Learn How Easy it is to Add HTML Code to Your Website or Blog

If you're reading this, the thought of using html code probably overwhelms you.

Don't worry.  It's easy.

What Skills Do I Need?

All you really need to learn is how to copy code and then how to paste it.  That's it.

Highlight the entire code and copy it.  In the case of a blog, paste your code anywhere on your blog post.  Just be sure your writing is switched to html mode.

If you're using a website making application, open up (or create) an html box.  Then paste your code in that box.

How Do I Get an HTML Code?

There are many ways to generate html codes.

If you've signed up for Google's free Adsense Program, then you would produce a "New Ad Unit" and choose "Save and Get Code."  Then your html code will pop up.

Here is a screenshot of the html code I will copy and paste to this actual blog post.

If you're wanting to make any type of advertisement using Amazon's services through their Amazon Associates Program, you will choose to get the html code as well towards the end.  Amazon's product code generator is typically at the right-hand side of every product you've chosen.  They make it really easy to find the create code button.

Google Ads are Not a Scam and are a Legitimate Way to Earn a Little Money Online

Are a Google Ads a scam?  No.

Adding Google Ads to your blogs or websites is a legitimate way to make a little money online.

 When you use Google to search for things online, do you notice those advertisements that are dispersed across the page?  How about ads on information and community websites online?

Owners of those websites use Google Adsense to make a little from you every time you click on a Google Ad even if they're providing free information.

What's the Catch?

There isn't one.  Businesses operate to make a profit.  They can't sell their products or services if people don't know that they exist.

How Does it Work?

Many people use the internet to look for local or online shops and retailers.  Millions of people go online to find useful information and can land on numerous websites.  Every website and blog competes to be found in the top searches on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing to name a few.

Google dominates the web as a search engine.  Over the years that we've tracked visitors for our various web visitors consistently shows us that well over 90% use Google as their primary search engine.

Who Pays for These Ads?

The advertisers that realize that they can get a lot of targeted traffic through Google will sign up for their Adwords program.  By using Adwords, businesses can write advertisements and pay (bid) a certain amount of money to Google for every time someone clicks on their ads.

Advertisers pay Google for these advertising services and essentially Google's massive audience exposure.  Google splits these advertising dollars with owners of websites (or blogs) who feature Google Ads on their websites.  It's as simple as that.

How Do You Find Out How Much You've Earned?

Signing up for Google Adsense is free.

After you've signed up with a free account, you can make your first new ad (to display and not write one) and paste that html code to your website.  For more information on how this works, read this post.

Log into your account and view your Performance Reports and view your earnings there.  It is broken up according to website, day, type of ad, etc.

Multiply Your Blogs to Multiply Your Earnings with Google Ad Clicks

Let's talk about making a little money using Google Ads. For more information on how this works, read this post.

If Bob is making an average of 50 cents to a dollar a day from his Google Ads alone, he is able to make up to $30 a month (give or take $5 or so) or roughly $360 a year.  Earning money with Google Ads is not a guarantee of course and depends solely on your traffic and if they find your displayed Ads useful (by clicking on them).

Now think about multiplying your blogs in order to increase your capabilities of earning a little more money through your Google Ads.

If you get another two successful (i.e. content rich niche, helpful, getting a steady stream of visitors) blogs up and running, then you can possibly double your earnings in time.  So instead of earning roughly $30 a month, you've increased your potential to $60 a month with those two new blogs.  That is $720 a year.

That sounds like making a little bit of money and it is but your earnings vary.  Earning a little money on your blogs or websites using Google Ads can be a start.  If your site has a lot of valuable information and is attracting a high volume of steady traffic through interested visitors, then your $1 a day earnings could easily increase to $2 or $20 a day depending upon the ratio you have.  And that is with one site alone.

Think about the significant jump in traffic you'll receive if you spend the time to develop content-rich blogs and sites.  This takes a lot of hard work and time.  It is doable and we don't recommend that you build websites or blogs as your sole source of income from home.  Rather, if you have a lot of helpful information on a particular topic or subject and enjoy sharing information, using Google Ads may help you earn a little money until you get ebooks, books, or information products ready for sale on your website (or blog).

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Use Google's Free Blog Service to Make a Little Money from Home: Amazon Associates Program

A way that you can make a little money from home is by placing Google Adsense Ads on your blog (or website).  We covered that in this blog post.  When you use those Adsense Ads, you get paid every time anyone clicks on an Ad.  They don't have to buy anything.

Amazon Associates

Another way that you can earn a little money from your blog or websites is by signing up for the Amazon Associates Program.

It doesn't take very long to fill out their necessary forms.

How Do You Earn Money? 

In order for you to earn money from the Amazon Associates Program a visitor must make a purchase on Amazon.

There are many ways that you can make a little money using Amazon Associates:

1.  A person needs to click on any link with your affiliate code in it. 
2.  A person makes a purchase of any product by using an Amazon search box where your affiliate code is embedded.
3. A person purchases an item from your Amazon Associates aStore (or another product from Amazon found through that widget)

In Order to Get Visitors (People) Who Will Click on Your Ads They Will Need to Find You First

It makes sense that you need visiting web visitors in order to increase the probability that someone will find one of your Ads useful and possibly click on it.

Your chances of visitors clicking on an Ad that is useful to them increases dramatically when a web visitor finds your blog (or website) because of relevant information they were searching for.

The Benefits of a Writing in a Niche You Know or Enjoy --- Ranking High Online in Your Field

In order to be found online, your blog (or website) needs to stand out and start ranking high within the search engines.  This is where choosing the right niche or topic makes it easier for others to find you.

As you build your blog (or website) through a lot of relevant information that is rich with helpful content, you will start to rank well for certain keywords.  If you start a brand-new blog (or website) and work really hard at filling it with the right information, you can start ranking very high on Google within a matter of a few months or even sooner.

It all depends on the topic you've chosen, how much information you have on your blog (or website), your competition, and a couple of other factors.

We've done this for different blogs and websites on various topics that we're highly interested in and they've consistently ranked on the first page on Google within a short period of time for many important keywords of that topic.

It is exciting to see our blogs (or websites) even rank number 1 on Google for important keywords!

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Use Google's Free Blog Service to Make a Little Money from Home: Get Paid When People Click on Ads

Yes, you can get paid a little money when people click on Ads on your blog.

We've been paid as much as $2.99 for a single click to as little as 3 or 12 or 16 cents.

People don't need to buy a product or service.  They just need to click on any Ad.  But these advertisements must be a specific type of ad.  They are called "pay-per-click" ads because you are paid money every time someone clicks on your ads.

A very popular free service that has a multitude of pay-per-click ads is through Google.  Don't be discouraged though!  It's a lot easier signing up than it may sound.

Here is a screenshot of a random time we earned $0.78 for our clicks

Sign Up for a Free Adsense Account

You would need to sign up for a Google Adsense account.

If you can sign up for an email account, you can easily go through a slightly similar process in order to sign up for a Google Adsense account.  Instead of typing "gmail.com" into your search bar or website search engine, you would type "Google Adsense" instead.

Screenshot of Google Adsense website page

Sign Up for a Free Blog 

Once you've opened up a free Adsense account to create free ads from, you would need a website or blog to display them.  You can use pretty much any type of platform using a variety of sources available to you whether paid or free.

We use free blog services.  We like using these free services as a way to test out if an idea is fairly good.  Blogger is a good start for a free blogging platform if you are trying to make a little money from home.

Choose a name and title for your blog.  Then you can post immediately.  You can have a blog or website log within a few minutes.  It's that easy.

Create Ads, Copy the Code, and Paste Them to Your Blog Post (the old-fashioned method)

When your blog is up and running, write your first blog post.  Write as many articles as you'd like but don't wait too long to paste the code to your blog.

Right now Blogger (Google's free blog service) allows you to easily integrate their Adsense service.  As of this writing, we haven't tried that yet.  We place ads using the old-fashioned method which gives us control over where we'd like to place the advertisement codes.

Here is a screenshot of the section you'll see when creating a new ad

using Google Adsense

You need to create a New Ad in your Adsense account.  Go to the "My Ads" section on the upper left-hand corner.  Then click on "New Ad Unit."  It is easy to spot because it has a "+" plus sign beside it.

You will have to choose an Ad size and Type.  We like to choose Text Ads so as not to avoid offensive images.  We also think that by choosing text ads our blogs have an advantage to making more people comfortable.  Website visitors will also be able to easily navigate through the blog without distracting flashy photo advertisements.  So you have a choice of displaying Text, Media, or Text and Media Ads.

After you've chosen what type of ads you want, you then would click the appropriate button to create the ad and get the code.

Copy the code.  Then go to your Blogger blog.

Using the "HTML" mode paste the Ad code anywhere on your blog post.  We like to post our Google Ad Codes before, after, as well as the middle of our blog posts.

You can paste this same code three times within your blog post.

If you'd like to test out different ad sizes and types (related topics list, etc.) your free to go back to your Adsense Account and create more.

How Does it Work?  Is it a Scam?

Earning money from Google Ads clicks is not a scam.  It is a legitimate way to earn a little money.



Advertisers pay Google to advertise to a specific target of "customers."  Google uses the content on your blog (or website) to target the right audience.

Here is a screenshot of a Google Ad that turned up today on one of our blog or websites focusing on restaurants

An example would be our restaurant pages.  The Text Ads that are featured on some of our Blog Pages or Posts that have restaurants or food mentioned will offer restaurant coupons, discounts, etc.


When your web visitors click on those Ads, you get paid a share of what Google gets paid.  Then Advertisers pay Google for that web visitor's one click.


If you already own a high traffic niche (topic) related blog or website, your ability to earn money is a lot higher and faster than those starting out a blog from scratch. 

Place Ads on Your Blog's Sidebar

You have more options of displaying Ads on your Blogger Blog than just the blog posts themselves.  The sidebar is another good area to paste your Ad Codes.

On your blog's Layout Template, add an HTML widget on the sidebar area.  Then paste your Ad Code in the box.

Your box must be an HTML box or your Adsense Code will not display properly.

Remember, you're free to reposition your HTML box along your sidebar.  And yes you can add HTML boxes (and more Google Ads) on the bottom of your Blog as well.

You're Ready to Start Earning a Little Money

You're done!

Now you're ready to earn a little money whenever your blog (or website) visitors click on any of the Google Ads.

Some Helpful Tips

• Currently, Google allows a maximum number of 3 Ads to be displayed at any given time.  It's okay if some of your Ad placements do not appear when you check on them.  Remember, that sometimes website visitors will find the direct link to a specific post instead of your basic blog address. 
• Choose a good niche topic that you know a lot about or enjoy.  This will help you to write more words that are relative to your topic and more visitors will be apt to find your blog.
• Keep website statistics (there are free services available) so that you know what keywords you consistently rank high on Google (or other search engines such as Yahoo, Bing, AOL, etc.) for, what type of Ads website visitors click on the most, if others are referring your blog or blog posts, and a host of other information.
• Post relevant and helpful images
• The more Blog Posts and Pages you have that contain good information will help you to be found a lot sooner
• The more relevant traffic you have, the higher the probability is that they will click on at least one of your Ads because it is covering a topic that they are interested in 
• Once you have a blog (or website) established that has enough content to attract a steady amount of visitors every day, multiply your efforts by creating more blogs 

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