Adsense is all the rage now, and there are so many different ways to make money from Adsense, but here is a method you've probably not tried and most people probably won't as it does take effort and time.
Most people seem to want to keep switching from automatic software generators to bombs to portal sites to directory listing sites, which is fine, but I have and always will stick to creating unique content that's informative and of high quality.
My method is not the only way to make money with Adsense, but I feel this is the best method for long term success, simply because it's been working well for me in different ways since I began Internet marketing back in 1998.
This is a business idea that I'm doing right now and I believe it will make me a fortune in the long run.
What I've been doing is creating a site like Ehow.com. It's a free site that shows people how to do a lot of different things. The best way to explain the site is just for you to go have a quick look now.
They have thousands and thousands of pages of content on all sorts of subjects and the way they get traffic to their site is through the search engines, which is all well and good if you want to wait awhile, but this guide is all about making money quickly.
Every page on their site has an adsense box on it and that's how they make their money. They also have an Alexa traffic ranking of around 2000 which is great.
Trying to write that much content before making any money would be difficult, you'd lose interest quickly and trying to write that much content or even buy that much content in one hit would be lunacy.
I've always preferred to make money constantly even if the project is only half done or in progress. I find it gives me incentive to keep going.
So this is what I'm doing, and no I'm not going to show you my site because I don't want everyone copying it.
I registered a catchy domain name, something like fiveminuteguides.com or learnitnow.com and I started writing little 500 to 750 word action plans on all sorts of topics and one happens to be on a favorite subject of mine, fly fishing.
So my fly fishing page looks something like http://www.fiveminuteguides.com/flyfishing.html and it's a small 750 check list on all things to do with fly fishing with 2 Adsense boxes, one in the middle and one of the right hand side.
When it comes to Adsense, you have to think like your website visitor. What is it they are looking to buy? There is no use putting something on my website about how to make money with your fly fishing passion because the advertisers with Adsense are selling fly fishing equipment not how to make money with fly fishing.
You need to make your content fit into the Adsense ads and I think that's where a lot of people go wrong with Adsense.
Back to the business plan. Ok, so you've got your site up, you have a page up on a certain topic that had a fairly high search rate and Adsense payout rate, now what? How do you make money with this page.
Write articles! For every one fly fishing type checklist write 10 to 20 articles on all sorts of subjects to do with your topic. I wrote close to 40 for mine and I havn't become rich from it but if I can put up 500 similar checklists in the next year I will be earning a very nice income.
But how do you get people from reading your article to going to your website?Well, not only would you mention your site within your article, (slip it in subtley) you also have your article byline you can use for that purpose.
For exampleSo not only will you make money instantly from your website, you will also build tons of quality content over time and you will have hundreds maybe even thousands of articles all over the Internet working for you around the clock and your site will do a heck of a lot better in the search engines due to all the incoming links!
This is a very rough outline, but you smart people out there will be able to run with it and add new ideas I havn't even thought of. This is one of those money machines that will make you money on demand pretty much for the life of the Internet.