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Because of its simplicity and user-friendliness, WordPress has become one of the most used free website builder in the web since its release in 2003. Recently, a lot of WordPress-powered site owners have discovered that when complemented with Adsense, their site becomes a powerful money generating source of steady income.

In response to the recent economic challenge and recession, people are looking for ways to earn money and the idea of earning online has become appealing to many. Attractive ideas behind having an online business includes being able to take care of your business wherever you are, and you get to have a flexible schedule, allowing you to be more in control of your time and activity.

Google Adsense: The Easiest, Most Popular Way to Earn Online

There are many ways to earn money online. However, this article will only talk about what is considered as the simplest and most practicable way to earn money online. It’s called Google Adsense.

There are basically only two things you need to be able to generate income from Google Adsense. 1. A website and 2. A Google Adsense account.  Don’t be discouraged if you think you’re not techie enough to have a website. For those who are not very savvy with HTML, CSS, and all those confusing web development lingos, there are plenty of tools that can help you set up a website without knowing programming or web design codes. There are also free short courses offered that will let you learn how to build a website from scratch in as short as one week. I would highly recommend the popular website builder WordPress if you want to create a website.

Getting a Google Adsense account is fairly easy, and it’s free. Just go to the Adsense Signup page and apply. After a successful application, Google will provide you with a code to put in your site so you can start showing Google Adsense and when people click on it, you start earning.

Technically, you can already start earning once Google Adsense is integrated with your site, but what I’m going to discuss next is how you can effectively maximize your earnings from your WordPress site with Google Adsense through a variety of Adsense-optimized WordPress themes.

One of the features I really like from WordPress is the availability of ready to install themes for all purposes. Plenty of Adsense-optimized WordPress themes are available to choose from so you don’t need to create a website from scratch. If you didn’t know HTML, CSS or web development, this feature would spare you all the trouble and frustration.

Here Is A Review Of Some Of The Most Popular Adsense-Optimized Themes And How You Can Maximize Earnings From Them:

1.             AdFlex WordPress Theme

Perhaps, the most popular approach to promoting a website in the internet today is Search Engine Optimization or more commonly known as SEO. This the process behind how a particular store comes up as the first result in search engines like Google, or Yahoo, when you search for a particular word, or phrase. That store is search engine optimized for that particular term or keyword.

What’s great about this theme is that it designed with a Search Engine Optimized structure in mind. This is a huge help in your SEO strategy in the long run and in your effort to have your site show up on the high ranks of the Search Engine Results Page (SERP).

Another interesting thing about this theme is that you can add images or graphics near the AdSense, which helps entice visitors to click on your Adsense link. However, you have to tread carefully on this one since it is against AdSense rules to place pictures near their ads that may “trick” the users into clicking them.

2.             SEO AdSense

This one is another neat and simple AdSense WordPress theme. It can provide the maximum number of AdSense units per page: 1 ad link and 3 ad blocks. However, you might want to resist the urge to bombard your pages with AdSense because it can ruin the whole experience for the users, doing more harm than good to your traffic. As the name implies, this theme is heavily search engine optimized which gives it a real advantage against other themes.

3.             ProSense

The advantage of this theme is it loads fast, thus making your visitors stay longer, and it is designed in such a way that the reader’s maximum attention is directed to your Adsense ads while maintaining as much focus on your site content as possible. It also comes with Adsense ad units with optimal placement and blending.

4.             WP Colors

Not only is this theme visually attractive, it designed with Adsense and SEO in mind. Its main advantage is the placement of its sidebar content. Most themes have their sidebar content before their main content. In this theme, the side bar information is placed AFTER the main content, making the main content processed first by search engine spiders. This makes it more advantageous for search engine searches. On top of that, it comes with 3 ad units already, and an easy to understand README file that will tell you where to put your publisher ID.

5.             Problogger Clean WordPress Theme

This theme also comes with built-in ad blocks that conforms to Google’s optimization recommendations. On top of that, it also follows the section targeting guidelines to make sure that only the actual site content is indexed for its Adsense context. This 3-columned theme also has Click Safety features that prevent you from clicking your own ads; a practice considered by many as a violation to Google AdSense rules.

All these themes I have enumerated are available from our WordPress themes resource page. If you want to make money online or simply want to spread information, you can never go wrong with WordPress: the internet’s most dependable free website builder.