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What forms of payment and currencies does AdSense offer?

Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2012 by

AdSense offers payment to publishers by check in US dollars, and also offers local currency options for publishers in 42 countries. Secured Express Delivery is available to all publishers, and Electronic Funds Transfer is offered in numerous different countries.Electronic Funds Transfer: Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) is a payment option that allows you to have your AdSense payments deposited directly into your bank account at no additional cost. With EFT, there's no risk of having a check lost in the mail and you don't have to wait for a check to clear. Within about 10 days after a "Payment in Progress" line appears in your AdSense account, you should see your earnings credited to your bank account. To sign up for EFT, simply follow the directions from theAdSense Help Center.Electronic Funds Transfer test deposit: First off, you can check to see whether we've attempted to make the deposit by selecting the My Account tab; if a Verify this account link shows up in the 'Payment Details' section, we've made an attempt. If we've tried to make a test deposit, it should arrive in your account about 4-10 days after you submit your bank account information. Please visit this page for more information and further instructions.You can view the payment options available to you by signing into your AdSense account, selecting the "My Account" tab and clicking "Edit" in the "Payment Details" section. Please visit the following page for further information.

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Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by


What is AdSense?

Google.com earns most of its revenue by allowing other website owners to advertise on their search result pages. All this is managed through a program they call AdWords.
Now you can earn a share of the revenue that Google earns from AdWords by displaying these same text ads on your site.  In other words, you're helping Google advertise and they pay you a percentage (roughly 60%) of what they earn.
This program is called AdSense.
Every website owner should at least consider the program.  Even if your site is just for information purposes, you can still participate and make decent money with AdSense -- or at least enough to fund your website.
So if you are one of those people that doesn't like the idea of paying for a site, this is an excellent way to earn your money back and then some.

How AdSense Works

Don't like to read a lot of text? Watch my 4-minute video on how AdSense works.










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4 Hidden Benefits to Monetizing via Google AdSense



In the past I have been a bit hard on AdSense, stating how it cannibalizes publishing, but there are some up sides to Google's AdSense too. Many people talk about the ease of implementation, scalability, and lack of maintenance cost, but 4 more rarely talked about benefits are...
  • Safety From Google Editors: Since AdSense is a Google product you never have to worry about internal Google quality rating guidelines calling an AdSense link a sneaky redirect (like they do with CJ links).
  • Profit From Spam: If you have a pharmacy affiliate or payday loan site then many people will consider the site spam by default. But if you tastefully write an article about such topics and then just happen to have AdSense on the page you are not viewed as a spammer by the general web public - Google (and AdSense) are a ubiquitous part of the web.
  • People Under-estimate Your Earnings: Many web publishers have published AdSense sites and made nothing. Thus if they see you publishing an AdSense site they may assume that your site earns nothing, and be less likely to clone your site and more willing to link at your site than they would be if your site appeared more commercially oriented.
  • The Informational Bias of Organic Links:Information is generally considered more citation-worthy than pages that sell stuff. Thus if you monetize via AdSense you can get inbound links to the money making pages without having to buy links. With most commercial offers you are stuck building links to other related pages and hope that internal anchor text & domain authority lift the page's rankings.
Longterm from a business sustainability standpoint it is nice to have direct ad revenues not controlled by Google, but AdSense can make for some nice short-term cash flow.

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