Previously we spoke about what is Adsense and how you could register your own account to start using the service, we will know talk about how to login to your account and be able to create adverts for your site and begin earning money from it.
Getting Started with Adsense
If you load the following url:
https://www.google.com/adsense/
You should now be able to login to your account, when you do so you will see a page showing reports upon your accounts earnings, as your account is new this will be plain.
If you click the tab "Adsense Setup" and then "Adsense for Content" link then you are now in the wizard that we use to create new adverts.
On the first page you have the options of either using an Ad Unit or Link Unit, the Ad Unit will show adverts that are relevant to the content within your site and you may also choose whether you want images or text adverts. The Link Unit will display links relevant to other sites with similarly related content. It's usually better to choose the Ad Units as they're more likely to be clicked in most occasions.
Continuing onto the next page of the wizard gives us the options to choose how we wish our adverts to look, you can change the size, colours, edges and fonts used within, this section is self explanatory.
The next section of the wizard is choosing the channel for your adverts, this is important because if your running adverts on more than one site they you will wish to
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