Adsense is probably the way that most people use to monetize their sites and blogs. However, many people claim that it is virtually impossible to make good money with it. Of course this is just another statement by someone who don't know how adsense works.

Adsense is a program that can be treated wrong in many different ways. Actually, most people treat it very wrong. They think that adsense can be put on every blog or site and will start making good money. I wish it was that easy.

What most people don't understand is that adsense is a program developed by Google FOR Google and the advertisers to make money. The publishers are just a way for them to get faster to their goals.

Google has made adsense into a very smart machine. It only displays certain ads on pages that are relevant to the ads themselves. This makes visitors more likely to click an ad and more likely to buy something when they have clicked. Priority on for Google is to keep the advertisers happy.

What a lot of people don't understand is that every keyword pay according to the competition for that specific keyword. This makes writing for fun, if you want to make money, pointless. This is what the newbies do, and it makes no money 100% of the time.

If they are so lucky that they actually manage to get a click on one of their ads, they get payed at most $0.05. This is because untargeted blogging is something that the advertiser don't pay much for.

There are a few simple steps that you can take to avoid being put in the same category as these newbies, and make some money with adsense.

The most important thing you need to do is to check if your keywords actually pay good money and if it has any traffic. Use the adwords keyword tool to do this job.

The second step you have to take is to make sure that you have targeted traffic. Traffic from the search engines is the best by far. Simple SEO techniques can get you higher rankings for your keywords.

The third step is to stop hunting the social traffic. Avoid getting traffic from sites such as facebook, twitter, digg, etc. The only thing it will do for your adsense is to get it smart priced. Make sure that your site has about 70% of its traffic from the search engines before you add adsense to it.