One of the things I love the most about AdSense is that anyone can benefit from it. You don’t need to have an advanced degree in computing to put an AdSense unit on a website and get a check from Google.

You just need to have a website.

Until recently though, you did need to have some knowledge of computers to build that site.

Blogging changed all that. Now you can be online with your own site in less than five minutes. You’ll still have to create content and generate traffic. And the AdSense approval process can take a day or two. But you’ll be online and that’s a huge boost. In fact, blogging is probably the most common way that many people now earn from AdSense.

But it doesn’t have to be. There are still lots of other ways that you can put AdSense units in front of users and earn from the clicks.

Online magazines, for example, can be a lot of fun to put together especially if your magazine is on a topic you genuinely care about. The articles work best when they’re more in-depth than a blog post, and especially when they contain quotes from experts, but you don’t have to write them all yourself. In fact, you’ll probably find that lots of people will want to contribute in return for nothing more than a link and a bit of publicity.

That’s true too of a review site and because they’re about products, they can deliver great clickthroughs. Just pick your topic and ask for contributions.

And even a small business site can include articles that earn from AdSense. Extra pages of content related to your business can help with marketing and keyword advertising but there’s no reason they shouldn’t pay their way too.
 
While blogging may be a very easy way to earn from AdSense, if it’s not your thing, don’t worry. There are still plenty of other ways to become an online publisher.