I keep getting all these questions about how to make money online. Well to tell you the truth if I had to start all over again I would start by targeting a niche that I am passionate about and monetize it with AdSense - Yes Adsense. There is still a ton of money in Adsense regardless of what anyone says or what you hear. I know this is a fact. I bet you its probably easier and more profitable than ever right now. Google has implemented click fraud prevention, is still the top contexual advertising network serving very relevant ads and has added a couple of new features. I keep getting stories of how other people got their adsense accounts banned and even on Christmas Day which sucks but there are simple and effective ways to prevent your account from being banned.

1. The number one rule is this -never tell anyone (not even your family or friends or co-workers) about your sites or about AdSense.

2. Install Asrep or a similar click monitoring program to monitor your adsense clicks after you get a around $10 a day adsense earnings or even sooner if you told people about your sites with adsense. I know people who are already getting click frauded when their adsense earnings are just around $20 a day. No Joke. I highly recommend setting your Asrep to send you an email alert for 6 clicks in one hour with the same IP. Whenever you receive a click fraud alert, contact Google immediately that you have a click fraud monitor program and alert them of the suspicious activity and that you can provide the log if they require it. I have heard that Google does not reply to these emails sometime but they do take off the invalid clicks from your account and deduct the invalid earnings. Once you start hitting over $100 a day, I recommend getting another copy of asrep or installing it on a separate server because the logs and processing gets really big and hard to handle on a shared server. At our prime we were getting over 30K adsense clicks a day. At this level you should really think about getting a dedicated person or management service to monitor your account. Also you may be contacted by an Adsense representative who will try to “help” you. Try to stay in at least weekly contact with this Google adsense Representative and tell him all your sites and where you get your traffic from. Also tell him your goals with your sites and adsense.

3. NEVER log into your Adsense account on a PC that you do not own and never log in when you are not at your “home” ip. The home ip is the address you created the account on and where you usually check your stats. NEVER log in when you are at work.

4. DO not create another Adsense account. DO not create a LLC or company just to get another adsense account. Having multiple adsense accounts just gives you a FALSE sense of security. Google knows everything you are doing and can tie accounts together in a click of a button. If they link 1 account to click fraud, ALL of your accounts will be disabled. Regardless of whether or not they are owned and operated by different corporations or individuals.

5. Read the TOS and keep up to date with the changes.

6. If you are new to Adsense, the best adsense ads to use are 336×280 box ads near the Top- Left of your sites with the colors blended to match your site.  You can try other ad types but I found that these box ads have the highest CTRs and brought in about 40% of the total adsense revenue.

7. In order to really make it big with adsense you need a lot of pages in your site. Your site also needs to be themed and all of the pages need to be optimized for adsense revenue (high ctr was what we focused on). In the beginning it was very easy to get top search rankings for almost any keyword and theme. It is tougher now but can still be done.

8. Theming was key for our sites because they make your visitors “stick” and read multiple pages and subsequently click on multiple ads. It also helps for them to add to favorites for future browsing and research and of course more revenue. A simple left menu with navigation to all the top themes of our site and sometimes display of sub topic is what we find to be the most effective. Ads on the right and on the bottom get very low ctrs and are best for CPM ads to maximize for revenue.

9. When buying domains, spend the extra cash to make them private. Host them on a shared servers so that whenever someone does a reverse ip check they see a bunch of shared sites and most of them will not be yours. This will prevent haters from seeing all your sites. I highly recommend Hostgator for your server hosting. At the “baby” level it’s just $7.95 and currently a coupon code “snowman” will give you 20% off. This server package can be used to host all your sites - it allows for unlimited domain names. I think it’s a real bargin.

10. Never give up. Making money with adsense if the easiest monetization method open to almost everyone right now. If you do not learn how to make money with adsense, you’ll find the other methods to be even more difficult.

Stay tuned for part 2 .