Enable AdSense for your blog

You can make money with your blog by enabling AdSense. AdSense is Google's content-targeted advertising program. If you use AdSense, relevant ads will automatically be shown based on what your posts are about. For example, if you blog about baseball, you might see ads for “Major League Baseball memorabilia” next to your post. If you blog about painting, you might see ads for “Art Supplies.”

1.      Click on the Earnings tab from the drop-down menu on your dashboard.

2.      You’ll then see the AdSense overview page. If you haven’t signed up for AdSense yet, click Sign up for AdSense.

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3.      Select whether you'd like AdSense on the Google Account you're currently signed in to, or if you'd like to create a new Google Account.

4.      Complete the application form, review the information you've provided, and then agree to terms and conditions.

Ads will not appear on your blog until your application has been approved. Once you receive confirmation that your application was approved, you can control the ways the ads show up on your blog through the settings on the Earnings tab at anytime. It’s up to you whether or not to show ads, and where on your blog to display those ads (sidebar and posts, just sidebar, or just posts) if you’re using Traditional templates. Dynamic Views users can skip this step, as we’ve already optimized ad placement for Dynamic Views templates.

To learn more about monetizing your blog, check out About the Blogger "Earnings" tab or About AdSense for your blog.

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About the Blogger "Earnings" tab

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The Earnings tab in Blogger makes it easy to enable AdSense ads on your blog. Once your account has been approved, you can go to the earnings tab to go to your AdSense dashboard.

AdSense Report

Once you start generating AdSense impressions, you'll begin earning money when people click on ads that appear on your blog. To see earnings information, go to your Earnings tab and click on the "View Dashboard" link.

All time

If you're an existing AdSense user, you'll notice that Blogger created a new channel (with the URL of your blog) in your account. If you have had AdSense ads on your blog before using Blogger’s AdSense integration to insert ads into your blog, note that All time will retrieve data only from the time you connected Blogger to your AdSense account.

This does not affect your overall AdSense reporting, available directly from AdSense.

Terminology

The AdSense report visible from the Earnings tab contains basic information about how many ads have run on your blog, how many clicks were generated, and how much revenue you've earned. Each term in the report is defined below:

·         Page views: A page view is generated every time a user views a page displaying Google ads. We'll count one page view regardless of the number of ads displayed on that page. For example, if you have a page displaying three ad units and it's viewed twice, you'll generate two page views and six ad unit impressions.

·         Clicks: The number of times the ads were clicked on in the given reporting period.

·         Page CTR (Click-through rate): The number of ad clicks divided by the number of page views.

·         CPC (Cost per click): The average amount paid by the advertisers for each ad click.

·         Page RPM (Revenue per mille): This is revenue per 1,000 page views. RPM = (Page views x CTR x CPC) / 1,000

Learn more about Adsense for your blog in the Adsense Help Center.

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