Adsense is not a get rich quick scheme

Posting to message boards, comments, article writing, social bookmarking, link exchange, good content, good meta tags, one way linking ect?

All the things mention above are a waste of time.

All you need is a site that has real value. Ones that people go "wow" and link to and bookmark.
No amount of messing with technicalities will work. Sticking ads on thousands of pages of "articles" will not help much. If there are already sites with similar info then unless yours is totally head and shoulders above the best of the rest then you can forget it.

Earn the huge figures from adsense its not easy but you can earn much more than your monthly figures from your day job without ever updating or adding to a page.

You need that something special in the same way that a best selling writer in the real world has over all the dusty unsold books in the back of the store.

If the site(s) are the interlinked blogged ones with no "real" content other than copied and pasted wiki stuff chasing the likes of Mesothelioma (and every other supposed high paying keyword) ones in your profile I am very surprised you make as much as you do! Nothing original there!

I suggest, you create a "unique" site and talk about something you enjoy. It will take a few years before your site get popular but through hard work, it will pay off.

With Adsense, you can able to buy a house, a car, and a great job I could never asked for. You can wake up happy and excited to update your site everyday. And you don't even think how much you can earn with Adsense. You just love what you do. Of course, getting paid for it is not bad. Not bad at all.

Don't lose hope. Remember, do something you enjoy on the web. It may be photography, blogging, funny stories, cars... choose what you love best.

Same thing when you watch a movie. When a friend of mine saw a particular movie he likes, he recommends it to me. And i, in return, will go see the movie. Then I talk to my other friends about it and he goes to see the movie too.. so it goes..

When your site is that good, your visitors will talk about it in other forums, chatrooms, or their friends at school.

I think to make any decent amount of money with Adsense (or worse, affiliates), you have to dedicate the same time and energy as if you had a second partial time job. Learn as much as if you were taking a few courses in college. And do it for a year or two on meager web revenues.

You're right, it takes some talent to either program something useful and original, or write some great content. But also a lot more.

If you have compelling content that people need in their daily lives the only thing you need to do is work on traffic and AdSense optimization, those are the only two secrets.

HOWEVER, if you're really passionate about the topic, and the site is killer, and you have solid and loyal traffic, you could rock out with AdSense.

Learn about what your site is about instead, immerse yourself in it, become an expert and share your expertise, get people involved, coming back for more, telling their friends, linking to you.
It boils down to bums on seats - if a site is not a quality one with compelling content its market is self-limiting and so is its income.

And you learn what is best practices when using AdSense... placement of ads... use of code to contcentrate the right ads, etc.

You need to build real sites with real content and get links, links, links (the right links) pointing to them.

Adsense Economics 101

more unique content = more adsense dollars

poor content + excessive marketing spend = fewer adsense dollars

Sites good, interesting and unique enough to encourage revisits, bookmarks and backlinks will (almost) always trump sites with average content, forgettable style, and poor content:ad ratio.

On the other hand there are many, many so-called experts telling/selling people the 'secrets' to getting rich quick on AdSense, and apparently there is a virtually endless market for their predictable and simplistic nonsense about focusing on high paying keywords.

Focus on what you know, focus on where you can add value, focus on what is interesting to you and to your users.

What you need is content that stands on its merits and performs day in day out. So that the people who click through once from a forum post see something they like, come back, link to you, recommend your site etc.

Create a fantastic free resource and give it away. It could be a program, some cool CSS, templates, a video ... a million other things. But they've got to be exceptional, different, newsworthy, clickworthy...

Become an expert in some niche, give your advice away, appear on radio shows, do interviews.

Hire people to write content for you. A little research should find you good writers at fairly affordable prices. Write unique stuff, compile volumes of really useful information, make your info so good that the relevant Wikipedia pages look like a crap, down market rip-off. Then spend money to get your site noticed enough for the links to snowball.

But with the right type of website, proper optimization and presentation of the ads, and good amount of traffic, you can earn a lot from Adsense even with only 1 website.

Start something that's up and coming. How about a site (blog) on hybrid cars. they are popular and will likely only increase in popularity. My knowledge of them ends at the Prius, but you could be an expert. Show pictures of the new ones coming up, write about trends, test drive some at the dealership (might be good source for info as well) and give some reviews.

Example

Heres a clue...

You want to advertise your combined harvester site with adwords.

Or

You want to advertise your dvd site on adwords.

So...

Now how many combined harvester sites that are info rich and full of real tests reviews and in depth experience and knowledge are there out there to advertise on? Very few! And its a huge profit margin item so the advertiser can afford a at very least a few dollars a lead! And there are only a few thousand sites with the search "combined harvester review". Most of which are forums, junk pages, business directories etc

You stand to be 1 on google search results if you know MORE about theswe things than any other website and have good incomming links because of it. Problem is that in this case its unlikely that you know enough to produce a winning site unless you spent your life working with and repairing them. That site will make good money.

How many DVD review sites are there? Millions... Anyone can make one of those... and thats exactly what happens. Now ads are cheap! Masses of inventory! And a low budget/markup item. And you have to get traffic to your dvd adsense site when there are 221.000,000 pages found for DVD Review! Now you wont make much with a dvd review site will you.

So its like this. You have to have something to give that isnt already out there that stands head and shoulders above what anyone else can do. Or an idea that offers something that is new and useful. Etc.

Writing thousands of "articles" that nobody wants about stuff thats already out there is useless and hard work.

If you dont know enough to do the combined harvester example then basically you are not going to make loads of money because you have nothing to give!

No amount of explaining why what I or others that do "get it" do seems to filter through! Real interesting unique content is all that matters. And content isnt just some words you added once the site was built...

But all of that stuff is unimportant. Only the strength of content or idea matters to the readers. In fact not looking slick helps if anything as people can see its real and not computer generated crap.

If web content is king then web design is the queen. A shallow site won't fool anybody but on the other hand, a plain looking site faces a serious challenge in being accepted. Alot of webmasters use both measures to decide whether or not to link to a site. Given the same quality of content, a nice looking site will get more links than a plain one.

I'm sure there are other examples and yes, these are anomolies but it just goes to show that sometimes the "me too" sites become the main players.