Thursday, 3 September 2009
Adsense Guidelines
Ready to earn some pocket cash? Chances are that you’ve already heard about Google’s massively popular advertising program called Adsense. But did you know that Adsense is the highest paying per-click advertising program on the entire internet? Just one click on an Adsense ad can yield more than $2.00 at certain times. And now you can share in this earning potential whenever you post articles to CollegeTimes.
Note: Only writers approved as VIP Bloggers will be able to earn Adsense revenue.
What is Google Adsense revenue sharing?
Ad revenue sharing is becoming a popular developement model on some community-based websites. Simply put, contributors (writers) are allowed to link their CollegeTimes account to their Google Adsense account in order to display ads on every article they write. Thus, the more you write, and the more successful our website becomes, the more money you earn. At this time, writers’ ads are displayed a full 100% of the time on all articles they submit. This is a fantastic deal for our writers – most similiar programs only offer writers 50% of ad impressions or less! Please click on the below screenshot image to see where your ads will be displayed on each of your articles:
Why don’t you just pay me cash?
The revenue sharing system is quite beneficial for both writers and developers. By allowing writers to earn money via ad clicks, our writers are not only more motivated to contribute to our site, but can also earn more money over a long period of time. Imagine for a minute that you are being paid by a marketing company $5.00 for every article you post about Viagra. Well, your earning potential stops right there at $5.00. In contrast, with ad revenue sharing, you can earn a profit on your articles infinitely into the future as long as CollegeTimes and Google Adsense exist (which we hope and expect is a very long time!). We find this to be a healthy business model as our writers can have fun watching their ad revenue grow, and our staff is not strapped for cash or time by trying to payout writers all the time. Anyway, our writing community here at CollegeTimes was not created primarily for making money, so a “profit-sharing” atmosphere makes more sense so that everyone shares in our website’s success!
Is this a trick? What are your secret motives?
Believe it or not, the system is pretty simple. We don’t have any secrets to hide. Our main purpose for building this website was to create a unique, intellectual, stimulating community whose main audience is college students and alumni around the world. If we can earn a few bucks in the process, we will be happy, and we thought our writers would feel the same way. If you have more questions, please feel free to contact us!
Allright but is this legal?
Ad revenue sharing is completely legal. By earning ad revenue from articles, you are a contractor or service provider to Google, Inc. – you are NOT an employee of CollegeTimes. In fact, your revenue will not even be taxed by Google because your earnings are not considered wages. Please consult an accountant for more information. As far as we can tell by researching Google’s TOS, this sort of sharing program is allowed with Google Adsense – as long as each writer applies for the Adsense program with their own, self-created website.
Okay sounds good. How do I acquire a Google Adsense account?
Firstly, please make sure you have been approved as a VIP Blogger before you spend time trying to get approved for a Google Adsense account. Also, whatever you do, please don’t attempt to apply for Google Adsense by mentioning CollegeTimes. You MUST apply using a website that YOU have created, or you will be immediately banned and might have trouble re-applying. Ready?
The fastest way to get approved for a Google Adsense account is suggested below. We provide this information for educational purposes only and do not claim any official knowledge on this subject. Writers must apply for Google Adsense on their own – our staff can not and will not help you do so. Please research more on the internet if the below information does not help you.
Fastest Way To Get Approved For AdSense – by ezinearticles.com
This is a quick tip that I figured out. To get an approved AdSense account from Google you must have a site that goes by Google’s terms and conditions and sites that Google favors the most. So the following are quick steps to get rolling with AdSense.
1. Go to blogger.com and sign up for an account.
2. Follow step-by-step instructions of setting up your account.
3. Follow the directions of choosing and setting up your template.
4. Choose a topic that you love talking about the most for your blog.
5. Create several posts with one paragraph per post, just to get started. Make sure you have at least six sentences per paragraph. Make sure each posts contains high quality content.
6. Go to your dashboard and select your blog.
7. You should come into a page with four tabs on the top: Posting, Settings, Template, View Blog.
8. Select Template and then select AdSense.
9. Follow the sign-up process and you should most likely be approved for AdSense in several days.
Anyone who follows the steps can be accepted for Google’s AdSense program. I have gotten two people approved through these steps and I know that these will work for everybody, guaranteed. Make sure you do NOT post anything related to sex or anything else against Google’s AdSense policies other than that you should be fine.
So, if you have been rejected by Google for an AdSense account in the past and you want to know how to apply for an account without getting rejected, then this is the best way to get an AdSense account ASAP.
Okay, cool beans. I was approved for Google Adsense. Now what?
If you have a Google Adsense account, now you must setup the proper “ad zone” (a.k.a. “ad slot”) for your CollegeTimes account, and then you must enter your zone information into your CollegeTimes user dashboard. Firstly, here are instructions for setting up a “468×60 Banner Ad” in Google Adsense – you must setup a zone exactly like this… if you attempt other types of ad zones, we might suspend your account:
Go here: https://www.google.com/adsense/
1. Login to Adsense
2. Click “Adsense Setup”
3. Click “Adsense for Content”
4. Choose “Ad Unit – Text and image ads”
5. Format: “468×60 Banner”
6. Colors:
Border: #FFFFFF
Title: #6496c3
Background: #FFFFFF
Text: #000000
URL: #6496c3
7. Corner Styles: NONE
8. Alternate Ads: Show public service ads
9. Click “Continue”
10. Click “Add new channel” and name it something like “CollegeTimes Banner” (This is mostly for your own purposes, so that you can more easily track your clicks from CollegeTimes users…)
11. Click “Save” and then “Continue”
12. View your final code, and extract the following information from your code:
- Publisher ID (i.e. “pub-0123400000000001″)
- Ad Slot ID (i.e. “7123456001″)
Okay I’ve setup my Google Ad Zone (Slot). Now what?
Enter your Google Adsense Publisher ID and Ad Slot ID for your 468×60 ad zone into your CollegeTimes user dashboard and click save. See the below screenshot. From this point on, you are done!
Your ads will be displayed by our system at a rate of 100% on all the articles you submit (our staff ads do not currently take any of your “ad impressions” away from you!). Please allow 20-30 minutes for your ads to display correctly after setting all of this up. After a few days, if you don’t notice any “page impressions” within your Google Adsense account for your CollegeTimes ad zone, please contact us. However, please don’t email us simply to ask why you aren’t earning money, because that is a bit out of our jurisdiction. Your ad earnings are based on a complex algorithm created by Google and on some days you will earn nothing, and other days you might earn a few dollars. Give it time, and help our website grow, and you will see your numbers rise!