Q: I am a newbie to Internet marketing. I want to get a quick, easy Web site set up and running with Google AdSense. What is the best software to use, and is it safe to use templates?
A: One of the quickest and easiest ways to get set up is to go with a blog. My personal favorite is WordPress, and it’s free to use, and you just install it on your hosting account.
The company I use for hosting blogs is LivingDot. The offer a few packages, and they start at $10 or so per month.
LivingDot will install WordPress into your account for you and they’ll also perform free upgrades of WordPress upon request.
They also support Movable Type, another platform for blogs.
I’ve experienced very good support from LivingDot, and WordPress is easy to use.
As far as templates, there are tons of free “themes” (templates) available for WordPress, and they’re very easy to install on a WordPress blog.
If you decide to have your own non-blog site with a template, I don’t see any harm in that.
It’s all about the content on your site. So long as you’re creating original content, you’ll trigger relevant ads from Google AdSense and all will be well.
The peril is in making a “Made for AdSense” site of MFA that doesn’t really serve a purpose beyond taking other people’s content and trying to get visitors to click your ads.
In that case, it doesn’t matter if you have a template or not – the site will be garbage.
Just create quality content and the clicks will come.
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> Try putting some adsense on a site that is PHP related and you will see your adsense stall severely.
Mine is on a PHP site and I haven’t noticed any issues. Is AdSense known to not play nice with PHP?
Actually, I think that the person should really decide if adsense is worth the trouble. It really depends on a lot of variables such as how tech savvy the readers are as well as the niche itself.
From my experience, I have found that sites that don’t have a tech savvy does far better in CTR than those that have an audience of internet geeks. Don’t believe me? Try putting some adsense on a site that is PHP related and you will see your adsense stall severely.
There are a ton of other options to monetize a site that is far more profitable than adsense. However, all these take a little more work.
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