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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Learning how to use Wordpress will make things a LOT easier for yourself.

Wordpress is a rapid development environment that lets you build your web sites VERY quickly, and is one of the basic skills that you really want to consider mastering as an Internet marketer.

There are 2 versions … a “hosted version” at http://www.wordpress.com .. and a version that you load onto your own server and run from there. The best option by far, for serious business, is to have the version that you host on your own server.

7 Reasons to learn how to use Wordpress -

1. It is completely FREE. Many web hosts offer it for their clients within their control panel.
2. It is absolutely trivial to install.
3. It is quick and easy to learn how to use Wordpress.
4. There are plugins for just about anything to improve its core function.
5. Search engines (especially Google) LOVES it.
6. It has built in functionality to publicize itself via “feeds”, and get traffic.
7. Thousands of FREE themes that you can download and use.

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