Many people seem to think that making money online with affiliate marketing is fast and easy. Although it is true that affiliate marketing is an online business that anyone can start to make money on the Internet, people need to know that doing affiliate marketing isn't at all as easy as it seems to be.

To make money online through an affiliate marketing business, you have to realize that there is no easy button to become successful with it. It is imperative that you first understand what success in affiliate marketing entails. To truly make money online, you need to know what affiliate marketing really is and how much work it involves. Once you have allowed yourself to become well-versed with the ins and outs of affiliate marketing, you should know that there is still much work to be done to get started.

The first thing you would have to do is to find the affiliate marketing program that you can excel in. Find one that is not only successful and popular but also one that involves products and services that you are interested in. Once you have found such a program, be sure that you familiarize yourself with everything there is to know about that specific affiliate marketing program. You should also take the time to think about what creative and fresh things you can do with your own affiliate marketing efforts. This will help you to set yourself apart from your competitors and be able to make money online at greater amounts.

Once you are ready to begin, there are many other things you need to do. You must research on your target market and find out what keywords are relevant to your business. You must also take the time to develop your own website and find the best ways to promote it. Keep in mind that these tasks must be done constantly and continuously. Even when you have already launched your affiliate marketing business and you have already begun to make money online, you will still need to work. Always remember that your target market constantly evolves and you must always be on the lookout for the best ways to approach them and communicate with them.

Without going through all these necessary steps, your affiliate marketing efforts will most likely fail in allowing you to make money online. However, don’t let this intimidate you. Although it may seem quite difficult in the beginning, you will find that the effort you exert will truly be worth it once you begin to make money online out of your affiliate marketing business.

I have seen quite a lot of AdSense publishers posted in different forums stating that their AdSense accounts were banned by Google due to fraudulent clicks. Most of these people claim that they are innocent and have never clicked on their on AdSense ads. So they have no idea why click fraud can occur on their AdSense accounts. The truth is click fraud can happen in several ways and not necessarily caused by the AdSense publisher himself/herself who accidentally clicked on his/her own AdSense.

Below are some of the tips to protect your AdSense account:

1) Do not use autosurf programs to promote your websites that contain AdSense. Autosurf programs can substantially increase your website traffic or hits, AdSense page view and ecpm but people who surf your site only to earn advertising credit or other type of incentives. So the traffic generated from autosurf programs aren't counted as real and thus against AdSense policies.

2) If possible, do not involve in any traffic exchange networks and programs. If you have join one or more programs or networks that can make you a steady AdSense commission, you should start worry about your AdSense account as this could mean that members of the program(s) were clicking each other AdSense ads all the while whether intentionally or unintentionally. As soon as Google detected a group of people were clicking each other AdSense, many of the members AdSense account in the program will be suspended. Also traffic exchange can be another mean to artificially generate tons of unreal website traffic or hits and boost up AdSense page view & ecpm and it is strictly prohibited by Google .

3) Do not join AdSense exchange networks. They are similar to traffic exchange programs except members are participate just for clicking each other AdSense. This should be a guaranteed way to be banned by Google.

4) Read all the Google AdSense policies at http://www.google.com/adsense to see whether you have against any policies and make the necessary modification.

Google AdSense program has made it easier for webmasters to make money through a website. Webmasters who run an AdSense campaign will display Google's contextual Ads relevant to the content of their sites and thus encouraging visitors to click the ads and earn money for each ad click.

However you will earn very little AdSense revenue if you don't know how to optimize your AdSense ads on your website. Here are some tips to increase your AdSense earning:

1. Focus on one Adsense ad format. The Large Rectangle (336X280) ad format seems to work better than other ad formats because this format tends to result in higher click through rates (CTR). Another reason is that the ads will look like normal web links that visitors use to click on them. It doesn't matter whether the visitors know that they are clicking AdSense ads or not, as long as there are clicking, you earn AdSense commission.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Select a color that matches your website's background. If your site's background is white both, the color of ad border and background should set to be white too. Also the color of the ad title should be similar to coloe of the links in your website. This is to make your AdSense ads look like it is part of the web pages. Again, this will boost AdSense CTR.

3. Don't place your AdSense ads at the bottom of your webpages because it is proven to be less effective. Displaying your AdSense ads at the bottom is like hiding your AdSense and thus leads to low CTR and AdSense revenue. Try to 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.

4. Try to place your AdSense ads near rich content as visitors main focus usually are your content. There are several ways to insert AdSense ads into your content and one of the ways is place your AdSense just after the end of your content.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your AdSense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your AdSense code in a text file, name it as “AdSense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then use SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. There are other ways to optimize your AdSense that produce high CTR also. You can learn more tricks by reading in AdSense and webmaster forums.v