Getting to Know the AdSense Family

Google AdSense is actually seven products in one—AdSense for Content, Search, Feeds, Mobile, Domains, Video, and Games. We’ll look at each product individually.

AdSense for Content

The main component of the AdSense program, and the one you’re probably using, is dubbed AdSense for Content, or AFC. This is the product that puts ads on your web pages and then generates revenue whenever visitors click on the ad links. We’ll talk about AFC a lot throughout this book.

AdSense for Search

Then there’s AdSense for Search (AFS), which lets you add a Google search box to your website or blog and make money from it. A search box is a good thing, in and of itself, because it keeps users on your site longer; they don’t have to leave your site to conduct a web search. It’s also nice in that it’s another way to generate revenues because you earn ad revenue when a visitor clicks through an ad on your site’s search results page.