Im wondering if I want to get make money with adsense, is the whole point to make a website with keywords that are the highest paying?. How do i find out which keywords pay the most. So I make a site add adsense to it SEO the heck out of the website and hope people click on the adsense ads. is that pretty much how it works?
My thoughts are that you should focus on the site and then the monetization afterwards. Create a site on a topic that you enjoy without worrying too much on how much the keywords will go for on Adsense. Just because 'loan consolidation' is an expensive keyword does not mean you should be making sites about it unless you really know what you're doing. Here's a blog post I wrote that might help you: winningtheweb.com/interests-feed-sites.php
Here is a sample lists of highest paying keywords.. http://adsandsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/top-paying-google-adsense-keywords.html