How technology is gradually changing lives

Sunday, November 11, 2007

AdSense Resurrected

If you've read such books as "The 4-Hour Workweek" you'll know that there are alternatives to having to lease out your life's valuable hours to others in order for you to make enough money to live on. In a way, it is something that independent business-owners, writers and people such as pop stars have learned.

For the rest of us, though, it is difficult to drop our hourly-paid work and move over to the new model of getting paid multiple times for something that we only do once.

I have found a way...it's called AdSense.

You set up websites or blogs that specialize in one or more subjects and install Google AdSense on them. By attracting people looking for your particular subject(s) and having Google place advertising on your website or blog, you can get paid small amounts each time the ads are clicked on. When you have a number of sites or particularly interesting subjects attracting lots of clicks, you get paid pretty well - all the time being able to continue your day job. If you make enough part-time doing this, you might consider making it your main source of income.