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Make Easy Money with Google: Using the AdSense Advertising Program

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Google's AdSense program has allowed anyone to make money from their website. Eric Giguere attempts to explain how this is done in the book Make Easy Money with Google : Using the AdSense Advertising Program.

Content: Making Money with Google; Understanding AdSense; Finding Something to Say; Getting Ready to Say It; Designing Your Site; Building Your Site; Becoming an AdSense Publisher; Publishing Ads on Your Site; Making Money from Your Site; Expanding Your Horizons; Index

This is one of those books that I have a hard time figuring out how to rate. On the positive side, Giguere does a good job showing what the AdSense program is, how it works, and how to get set up with it. There is also quite a bit of material on how advertising works, as well as how companies can "bid" on keywords to make sure their ads show up more frequently when certain content is displayed. The whole book is done as a conversation between the author and a couple of people who are asking him how to make money on the web. If you have a website and want to learn about the AdSense program, this part of the book will appeal to you.

The problem I have with the book is focus. In my opinion, far too much of the book is spent on explaining web sites, domains, and how to go about creating a website. The people I know who have started using AdSense to pick up a few dollars from their site *already have a site*! I don't need an explanation about domains, choosing a site name, and instructions on how to build a page. Been there, done that a *long, long* time ago. The only way I could recommend this book in its entirety would be if someone was looking for a money-making opportunity, and didn't know squat about websites. And if that's the case, focusing on building a website merely to support your AdSense efforts seems a very tall order...

Nice styling, easy to read, and good information about the AdSense program. Unfortunately, well over half the book was off-target in my opinion... Caveat emptor...

After reading the reviews, I have to agree with the majority. This is a book for those who do not have websites or the knowledge about the Internet. I have about 50, of which a couple pull about 5000 visitors a day. I was able to skip through a lot of chapters and get to the Adsense section. Using the book, I was able to increase my daily intake from about $11 to about $70.00 (that's over $2000.00 a month)and obviously paid for the book. :)

The best part was that I really didn't understand a section and I e-mailed the author, Eric. HE REPLIED!! He has given a little more insight to my particular situation and it has helped. I think that there may be another book on the horizon for those of us who are ready to progress to MEMWG II. I'll buy it.

The author boasts that he write in narrative form, unlike other computer how-to books. What this really means is that he says in 250 pages what could be said in 10. This book is really about building your website, what content to put in it, and optimizing your site for the search engines. The fact that you have a couple of lines of code that embeds the AdSense ads in your site is treated as an afterthought.

There is very little information in this book that I found helpful even if I were a beginner. Lots of common sense. I found the format annoying ("dialog-based"). My recommendation - use the web for information. I returned the book. PS: There is no "easy" way to make money on Adsense... it takes a lot of work.

This is a very odd book. Ostensibly it is supposed to be about making easy money using Google's AdSense advertising program. The book is written as a narrative of characters attempting to build a web site that will make them money. It is truly a strange approach.

Instead of sticking to the subject of the title, the author instead takes the reader through the mechanics of building a web site, including registering a domain name and --- I kid you not --- "finding the perfect name." He then launches into a primer on basic HTML. Very weird in a book supposedly about Google AdSense.

Perhaps this book would be useful for a person totally inexperienced in just about everything, including tying their shoes. As a primer on Google's AdSense program, it is very lightweight. There are far better books on the subject.

Jerry

If you're just starting out and "html", "site", "adsense", "ftp", "domain" and "host" sounds like greek to you, this is the perfect book to get you started on your path to prosperity ...

If you however already own a site, and you're already a member of adsense, go check out Erics blog instead. This book will offer you nothing. I kid you not. Absolutely nothing.

I'll pass it on to my girlfriend who's curious and wants to start as well, she'll probably make good use of it.

If you're not a newbie, get Joel Comm's "The Adsense Code" instead. A lot more meaty.

This book is sold on the premise that it will teach you how to make money with AdSense. It is, however, a book about why and how you should build websites with the sole intention of being online. It falls into the category of self-help books that tell you that the web is there to make money from, and you can do it too. However, speaking as a web editor of 11 years, I can safely say that this book is aimed squarely at the absolute beginner, who have no idea how to build sites, and who want in on the money race. It shows you how to sign up and enable AdSense on your pages. But...there are no real tips on *how* you can maximise your revenue from page optimization and strategic placement, for example. I was looking for Best Practices and discussion about different methods, but found nothing of the sort.

You could probably learn more from visiting the AdSense program pages at Google and read their FAQs and experiment on your own. The upside is that the book is cheerful and brightly colored...It is however NOT going to make you your first million.

I have to defend this book. It wasn't written for advanced AdSense users, so it cannot be judged as if it were. I'm an AdSense user, and this is the book I recommend to my non-technical friends and family members who don't understand how I make money from running ads on my Web site. It's perfect for them to learn how to do it too. How else are newbies going to get started if there is no book for them?

Everything Eric writes is knowledgeable, down-to-earth, helpful, and honest. Remember that he had an editor for this book too, so it was probably changed a lot from his usual style. His new book, Uncommon AdSense, probably better reflects his writing style since it didn't have a big publisher. I like his companion blog for this book too. It reflects himself as an honest, smart guy whom you can trust to teach you about AdSense.

This book fleshes out in detail the possibilities with Google AdSense by providing clear instructions for beginners. For those with a bit more experience in developing sites, the book provides one with plenty of helpful sites (in addition to exclusive sites by the author). The author is careful to make NO claims of big money, but instead stresses that most sites will make some money. It's a good instruction manual for bloggers and web developers to cover their expenses.

The book was very helpful to me. It is true that I could have found the same information online but not with the same explanations and presentation. The book is not written for technical people and the author makes it clear. Rather the book is written for an average person who is interested in creating a website and using the website to advertise ads from Google.