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Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program. Wordpress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins. Listed below are 10 best Adsense plugins which help you work smarter with wordpress.

• Adsense Deluxe - offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Adsense Deluxe+ claims to have a an improved ad limiting algorithm.
• Adsense Injection - inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog.
• Adsense Inline - inserts Google adsense in blog posts
• Adsense Beautifier - makes your Adsense look beautiful by placing images beside them to increase your clicks (CTR) and subsequent Adsense earnings.
• AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar - Google AdSense widget designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
• MightyAdsense - allows you to host the code in wordpress without having to modify the templates. Ads are displayed in post item and you can specify how many blocks its going to show up in a page.
• AdRotator Wordpress Plugin - rotates your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls wherever you want. Helps to reduce ad blindness and test different ad formats and affiliate programs.
• Adsense Earnings Wordpress Plugin - displays your adsense earning details within wordpress admin panel.
• WP-AdsenseProfit - shows your profit from the adsense program to the public by adding a simple call to the function in your template.
• AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System - allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.
• Author Adsense Wordpress Plugin - allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Admin can set the ratio of author’s ads to admin ads.

Support and upgrades are provided by the respective authors of these wordpress plugins. Use at your own risk. If you know of more Adsense wordpress plugins you like, let me know in comments and I can add them to the list.

The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information.

I apologize in advance if I missed anyone on the list. If you make more than the people listed, please send me proof of your Google AdSense earnings and I will add you on the next time the list is updated. This is a list of individual site owners - people just like you and me. Big corporate AdSense publishers like AOL are excluded.

1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month

Markus Frind is a local Vancouverite who is turning the online dating world upside down. His site, Plentyoffish.com is the biggest free dating site on the Internet. Plentyoffish.com receives up to 500 million page views per month and make over $10,000 per day for Markus, who runs the site from home.

You think a site this big would be staffed by a hundred people but the only employee that Markus has is his girlfriend, who helps to answer the emails. Markus coded Plenty of Fish all by himself. The site is lean and mean and requires only four servers to handle all that traffic.

Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings.

2: Kevin Rose: Digg.com - $250,000 per month

Kevin Rose started Digg in December of 2004 with just $1000. Today Digg is one of the biggest news sites on the Net, with over 400,000 members and over 200 million page views per month. According to this article from Business week, Digg will make $3 million this year from a combination of Google AdSense and Federated Media ads. Unfortunately, only Mr. Rose and his accountants knows how much came from Google and how much came from Federated Media. I can try to take a guess based on the number of times I have seen a Federated Media ad vs. a Google ad on Digg but, being in Canada, it’s almost 100% Google ads.

Whatever Google’s share of Digg’s $250,000 per month in ad revenues may be, one thing is for sure, it is not small.

3: Jeremy Shoemaker - $140,000 per month

If ever anyone can be considered an Internet marketing superstar, ShoeMoney would be near the top of the list. Jeremy Shoemaker is a search engine marketer who knows how to take advantage of both Google AdSense and AdWords. In the above photo, you see him with the biggest Google AdSense check he has ever received from Google. The income was earned back in the month of August 2005. Since then Mr. Shoemaker has moved to wire transfers. No doubt, he got tired to dealing with the bank tellers when trying to deposit $100K plus checks every month.

Unlike the other Google whores on this list, ShoeMoney, as he likes to be call, does not own just one site. He makes his enormous Google checks using hundreds of sites and thousands of domains.

4: Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. - $120,000 per month

Before Jason Calacanis sold Weblogs, Inc to AOL for $25 million, he got the network of blogs making over $4,000 a day from Google AdSense. So impressive was his AdSense performance that Google used Weblogs for a case study.

Now that AOL controls Weblogs, you can bet it is making a lot more than a measly $120,000 a month.

5: David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard - $100,000 per month

According to this Washington Post article, David Miles Jr. and Kato Leonard, claims they make $100,000 a month from their site, Freeweblayouts.net, which gives away designs that people can use on MySpace.

The only problem with the revenue figure is it is not 100% AdSense. Free Web Layouts use other advertising networks in addition to Google. However, with a claimed $100,000 per month in revenues, I am fairly confident that the AdSense portion is higher than our next Google whore.

6: Tim Carter: AskTheBuilder.com - $30,000 per month

Tim Carter is a licensed master plumber and carpenter with his own radio show. He also makes frequent television appearances. He founded AsktheBuilder.com in 1995, The primary focus has been catering to an avid following of fellow builders on the site. According to the Google case study, Mr. Carter did such a good job tweaking the Google ads on his site that it now makes $30,000 a month.

Tim’s AdSense revenues now average $1400 a day and growing. Overall, Carter is enthusiastic about AdSense: it allows him to focus on content development, and gives him built-in tools to measure ad performance and make changes to maximize revenues. “People come to me for help,� says Carter. “They get what they need from my columns and advice - and also from ads delivered by AdSense.�

7: Joel Comm - $24,000 per month

Joel Comm is get rich quick guru. He wrote the best selling e-book, What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense. The e-book, along with the website that promotes it has a screen shot of Mr. Comm AdSense earning from November 19, 2005 to December 15, 2005. Whether or not Mr. Comm still makes this much from Google is anybody’s guess.

8: Shawn Hogan – DigitalPoint.com $10,000 per month

Back in January of 2005 the New York Times had an article about AdSense, featuring Shawn Hogan, founder of DigitalPoint. The article states that Mr. Hogan makes $10,000 per month from Google AdSense using a very unique revenue sharing model.

Google pays Digital Point about $10,000 a month, depending on how many people view or click on those ads, said Shawn D. Hogan, the owner and chief technology officer of Digital Point.

Mr. Hogan said he started the revenue-sharing approach in 2004 “as kind of a marketing gimmick.�

“But everyone seemed to think it was a cool idea,� he said. “I saw a lot of other sites doing the same thing maybe six months later.�

DigitalPoint have grown a lot since that article and while Mr. Hogun would not say anything, the DigitalPoint forum members speculate that he is making at least twice that amount now.

Do not be misled though by false prophets promising adsense secrets… these people are not building like your average website builder does.

They have systems in place that create sites for them… people who build sites for them… they have outsourced and automated many of the tedious tasks such as posting to blogs and searching for keywords.

In a nutshell, you want to make sure the page you create offers great value to people interested in the topic you have researched, ideally high demand with low supply.

When you provide excellent information on a specific topic, your visitors will benefit and will be more likely to click through to your relevant Google Adsense Adverts.

Keep your sites easy to navigate and forget the fancy graphics that distract your visitors attention. Unless you are just building AdSense sites for the fun of it and not as a serious business… the purpose of having the site is to have people click on one of the ads.

Keep the site layout simple… dump the scrolling banners, dancing chickens and coloured scroll bars… they are distractions.

Here are 4 Required Steps you can implement today to copy their success and start making money.

1) Starting today… treat your AdSense business like it is a REAL business and track what you do.

Begin tracking what you are doing that works… as well as what you are doing that does not work. This will keep you from making the same mistakes over and over, and you can repeat the steps that have worked in the past. As simple as this step seems… most people do not know the reason for their success or failure.

2) Utilize the latest tools and software available to find good adsense keywords.

The Super AdSense earners are not any smarter than your average person. I know many people think they are… but for the most part, they are regular non techie people.

They are smarter in one respect though… they use the latest tools available to them to automate most of the tasks involved when researching and creating sites. They use the latest adsense keyword, site creation and search engine optimization tools available. The tools they use are their adsense secret weapons.

3) Quit chasing the High Paying keywords.

You cannot compete with the search engine experts who create sites for the $50 payout keywords. You may get lucky every now and then… but in the long run, you are better off building sites for the low to mid range payout keywords. The competition is less, and your chance of success is much higher over the long term.

4) Start with a broad niche and break it down.

Choose a broad subject as your main theme (lets use history of Jaguar cars as an example). From there… break it down into as many sub niches as possible.

You could build sub niches/sites like XK120 type from 1948 to 1954, XK 120 Roadster, XK120 Fixed Head Coupe, etc, etc. You could literally build hundreds of sites around one major theme and stay totally focus

It’s to your financial advantage to put the Adsense coding near the top of your page on the right. Make sure there is enough “breathing room” — i.e. white space around the ads — so that they will easily attract your visitors.

Plus, Google has some of the smartest engineers around, and they are very good at detecting this kind of fraud. And really, for an extra $1, is it worth getting kicked out of a money-maker like AdSense? I think not.

Place your adsense advertising instrategic places, for example place adsense links at the top just under your header and use blocks not skyscraper ads (these look like google ads and are invrably ignored by the viewer).

Adsense is still a very worthwhile business to get your Internet marketing business off the ground. But it must be treated as a real business and care must be taken when selecting the theme of your site to ensure there is enough demand to create a market of visitors.

If you build a site just for Adsense it will soon meet with the wrath of the search engines and all your work will be for nothing. Build good sites of quality content and the adsense ads will reflect the quality of your site. You will attract traffic and because your content is good they will be more than willing to click on your Adsense ads.

This is not short term millionaire fodder, you have to be in it for the long term, but by building quality sites your traffic and earnings will start small but will grow over the months and years with very little further intervention on your part.

David Dutch involved in Personal Training for over 20 yrs just 2 yrs ago developed an interest in Adsense as way of developing a business with little outlay

If you have a blog or website (or would like to create one) you can make money by signing up for Google’s AdSense and then displaying their ads on your webpages. In this article we describe how AdSense works and give pointers for optimizing the revenue you can generate with it. Through AdSense, you allow Google to display ads on your site or blog. You’ve probably come across many pages with blocks of ads with the text ‘Ads from Google’ next to them. Technically, AdSense works so you put a small piece of scripting code on your page and with this, ads from Google are shown automatically.

You make money when someone clicks on these online ads. Google will not tell you how much they will pay you before you sign up – they encourage you to join and then you’ll see what you’ll make as the revenue starts building. The reason is that they give you a percentage of the revenue they generate for the click on an ad. And the value of such a click varies with the content of the page, since Google displays ads on a webpage matching its content. A webpage about traveling is thus likely to display ads for airplane tickets, hotels, travel insurance and similar. Having ads related to the topic of the webpage is a way of making it more likely that a visitor will click on an ad. And since Google makes money per click on ads, they are keen on making as many visitors as possible click. The amount of visitors who click on an ad, divided by the number of visitors seeing it, is known as the click through rate or CTR.

If you already have a website or blog and wish to place AdSense ads on it, Google will match ads to the content already there. This means you have less influence over the theme of the ads and thereby the revenue they generate for Google and for you. If however you create a new website or blog with the purpose of making money online, you have a choice of theme for the content you produce. If you produce content for which advertisers pay a high price for clicks on ads, you will obviously generate good revenue for yourself.

Google finds its advertisers through their AdWords product. This works, so advertisers sign up and make bids for certain keywords. The advertisers with the highest bid for a certain keyword will have their ads shown first on pages where Google has matched the content to the keyword. This means that the clicks will pay well on ads on pages with content related to keywords with high bids. To determine which keywords pay well you can use Google’s keyword tool, found via the links below.

There are many – and sometimes contradictory – pieces of advice for placing ads on pages in order to achieve a high click through rate. You can decide what size of ad block you want and also decide about colors of text and background. This means that you can create big ads with loud colors in order to make sure that visitors see the ads. You can also do the opposite, which is to try to blend the ads into your webpage, by giving them the same font size, and font and background color as the rest of the page. Finally, you can place graphics around the ads in order to liven up the sometimes dull text ads Google provides. Google will not display more than three ad units on a given page – bear this in mind when designing a page. Trial and error seems to be the best way to optimize the appearance of ads.

Signing up to the program is completely free and quite simple. Putting the scripting code on a page is similarly very simple – you simple copy and paste the code provided by Google. Follow the links below to sign up for Google AdSense.

Note that Yahoo!, MSN and others offer similar programs and you can check them out too, to find out what generates the most revenue for you.

Last a few warnings. You may think that you can sign up and spend your day sitting at home clicking the ads on your site to generate revenue. This would however constitute what is commonly known as click fraud. When you sign up for AdSense you have to agree that you will not click on your own ads. You also have to agree that you will not encourage your visitors to click by including text like “please click the ads below” or “visit our sponsors”. While a lot of people certainly try to cheat – and some get away with it – you should know that Google do what they can to detect cheating and will kick anyone off the program who they find to be breaking the rules.

Blog Ads Hit Rough Patches, an article about mistargeting of Adsense lead me to ProBlogger (Achieve here) and Jen Sense (Making Sense of Contextual Advertising) – two very rich resources for those who are running Google Ads on their Blogs (and sites). Every thing about AdSense and a lot of practical tips are there for maximizing revenue. Nach Maravilla’s “8 Tips For Maximizing Contextual Advertising Revenues� is another good article on the subject.

• My Referrals
• What is AdSense
• Inside AdSense
• AdSense Tips
• Introducing Google AdSense
• CheatAd!
• Technorati Tag

• Behind the Scene(pdf)
• Blogosphere(pdf)
• Women and Children
• Blog Workshop
• Noor Ali Hassan
• Blogging Curriculum
• Blogging Strategies
• In the Blogosphere(pdf)

Have you ever tried to make money through affiliate programs using Google Adwords?

Then you know its not easy. Some say that only 2-3 out of 10 affiliate Adwords campaigns will actually make a profit.

But what if you could get your Adwords campaigns for free, or even make a little profit from using Adwords for promoting affiliate programs.

Actually you can get your Adwords campaigns for free if you combine your Adwords campaigns with Google Adsense.

With Google Adsense you place small ads on your own web-page, hoping that people will click on these ads. When someone clicks on a Google ad on your web-site, you make money.

The normal approach to making money with Google Adsense is to have thousands of pages with Google ads, but you can successfully make money with Google Adsense with just one page.

Thats right - one page!

1. Step
All you have to do is find niches, where people pay several dollars to get the top position in the Google ads. You can use Overtures bidtool to find high priced niche keywords.

2. Step
Next step is to build your one-page Google Adsense money machine. Find a free article in one of the article directories and set up a page with your keyword targeted article and three Adsense ad blocks. Use small Adsense blocks, that only shows the top three high priced ads.

3. Step
Last step is to set up a Google Adwords campaign with that niche keyword (and related keywords) - but you only bid 5 cents!

Now sit back and watch the magic. People click on your 5-cent ad and come to your one-page-Adsense website. They read your article - and some of them will click on the high priced ads on your page. Bingo! - youve made a small profit.

Nothing much, maybe a one dollar profit a day. My first Google Adsense Money Machine is generating a profit of 2-3 dollars a day - thats at least $730 a year for just one page.

Want to make more money with your one-page-money-machine?

Find an affiliate program in that niche, and put your affiliate link on the page. Some of your visitors will click the Google ads and some will click on your affiliate link. What ever they do, you win!

Now youve got your Google Adwords campaign for free or youre even making a small profit with your Google Adwords-Adsense money machine. At the same time youre marketing your niche affiliate program.

Final advice
Dont use this technique in the Internet Marketing market place - its much to crowded. Use your imagination and find niches like laser hair removal, wheel chairs, cell phone, homeowners loan etc.

Take action - and go find some money making niche keywords

Posted by Peter Da Vanzo @ 12:55 am PS

AdSense Help Forum in French

Parlez-vous français? If so, head over to the new AdSense Help Forum for French-speaking publishers: Forum d’Aide AdSense. In the forum, you can share your AdSense knowledge, ask troubleshooting questions, and discuss a wide range of AdSense topics with other publishers. A Google representative nicknamed ‘AdSensePro’ will also occasionally read and respond to your posts.

If you don’t speak French, don’t worry — the AdSense Help Forum is also available in Chinese, English, German, Japanese, and Portuguese.

AdSense for content in 4 new languages