Google AdSense is a very popular way to add income to your blog.
If AdSense is not for you, there are plenty of other advertising options.
You can type "AdSense alternatives" into your favorite search engine for other advertising options.
You can choose from inline ads, contextual ads, or banner ads.
What type of ads? Inline ads are those ads that are similar to Google AdSense.
Short text ads that are contained within a box you put on your site.
Contextual ads are the words marked in blue and are double underlined that you see in an article.
They link to other sites.
This form of advertising is growing increasingly common.
Banner ads are also called graphic ads because they add a graphic to your site.
Which type of ad should I use? That depends on your website and your readers.
Look at websites with similar subjects as yours, see what type of ads are on those sites.
You can try to talk to the site owners to ask what type of advertising works for them.
Some site owners will share information, some will not.
But one helpful trick is offering them an article or something they can give their readers as a free gift.
This goes a long way in making friends with other blog owners.
Is there an ad format that has an advantage? Mostly that depends on your niche.
Unfortunately people have grown accustomed to seeing ads, so they have learned how to ignore them.
Contextual ads still have a curiosity feature to them.
While people are used to graphic ads, they still have visual appeal.
And as for text ads, if it says the right thing, people will click.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it brings in revenue when people click.
Where should I put my ad? This yet another area that depends on your niche, but as they say it is all in "Location, location, location.
" Many people have trained themselves to ignore the ad at the top of a blog.
Contextual ads do not disrupt the text of your article but do create curiosity.
Ads near the bottom are popular.
If you place it near the bottom and have information around it people will be interested in you and the ad just because it might be related.
Should I have ads on my site? This depends on you and your blog.
There are several ad options available and one might work with your niche and readers.
If you have a product or service to sell this gives your readers an opportunity to click away from your site, perhaps before they read your offer.
Yet, this form of advertising might be the only way to get money from people who are window shoppers.