7 Step Guide to add Google AdSense in your website

You may have spent a lot of your time designing and updating your website. But you are not getting paid for the same.

As opposed to releasing your endeavors to squander, you can adapt your site by including Google AdSense.

Before moving on first let’s understand What is Google Adsense?
AdSense is a promoting system run by Google. It’s a free path for sites to bring in cash by showing focused on Google promotions on their destinations.

Google Ads come in all shapes and sizes. Your site can display images, videos, text, and interactive ads as a monetization strategy.

The best part of Google AdSense(apart of it being – Free) is that you don’t really have to deal with the advertiser directly, everything is handled by Google Platforms.

Google does all the work for you and in return also collects money from the advertisers, keeps some percentage of it for the work done by its platform and the remaining goes to you.

Now, what are the 7 Steps to add Google Adsense to your website?

Step 1: Set up your website

Obviously, before getting the Google Ads running on your website you first need to have a website. You can’t apply for it if you’re in the process of creating a new website or if your website in “Under Construction”.

Step 2: Ensure your site is consistence

Google doesn’t simply acknowledge any site into this program. You have to meet their qualification prerequisites to be thought of.

Google has an obligation to its promoters. Organizations don’t need their promotions related to particular kinds of sites, so it’s Google’s duty to survey your site content before you get acknowledged. These are a few instances of substance that can’t be included for pages with Google promotions:

• Mature or adult content
• Shocking content
• Excessive profanity
• Malware or adware
• Drugs or drug paraphernalia
• Sales of alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, weapons, or ammunition
• Illegal activity
• Hateful content or discrimination against religion, race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender, etc.

You can check the full list here.

Step 3: Apply for AdSense

Now since you are ready with your website, you can apply for AdSense by navigation to Google AdSense website and click on the green button which says “Sign Up Now”.

Step 4: Configure your Ads

Here you have to determine which types of advertisements you want to be displayed on your website by navigating to the respective menu given on the left of the dashboard.

Step 5: Copy and Paste AdSense code to your website

Google will naturally create a code for you to add to your site, which will look something like this.
Image Source: Search Engine Roundtable

Step 6: Update your privacy policy

When AdSense is enabled, you have to incorporate a privacy policy on your website. this is to let your website visitors know that a commercial network is displaying ads on your site.
Here’s the full Google resource for the required content in your privacy policy.

Step 7: Verify your address

Once you start earning from Google AdSense, you will receive a verification card from Google which includes a PIN associated with your AdSense account. Before you can withdraw you’re earning you need to follow the instruction given in the received card for verifying the PIN online.

Once the verification process is completed you will start withdrawing your earnings from your account when it reaches a specified threshold.

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