When you discover how to make money with Google Adsense, you'll love what's happening to your bank balance.
There's a learning curve involved, for sure. But once you've got that worked out, it is possible to make cash with Adsense.
The main trick is to place your Adsense adverts on sites with traffic. For most people, that's the most difficult part of the equation. Blogging regularly will help, as will contributing to forums.
Once you've got a site or a blog with some traffic, it's time to place some Adsense units on it. Choose your colors so that they blend in with the rest of your site. But don't encourage people to click on the Adsense ads - that's against the rules and will result in you getting banned from the program. This includes putting images too close to your Adsense ads (something that was advised in some earlier guides).
Your page needs to be informative and relevant to the adverts you want to see showing up. If the ads appear irrelevant, take a look at the whole of your page. This includes the title, keywords and description tags that are part of your code.
Are your titles and headings relevant? If there are any links to other pages or sites, is the text that's highlighted relevant to the ads you want to see? Could you change a few words in the body of the page to influence the kind of ads being shown? All these factors and more will affect how much money you can make with Adsense.