first off all don't concentrate this much on google earnings (in the beginning state in which you are). You should focus on traffic (not the free automated traffic which some sites offer) plain original visitors. And second build relevant content. Write or give something interesting (you can tell if it's interesting or not by the number of visitors - It should be increasing steadily from the state you are in). And after this your income will gradually grow by itself without you thinking off it all day. Oh and keep your site to the point. (example: If your talking about horses, keep it about horses!) A good subject is important. That's how i think and it works really well. I'm happy with what i earn, I can live off it.
$10 MONTHLY? Umm...even for a newbie I think this should be easily attainable. $10 DAILY would be a better topic...
Even with the BEST relevant content, I still don't understand how people are going to find your site without some form of promotion. Traffic has been my biggest problem as well. I have about 200 domains (most parked, some full sites, and some mini-sites) all with AdSense ads. After almost a year I am lucky to see 1-10 visitors a day to many of the sites (most are 0/day). I have tried everything I know of: submitting to search engines, submitting to 100s of directories, submitting XML sitemaps to Google, Yahoo, and MSN, submitting to Social Bookmarking sites, but nothing seems to be bringing in much traffic. I even tried Google AdWords, which did work to bring traffic, but it cost more than I made. Even if my content is poor, don't the viewers ("traffic") have to come to the site at least once to find that out. Where are they? What else can I legitimately do to increase traffic? What am I missing?
True why limit yourself to just $10.00 a month? Blogger.com isn't a great start (limits your flexibility) but i've heard that some people make quite a lot from their blogger.com blog. Like most of the people said it isn't so much about keywords (though they are quite important), its all about the amount of traffic going through your site. Write good material, keep it fresh and be persistent and you'll make loads more than just $10.00 a month.
In my experiences 1000 impressions is enough fro getting $2 to 3. So to achieve $10 we need at least 3000 impressions.
I have 4 years old adsense account and made no money since last month, google never mailed me to kick off. Who is saying this nonsense about Adsense.
you should focus on your web content and traffic and then aim for $100 permonth or even more! goodluck mate