I am personally tired of folks who come out and claim that you can make a decent living online without having to work hard. These folks claim to have made millions out of Adsense and eBay without having to work more than 4 minutes a day. The truth is making money with Adsense is possible, but it’s not as easy as it looks.

In order to have success with Google Adsense, you need to have:

• Content: it helps if your content is useful. But you want to make sure your content is optimized for search engines as far as the on-page factors go. Use a catchy keyword rich title and don’t forget your SEO basics.
• Traffic: driving traffic to your Adsense site is the only way to make the kind of money folks are claiming to be making these days. SEO is great but you will most likely have to spend some money to keep your momentum going.
• Form & Placement: ad placement is one of the most underrated factors here. Folks often learn from their past experiences with your site and start to ignore your ads. That’s not good if you intend to make money with Adsense. You should always test different forms of ads on different sections of your site to keep your visitors on their toes. You can’t just sit around and expect the cash to keep coming in.

Making money with Adsense is possible. But you’ve got to be smart about it. Try different ads, use different keywords, and move your ads around to make sure folks don’t get used to your ad positioning on your pages. And as long as you are testing and improving your landing pages, you should see the progress easily.

Your take: how much are you making with Adsense and what’s your 2009 Adsense goal?