Contextual advertising with Google Adsense is an extremely simple way for you to monetize your site. There are a number of WordPress plugins that make it very easy to place Adsense ads on your WordPress site, which has probably made this the most commonly used method to make some money with your website.

How it works

1) Advertisers from all over the internet sign-up up with the Google Adwords system. They then design small contextual adverts (of 3 lines + 1 URL line), and make monetary bids on specific search terms.

2) Publishers (you) join up with the Google Adsense system, and specify certain places on your website where you wish to display the contextual adverts that the advertisers created.

3) Google spiders the content of your page/post and gets a very good idea of what your page/post is about. They then display RELEVANT contextual ads in the places that you have specified.

4) If a visitor to your site clicks on one (or more) of the adverts, then Google pays you a percentage of what the advertiser paid to them for that click.

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Is that true? Absolutely, once you have done your homework, honed your skills and are comfortable with your business.

I’m Kevin, the other co-owner of this site and I make my living as an Internet Marketer. That wasn’t always the case, I had a regular 9 to 5 job in IT with a large UK University and in my spare time I “played” with the idea of earning some money online because all the information I saw told me I could. That information was both right and wrong.

I guess it was around 2002 that I discovered that you could easily sign up for free websites, already populated with products for sale and all I had to do was to send traffic and that traffic would buy the products and I would get rich. And, if I got 5 friend to sign up too, I would make even more money. Thankfully, those days are far behind me but those sort of practices still go on and new signups continue to put cash into the pockets of the owners instead of into their own pockets.

Like many Internet Marketers, I’ve learned my lessons and I’m comfortable knowing that what I do now is both lucrative and ethical.

Alan and I decided to share our experience and thoughts because it both helps us to clarify our processes and maybe, indirectly, to provide a little more income. We are Internet Marketers after all.