1. Remember: Adsense doesn't make you money; traffic makes you money

2. Write posts that link to good content on higher-ranked sites in your niche. If your traffic is low, click on those links yourself - webmasters will take notice.

3. Post on forums in your niche and add your site to your signature

4. Submit articles to article directories

5. Use Technocratic Tags

6. Submit your best articles to Digg and Del.icio.us

7. Comment on other blogs with similar themes to yours

8. Become a regular on several similarly-themed blogs you like

9. Use Google Sitemaps

10. Write about well-known people in your niche

11. Use a blogroll, but only add sites that you would really recommend. Less is more.

12. Read Go sense

13. Remember: Good content + good advertising = traffic

14. Choose a niche you're passionate about

15. Post/write an article/add content every day

16. Make your content unique and useful

17. Be timely: break news, comment on new information, become a valuable source of interesting new stuff.

18. Be yourself. If you're funny, be funny; if you're not, don't try to be. Be confident that your personality will draw like-minded readers.

19. If you can't think of anything interesting to post about, find something interesting to post about.

20. If you can't find anything interesting to post about, keep looking.

21. You just read something interesting that has nothing to do with your site's theme. Find a way to make it relevant. Use it as an example or integrate it into a story. Use it.

22. Read Copy blogger, and Problogger

23. Remember: Traffic + Adsense = Money - So don't get kicked out

24. Read the Adsense TOS and don't break it

25. While you're at it, read all the Adsense guides Google provides

26. Do NOT encourage readers to click Adsense ads

27. If you're placing a picture specifically to subtly draw attention to Adsense Ads, make sure the ads are clearly distinguished from the image (borders or a line between the two)

28. If you're unsure if your ads comply with the Adsense TOS, ask them for a review

29. Better yet, design your ad concept on a hidden page and have Google review it first.

30. Remember: Traffic + Adsense optimization = More Money

31. Study the Google Heat map

32. Place site-relevant pictures near your ads

33. Color images are often better than black-and-white

34. Animations are lame

35. Integrate your ads with your site design

36. Place ads between blog posts

37. Place ads in blog posts

38. Consider borderless Adsense ads

39. Use wide ad formats

40. Be Patient: Time , trial and error are what you need to succeed

41. Give your Adsense implementation a few weeks (at least) before drawing any conclusions.

42. Use channels. You are going to want to know which ads are being clicked and which aren't.

Before looking at AdSense, I feel that it is necessary to give a brief description of pay per click advertising. The biggest and most powerful ppc system is called Google AdWords.

AdWords

You will have seen AdWords in action before. They are those little text ads that appear down the right hand side of Google's search results. They are an amazingly powerful method of advertising. The ads you see are 100% related to the keywords that you type into a search. This means, that as an AdWords advertiser you are capable of displaying your ads in front of an audience that is already interested in your products or services. Never before have businesses been able to conduct their advertising in such a highly targeted manner.