Here are some of proven ways on how to increase your Adsense earnings. Focus on one Adsense ad format The the Large Rectangle (336X280) is a format that worked well for the majority . This type of ad has the tendency to result in higher click-through rates (CTR). Why select this format? Basically because these ads look like usual web links, and people click them, because they’re being used to click on links. They may or may not be aware of the fact that they are clicking on your Adsense but they DO click and that will be for your advantage. Make a custom palette for your ads Select a color that will go well with the backgroundcolor of your site. If it’s a white background, test white as the color of your ad background and border. The idea behind modeling the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Do not hide your ads Remove any Adsense code from the bottom of your pages and put them at the top. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings. Link to relevant pages If you think some pages are better off than the others, put your ads there and maintain and manage these pages. Surround your ads with as many of your main page keywords, using as much H1, bold and italic tags as possible. Thus, the Adsense system will be able to better recognize the important keywords and insert relevant ads. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included).
Just to add that sometimes the Default Google Palette is better than blending and customizing the colors.
The large rectangle format is the one that performs well for most of the people but the blending of ads with the content has to be carefully done as the revised TOS stresses that the ads have to be distinctly visible and too much blending will definitely create some problems. You can see more info in the adsense blog
but these things can be guessed by anyone who starts adsense the real problem is traffic but where to get it besides the traffic threads on DP.no money to buy traffic
good tips, thanks for sharing Server Side Include is something that makes update to all your pages on the fly. you can either do PHP Include or #include functions depending on your site format. i myself mostly use pure HTML pages and run on Linux server. all i have to use is to edit my htaccess file and add a code to the html pages. code has reference to a file which will be persed when the server loads the page. so all you have to do is to update a single file with your adsense code or menu/nav bar and all the pages get updated on the fly. more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
This one look new to me, "Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included)." Wonder how this works? Btw, thanks for the nice tips and guide.