AdSense Earning = Impression-count x Click-though-rate x Cost-per-click x smart-pricing-factor.

Impression count is basically referring to your traffic. It means the number of times AdSense block is displayed.

Click-through-rate (CTR) is ratio of clicks per impressions. It can range from 0.1% to 30%, but most commonly around 1% to 10%.

Cost-per-click (CPC) is the earning you get per click. While traditionally it refers to the amount advertisers pay for each click, it can also mean the amount publishers get for each click.

Smart-pricing is AdSense method to determine how valuable clicks from your site is worth. If clicks on your site doesn’t provide good value to advertisers, e.g. from visitors’ geo-location that seldom translate to sales, you will only get a fraction of the supposed CPC.

Apply for AdSense account via blogger.com for faster approval.

Once you get your AdSense publisher code, you can put it any of your websites without requiring further approval.

Read and reread Google AdSense Program Policies and Terms and Conditions.

Don’t click on your own ads, or ask people to click, even if you are using proxies.

Don’t use click-bots.

Don’t encourage your visitors to click on ads. The only acceptable text is “Sponsored Links” and “Advertisements”.

Don’t put competitor contextual ads on the same page as your AdSense, for example: Yahoo Publisher Network, Clicksor. Non-contextual ads are ok.

Don’t put your ads on objectionable material, e.g. adult sites, gambling sites, mp3, etc.

Basically, don’t cheat AdSense. Google will catch you, sooner or later.

Viewing your on website will not get you banned. Just make sure you don’t click on the ads.

However, repeatedly reload your page to jack up page impressions can get you banned.

When in doubt don’t hesitate to contact the AdSense team. They are very helpful.

Choose a high paying niche without too much competition.

You can try highest paying keywords from cwire.org, but know before-hand that you’ll face very fierce competitions.

Use Overture Bid Tool and Search Engine Keyword Tool to find suitable keyword.

Consider signing-up for AdWords and create a mini campaign. It can help you to understand the working of AdSense.

Put your targeted-keyword on Page Title.

Repeat the keywords in your content.

Learn HTML.

Put emphasis around your keywords by using HTML tags like

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Get domain name that contains your targeted keyword.

Submit your website to directories for inclusion, e.g. dmoz.org, yahoo directories

Submit your URL to search engines for crawling.

Create and submit your sitemaps to Google Sitemap (sitemap.xml) and Yahoo (urllist.txt)

Google is not the only search engine. Optimize for different engines as well. You are very likely to face less competition than in Google.

Invest for original fresh content. Write or pay for contents regularly.

Use copyscape.com to find content theft. You invest for your content. Don’t let it be taken by unscrupulous webmasters.

Article marketing is one of the best way to deliver traffic to your site. Write and submit articles to article-submission sites. Include short summary and hyperlinks to your website in the author information box.

Don’t use objectionable methods to draw visitors to your site; buying traffics, spyware, hidden-texts, page cloaking etc will get your AdSense account terminated.

New visitors have higher chance to click on the ads than regular visitors, thus higher CTR (click-through rate).

Regular visitors have higher chance to recommend your site to others.

Search engines are where most of your new visitors come from. Learn a bit about Search Engine Optimization, or pay people to do it. Doing it yourself will save yourself from troubles created by not-so-honorable SEO (Search Engine Optimizer).

Don’t create mirrors. These are sites with different URLs but same contents. It hurts search engine ranking.

Its easier to create many websites with low earning than few websites with high earning.

Forum generally have high impressions count, but very low CTR.