Adsense Questions

[Mac100x]

Hi everyone, I am new to the blogging world and started writing a blog I made about 1 month ago. Now I heard about this program called Google Adsense and I had some questions I wanted to ask.

1. Are we allowed to use any third party apps on our blog if we are running adsense? (Like a shoutbox and flag counter?)
2. I wanted to know how strict is adsense? Before I join this program I want to learn about how other people's experience was and etc. because I don't want to get banned.
3. Do you have to pay taxes if you live outside the U.S?
4. I was wondering how much money can a new blogger make out of adsense?

Thank You

[pcsourcepoint]

I have added other ads (affiliates), widgets, etc. But not too many, as can slow loading times, and not "too" commercial.

But I would add adsense at least a month after your blog is created, at that you have at 6 - 10 posts, and visitors. Otherwise Google will put your blog back in the search results for several months - making it difficult for searchers to find your blog (I know - happened to me). Also likely to get very low paying ads served up, if add adsense too soon.

Don't know about taxes outside USA. Need to check/visit your tax department for clarification...

For making adequate money - depends on what niche (if popular/high paying ads), ad placement optimization, content quality, and probably other factors...

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by Mac100x

Hi everyone, I am new to the blogging world and started writing a blog I made about 1 month ago. Now I heard about this program called Google Adsense and I had some questions I wanted to ask.

1. Are we allowed to use any third party apps on our blog if we are running adsense? (Like a shoutbox and flag counter?)
2. I wanted to know how strict is adsense? Before I join this program I want to learn about how other people's experience was and etc. because I don't want to get banned.
3. Do you have to pay taxes if you live outside the U.S?
4. I was wondering how much money can a new blogger make out of adsense?

Thank You

Google will pay money directly into your bank account each month provided you have made enough money to reach the minimum payment amount

I'm sure you will have to pay tax, as it's "earned" money

You can ask around the forums, how much people are earning with adsense, for your niche - what you want to know is the eCPM - which is the amount earned per 1,000 ad impressions - a well established site in a high paying niche such as finance, pays about US $25 eCPM

High eCPM sites have two things in common:
1/ they are in a high CPC niche
2/ the visitors they are sending to the adwords advertiser's sites are performing the required "action" such as buying stuff, signing up for a newsletter, or whatever - if the visitors you send don't do this, then your site will be "smart priced" by google, and you'll only earn a few cents per adsense click

[DavidB]

I think you are allowed to have widgets and affiliate programs on a page with AdSense, but not ads from another PPC service, like Microsoft's version of AdSense. (But why would you want to anyhow?)

Legally, you are supposed to declare all income; however, I don't think Google reports income to the governments of recipients outside the US. When you sign up for an AdSense account, you have to specify if you are a US citizen or not. If you are a US citizen, you have to fill in a (W-9?) tax form. If you are not a US citizen, that is as far as their questioning goes. So I am assuming Google does not bother sending earnings reports to Revenue Canada. Most AdSense earners don't make enough to bother with anyhow. Even eBay sellers have had a free ride up to now. It has only been in the past year that Revenue Canada went after eBay to divulge their list of power sellers. I doubt it is worth their time to go after the smaller sellers.

In any case, I wouldn't worry about it until you actually start making significant amounts of money from AdSense.

[Mac100x]

Thanks, everyone for the replies and all the help!

[saggz]

how does google check accuracy?

[Mac100x]

saggz- you mean like traffic and people coming to your site? There is a program called google analytics and it's free, it keeps track of all the people coming to your site.

[InfoHelper]

Originally Posted by saggz

how does google check accuracy?

They use IP tracking and such. Google sees all