After creating a Blogger’s blog and Setup Adsense Account, you need to wait for Adsense to confirm/ approve your account. Once confirmed, you can start displaying Adsense ads in your blog. Here are some simple steps to display Adsense ads in Blogger’s blog:-

1. Login to your Blogger’s blog using your Gmail address and password
2. At “Dashboard”, click “Layout”
3. Click “Add a gadget”
4. Select “Adsense”
5. Choose a preferred ad format. For colours, choose “blend template”. You can see the preview of the ad below the box. Once you’re done with it, click “save”.
   
6. Save your blog. Then view your blog. You will see Adsense ads according to the format you created.
7. If you prefer the ads at other location in the blog, under Blogger – layout, drag and drop the Adsense box to your preferred location.
8. Now you can start blogging and drive traffic to your blog.

I’m recommending Blogger because it is popular and works well with many other services. It works fine with Adsense, Nuffnang, Infolinks, Windows Live Writer and there are many free templates available for download from other sites.

Here is how to start a blog at Blogger:-

1. Go to http://www.blogger.com/
   
2. Sign in with your Gmail email address and password
   
   
3. You will be directed to sign up for Blogger. Fill up Display Name and check the box if you accept the terms of service. Click “Continue”
   
   
4. Fill up title for your blog, decide a name for the blog, click “continue”
   
   
5. Choose a template (you can always change later, or download your own template later). Click “continue”
   
   
6. You can start blogging immediately! Once you click continue, you will arrive at post editing page – start blogging. To setup Adsense first, check out Setup Adsense.
   

What is Adsense? How to earn from Adsense? Adsense is a portal for advertisers to advertise and for bloggers/ website owner to display their ads in their blogs. How is bloggers earning from Adsense ads? Bloggers display Adsense ads in their blogs, visitors to their blogs look at these ads, interested and click into the ads. Adsense will record the number of clicks on ads and pay accordingly. How much per click – is up to Adsense’s discretion. They keep it confidential to prevent abuse. Success of earning in Adsense very much depends on visitors traffic.

Adsense has a strict term in prohibiting bloggers to encourage their blog visitors to click on their ads. THEY CAN TRACE THE SOURCE OF EVERY CLICK. And please do not click on ads in your own blog. You will be banned by Adsense. Instead, write good blogs to attract visitors, be hardworking to promote your blog and bring visitors to your blog. Adsense provide tips for you to enhance earnings too. They make it so easy for you to display ads in Blogger, you can choose what type of ads to put or let Adsense decide for you according to your blog content and blend the ads with your blog’s template too. So appreciate their effort and adhere to their terms of service.

Setting up Adsense may seem complicated but it is actually very easy if you follow Adsense’s instruction during setup. To speed up processing, it is preferred to already have a Gmail account and Blogger account. Otherwise you may not be able to complete the required form.

1. Login to your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com/ using your Gmail that you’ve just set up. Click “My Account” on top right corner of the page.
   
   
2. Click “Adsense” under “Try something new”
   
   
3. Then click “Sign up now”
   
   
4. Fill up the form (check out the following, if you do not have any of the info, find out first)
   • Website URL (primary blog only)
   • Select a language
   • Check “I will not place ads on sites that include incentives to click on ads”
   • Check “I will not place ads on sites that include pornographic content”
   • Select account type (individual/ business)
   • Select a country or territory
   • Payee Name (full name to appear on paycheck)
   • Address
   • Check “I agree that I can receive checks made out to the payee name I have listed above
   • Telephone number
   • Check all their policies (please read and adhere to it)
   • Click “Submit Information”
     
5. A page with all the information you keyed in will be displayed. Check that the information is correct, if INCORRECT click “Back”.
   
6. If you already have Gmail, click the first radio button for the first question, if not click the second – you will be asked to create a new Google Account.
   
7. If you choose first radio button, you will be asked whether you’d like to use your existing account for Adsense or choose a new login and and password just for Adsense. It is up to you to decide.
   
8. If you choose to use existing account for Adsense, you need to login (enter your Blogger login email and password, click “continue”)
   
9. Your application will be submitted for review and you will receive their reply in 1 – 2 days. In the final page, there are help options where you can learn to activate Adsense.

You only need to setup one Adsense account even if you have more than one blog. If you are setting up blogs using different Blogger account, you can still use the same Adsense account. Login to your second Blogger account as usual and display Adsense ads. You will be asked to create new Adsense account or use existing Adsense account. Adsense will send an email to your primary email address and asked for your verification. Once you verified that the second Blogger account is yours and grant permission, the Adsense ads in your second Blogger account will be “activated” – clicks earned from these ads will go to the same Adsense account.

You will need a credit card to verify your account but it is FREE to use their service to receive payments. You can still create PayPal account without credit card to receive money but there may be limitations as to maximum amount you can receive or limited withdrawal options. After creating PayPal account, it would be wise to send them an enquiry or call their centre to confirm. Each country may have different terms. Then, be sure to log in and log out PROPERLY. I once got my PayPal account suspended because I’ve kept on logging in and logging out, testing this and that – their security is tight and suspected my account being hacked so I need to submit my latest credit card statement in order to re-activate it.

Here’s how to set up a PayPal account to receive money:

1. Go to http://www.paypal.com/. You will immediately be asked to select your country and language.
   
   
2. Click “Sign Up” at the bottom of member login area or on top right corner of the page.
   
   
3. Select “Premier” account (it is still FREE – please read updates from PayPal with regards to its recent amendment on certain transaction policies)
   
   
4. Fill up your details (it is Ok to skip the credit card details, you can always fill in later). Click “I agree, create my account”
   
   
5. You’re done. If you did not key in credit card details, you will be directed to the following page. Ignore it and click “Go to My Account”
   
   
6. You will see a brand new account – empty with 0.00 amount. At the notification box located on the right column, PayPal will ask you to confirm your email (click and follow the instruction to confirm you email address), link and confirm credit card (click this and follow the instruction when you are ready to link your credit card), finally read the policy updates.
   
   
7. Basically, your PayPal account is READY TO RECEIVE PAYMENT :)
8. Next, learn how to register for a free blog at Blogger.com

You can skip this step if you already have an email account with Gmail. But I would still recommend you create a new one that you will use solely for blogging purpose. Would it be too lazy if I say: go to http://www.gmail.com/, click “create new account” and follow instructions? Lol! I guess so. But if you’re still not sure, I compiled a brief guidelines too:-

1. Go to http://www.gmail.com/. Click on “create new account” on the right bottom corner.
   
2. Fill up the form, read the terms and conditions and click “I accept. Create my account.”
   
3. You’ll get a screen telling you the account is created. Click “Show me my account”.
   

Voila! Your account is ready to use. Next, create a PayPal account – this one more complicated steps.

If you are new to blogging, you may find these info useful. They are meant to provide a step-by-step and easy to understand guide from creating blog to generating revenues from your blog. The setup needs less than an hour to finish. If you are already an expert blogger, feel free to leave me your comment.

To start blogging, think of a niche – what would you like to blog about? Something that you can keep blogging about. Some people tend to blog about themselves. I’m not saying this is something bad but people are looking for INFORMATION on internet (are you not?). So they would hope to find something useful in your blog. However, you can still get your friends and family (those interested in you) to read a blog about yourself but you can barely earn much from there. You can do that as a beginning in your blogging venture and slowly determine your own niche to blog about. If you decided to create another blog about other things (like food recipe etc) you can always add a link to your initial “about yourself” blog.

This is how you get started:-

1. Register a Gmail account at http://www.gmail.com/
2. Register a PayPal account at http://www.paypal.com/ (need a credit card for verification although this account is meant to receive money only)
3. Register a free domain name at http://www.blogger.com/ (use your Gmail account to login)
4. Setup Adsense account
5. Place Adsense ads in your blog
6. Signup for Nuffnang account
7. Place Nuffnang ads in your blog
8. Signup for Infolinks account
9. Text links will automatically appear when your blog is approved
10. Optional – download Windows Live Writer (an amazing blog writing tool!)

Start blogging! But look at some tips to drive traffic to your blog beforehand!