College Money

The burning question that is on every blogger’s mind; ‘Is making money with Google a scam?‘  Good question.  the answer would depend on whom you ask.  If you ask a successful blogger that has put in some work and time and is using Google’s products to the fullest than the answer is no it’s not a scam.  If you ask a part time blogger that hasn’t really put any effort into making money then they might erroneously yes, it is a scam.

I think Google is a great way to make money if you know how to use it effectively. There are lots of people who are making money with google and you could be one of them. There are even people who are making thousands of dollars a month or millions per year from Google. An example of this is the guy (Markus Frind) who owns PlentyOfFish.Com dating site who makes about $10,00 per month or over a million dollars a year from Google Adsense. He’s been very open about showing other people that making money with google is not a scam. About himself Markus says: “I’m also the largest individual adsense publisher, the only site in the top 100 run by one person etc. Plentyoffish is the 3rd largest dating site in north america after yahoo and match.”

But Markus is not alone and there are plenty of other people who are making money with Google like this guy who went from $8 a day with Google to $800 a day.

Google does a good job at turning something that you would do for free into a paid platform for you. For example, Google has several products to help you get paid like Google Adsense and Adwords.  The easiest of the two to get into for newbies is Adsense and is fairly simple to do. You would first begin by signing up for an Adsense account and then place ads in different locations on your site or blog.  Google will then pay  you each time someone  clicks on those ads or per set number of impressions. Impressions are basically the rotation of the ads, see after a certain amount of views of a particular ad (e.g. people viewing your website) Google will automatically switch the ad that is displayed to a different relevant ad.  Now with Adwords, there’s enourmous money to be made. However, it’s a lot more complicated than Adsense and is not recommended for newbies because you could actually lose money if you don’t really know what you’re doing. If you’re really interested in knowing, you can read more here.

Some people I know think that making money with Google is a scam because it takes so long to get paid.  Which I can understand as a gripe. In order for a payout, your account has to be at least $100 and then you get a check a month after your account reaches that amount.  To get to that $100 alone may take a long time especially if you don’t get a lot of traffic to your website. Patience is key. Also, there are lots of  inside tricks to getting  people to click on your ads that you need to know as well which will help to increase how much you make from Google each month.

As  you build your fan base and post more articles, the ads placed on your site will be more and more relevant to your content and theme thus making people more likely to click on your ads as opposed to some random ad that has nothing to do with what your blog is about.  Google also allows you to customize and filter out what ads appear on your site. You have control over what you choose to sell to your audience and what you choose not to.

For sure, Google is not a scam and can be a worthwhile source of income if you work with it and remember that patience is key.