand new blog for yourself and configuring it to be able to generate income is as simple as described in this guide. The whole process of creating a blog and signing up for an Adsense account is pretty easy. The hardest part is consistency and actually being able to earn money by turning it into a profitable source of income. More than 90 percent of bloggers are not able to keep up with the pace they started and only a small portion of those bloggers actually achieve success in making their blogs profitable. All of those successful bloggers share some important traits which are consistency, patience and a passion for writing. If you have those characteristics then you will one day surely count among the successful entrepreneurs.

Hopefully we have covered a good detail for you to start a blog and earn money with Blogger.com.