the best thing is to target high paying keywords you can go to googdle adwords and have a peek on what keywords that's giving high ctr rate some ads are worth as high as $20
Alot of people are crazy about naruto and would do almost anything to have some product of Naruto, you just need to come up with a brilliant idea to exploit peoples willingness.
I good thing to do is use blogger to build up a number of blogs and only THEN invest in a hosted blog with your own unique domain name. Blogger is free, allows you to monetize, and will allow you to test out different keywords and topics. Once you decide to invest in a blog, pick a good theme (I personally like Socrates). If you are going to pay to host a website and pay for a domain name you may as well install an optimal theme.
Don't focus too much on the amount to make per month. Focus on unique content and keywords that aren't too high or low in competition (~ 500-10,000 google searches a month), and a template that attract clicks. X amount of money will come.
Today I wrote a text very quickly but that's the basic idea of using google insights to produce mass appeal content, if you can write proper english, try my method honestly you can't go wrong, I've copied it in a thread here at DP, because it's tiring to read people crying when they should simply pull their fingers of their a.. and switch on their brain.. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2269507
For my personal view for newbie blog you have to wait and build quality backlinks for your new website and blog to gain maximum traffic because its a first step to make your site popular and when your website get popular amongst people and users than automatically you will be able to get 100$ amount every month.
My method is only 4 weeks long and involve only 3 articles per day. You don't get to choose the subject though..
Only two strategies... 1. Keep your blog original, fresh and readers friendly.... 2. Work hard to drive quality and organic traffic from search engine. Only that can help you improve your adsense earnings. Other things you can test is ad placement and ad colors etc.. but after doing above two things...
your adsense earnings depend on your website/blog traffic. the more visitors you have to your site the more you earned. so just concentrate in optimizing your website/blog to get more visitors and add as many content as you can so to create more pages which will make google to place more adds on your site and you will earn a good amount.
Bring more visitors using different ways like advertising, forum posting, articles writing and use SEO techniques etc.
Adsense earning mostly depends on niche. Do some research and find out some profitable niche. Then use unique content, they should be error free, original and easy to read and understand. Then start doing proper on page and off page optimization for getting good number of targeted traffic. Traffic from USA, CA, AU, etc. provide more money than any other countries. Bland your ads with the web page. You need hard work for making $100 from 1 site every month.
You need good content and lots of visitors. You also need to blend your Google ads into your page making sure that you put them in the right place, it's no good putting them when nobody looks.For a minimum of $100 a month you're going to be looking for several hundred hits a day. Somebody mentioned a niche, this is probably the one thing that will get you your hits, it's no good talking about something that everyone else is already talking about. I'm afraid that you will have to work very hard to make any money from Google AdSense, it sounds easy, but it's not.