What is Google AdSense?

Google AdSense is a webmaster or blog owner platform that you can use to display Google Ads on your website.

AdSense is a platform enabling website owners to accept display advertisements on their websites in return for money. AdSense matches your site’s display & text ads based on your content, and who views it. You are not giving up total control. AdSense allows you to choose the looks of the ads on your site and where they will end up.

Google AdSense is for publishers when you own or manage websites, blogs or forums and want to monetize them Google AdSense program allows you to use Ads that appear on your digital property and you can earn revenue based on the number of people viewing or engaging with those ads.

What are Google Adwords/Ads?

It can be used for advertisers with Google Ads program. Google Ads can boost your business or sales if you wish to advertise your products or services on websites or apps. Google Ads is for your ads and may appear on Google’s search results and publisher websites network.

Adwords is a Pay per Click (PPC) system which means you’re only paying for clicks on your ads and not views. Google search results show only TEXT ads. Adwords do not allow you to have AdSense on the landing page. Your ads depend on many factors such as competition, your ads’ quality score, landing page quality, bid amount, and many more, but this is something you can control and adjust through the dashboard of Adwords.

Adwords vs. AdSense

AdWords & AdSense are two separate advertising platforms that Google offers which have very different usage cases. AdWords is for advertisers, while AdSense is for proprietors of publishers or websites. You need to sign up for a separate account for each to get started using AdWords or AdSense.

Google Ads is a system that allows companies to bid for advertising space in the Google search results and other properties affiliated with Google. Google AdSense is a system that allows ad space to be sold to businesses by publishers and website owners, you should pay to use AdWords but AdSense could earn you money.

AdWords allows companies and marketers to advertise such as search, display, etc. on Google’s network. AdSense allows publishers to reserve space on their websites for AdWords placements, such as text, video, and images. AdSense pays website owners, businesses pay AdWords; Google uses AdWords to buy advertising, while Google uses AdSense to sell advertising space.