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If you blog, Darren has some tips for you.

Inside AdSense is official AdSense blog, where you can find latest developments about AdSense.

You can get help of other AdSense pulishers at AdSense Help Group.

If you are serious about making money from AdSense, get Joel’s AdSense Secrets.

Don’t put too many ad blocks on your site. Find out the highest CTR block and remove the others. Few clicks on the 1$ ads are better than many clicks on the 3-cent-ads.

Experiment, experiment, and experiment. You can never stop trying for new ad format. Even if you think you can’t improve anymore, one slight change might increase your earning significantly.

Remove the “Advertise on this site” from your AdSense block until your site is big enough to attract real advertisers. This will help to clear off many MFA (made-for-adsense) sites. You can disable it from AdSense account setting.

Use AdSense Preview Tool to test the ads that will appear on your site. You can click on ads in the AdSense preview tool, as the advertisers are not charged from it.

AdSense uses geo-location to deliver advertisement. So, what you see on your site might not be what your visitors see. Use AdSense Preview Tool to view your AdSense advertisement displayed for visitors from other places.

Use AdSense Competitive Ads Filter to remove scrapper sites ads. Scrapper sites are sites without real content. They are either link farms, content theft, or meta search engine.

Use AdSense Competitive Ads Filter to remove irrelevant ads.

AdsBlackList.com have good list of URLs to block. Try it.

Try variations of AdSense colors, format, position on different pages to make it more unpredictable for your visitors.

Learn some CSS.

If you are putting multiple ads block on your website: put most clicked block to appear first in the HTML. Higher position in HTML = higher paying ads. You can do this using CSS.

Try to put contents on different subject topics. If it can draw visitors, write more on that topic.

If you have dynamic pages, use htaccess rewrite rule to make it appear as static, e.g. http://www.hundredtips.com/100-google-adsense-tips.html instead of http://www.hundredtips.com/?p=6.

Validate your site HTML and CSS.

Break your long articles to few short articles; this way the users are exposed to the ads for more times.

Keep each article focused on one topic.

Watch your statistics and pay attention to articles that bring in visitors.

Write more articles within the subject that attract visitors.

Web-savvy visitors are less inclined to click on ads.

Have patience. You need time to build the traffic, and to optimize it.

Think long-term. Analise what your visitors need, provide value and good experience to visitors.

Consider buying websites. If you do it right, you can get back your investment in a relatively short time.

Watch your AdSense earning. Notify AdSense Team if you find anything suspicious. Your competitors might try to sabotage your account, or your well-meaning friend keep on clicking on the ads thinking they are helping you.

Use Google AdSense section targeting to help AdSense deliver more relevant ads.

Use AdSense Alternate Ads in case if AdSense can’t find any relevant ads.

Use rotating color ads. It keeps your visitors from getting AdSense blind.

Try other contextual advertising networks too. Yahoo Publisher Network is still in beta and only available in U.S., or you can try Clicksor, Bidvertising, etc. Just make sure you don’t put the on the same page with the AdSense.

You can put your clickbank, amazon, or other affiliate links on the same page with AdSense. You can also put other advertising network, so long as it is not contextual ads. Try Chitika, and disable the contextual ads option.

If you don’t follow the Terms and Conditions, your AdSense account will be disabled and you’ll get banned for life.

If you didn’t do anything wrong and your AdSense account is disabled: write them a polite and professional email, be patient and be persistent. Offer them your server logs to prove your innocence.

Spread the links to your website: put it on your email signature, put comment on blogs, participate in your niche forums.

Promote your articles in social bookmarking sites: del.icio.us, digg, reddit are good start.

Provide ?Email a Friend? option to visitors.

Familiarize yourself with AdSense earning report. It can help you determine where your money is from, and optimize accordingly.

Offer newsletters for visitors. It give you chance to get the visitors back regularly.

On AdSense support page, you can find almost every information you need about AdSense.