A note of caution: Google is King. Because they are a company that owns the most popular search engine on the internet today, everybody has to answer to them. If you accept text-link ads from other companies or individuals, you better make sure whatever those text links are advertising, or even how they are advertising, complies with Google's Terms of Service, otherwise they may punish you by bumping your own search engine rankings or kicking you off Google altogether. It happened to me, and I'll talk more about that another time.
Google AdSense is also quite fussy about any suspicious activity you may have on your website. Because you get paid per click, they watch to see if you are clicking your own ads, or employing a "robot" or a "script" to click on them for you. Sometimes they accidentally accuse you and you have to fight with them to prove your innocence.
There are other options out there instead of (or in addition to) Google AdSense. Coming up next: Text-Link Ads.
Jessica is an entrepreneur raising three noisy children in the middle of potato country. A self-taught web designer who runs a web-design company, iblameher.com, with a friend, Jessica also owns and runs a business with her husband, www.verybaby.com, and maintains a shopping blog, www.tallmoms.com. She likes dark chocolate, dislikes most forms of housework, and writes about her daily life at www.kerflop.com.
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