If you are looking to make decent income online, then chances are good that you have heard about the Google AdSense opportunity. It is so popular (especially among those new to internet marketing) because of its simplicity. If you can write, then you can make money with AdSense. And the income will be passive and will last for as long as your site or blog does.

Now I hope that the words "blog" or "site" doesn't scare you. In the past, you had to have a high degree of coding knowledge in order to set up and maintain a website or blog. But things are different now. Currently, you just have to fill out a few forms and click on some of your preferences, and your site or blog is all set up and ready for you to add your content. And there's very little (if any) further maintenance on your part. You just fill in your title and your content, hit the "publish" button and the script creates and uploads the new page or post for you. Very easy stuff we are talking about.

It's also a snap to add the required AdSense code. Most sites and blogs use a "widget" system. Basically, you add whatever you want into the widget (like your specific AdSense code), choose where you want the widget to appear on the page, and the script takes care of the rest. And that's it. The great thing with AdSense is that it will "read" the content of your site or blog, and then display the most relevant advertisements. Whenever someone that visits your site or blogs clicks on one of those ads, you get paid. Nothing major, but if you get enough people to your digital real estate, those small commissions can add up to a nice paycheck.

So as you see, creating and running a blog or website to place your AdSense ads is not difficult. And marketing is even easier. If can be as simple as writing and submitting 400 word articles. It costs no money to do this and you have thousands of article directories available to choose from. Many people over complicate the article marketing process and in doing so, they end up not taking any action. This is a shame because for the 30 minutes it may take you to write and submit an article, you'll have a marketing "robot" that will work for you for years to come. Let me explain.

When you write and submit an article to an article directory, you have the ability to include an author resource box with it. This resource box is your opportunity to talk about you and your blog/site, as well as leaving a link back to it. Once the article is published, it will provide you with visitors. This could be tomorrow, a month from now, even years down the road. Its online 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year. I'm still amazed when I receive traffic from articles that I published in 2007. That's why I call it a marketing robot.

If you want to make money with AdSense, you need to get as many of these marketing robots working for you as possible. In terms of the amount of time it takes to write and publish and article, compared to the amount of return you will get back for years to come, you can see why many people who make money with AdSense using articles as a cornerstone of their marketing efforts.