Many approaches to extracting income from a website/blog have come and gone over the years, but Google AdSense has remained perhaps the single most popular strategy. However, like anything else online, you can hurt your efforts with simple mistakes, so we'd like to help you avoid some common ones when you're using AdSense on your site.

One thing is about privacy, and that is something you'll always have to consider when you're doing business with Google. Google does not want you disclosing anything about your Google Adsense account. Your click through rate is one such forbidden area as well as earnings from your ad blocks, etc. It will be your responsibility to know what is in their terms of service for the Adsense program. You can discuss the total amount of your earnings, but you can't discuss any of the particulars about it. The best way to deal with this is to try and avoid disclosing any such information for whatever reason or else you may have your account banned.

It is also important to note that you aren't allowed to put AdSense ads in e-mails. While it is a fact that is the HTML e-mails look good and do allow the insertion of such ads, it is not allowed by Google's terms of service. If their logs show that people are clicking ads from your e-mails you will be in trouble. This only makes your account likely to get banned permanently. If you want to monetize your e-mail, stick to affiliate links or ads for your own products.

Make sure that you avoid excessive advertising and keyword stuffing. The definition of excess is subjective and depends on a few things but with the right placement, targeted content and good keywords you can make a lot of money with AdSense. Advertising excessively isn't necessary. Same goes with the keyword stuffing where you don't have to do it because it won't serve any real purpose.

To sum up, these tips clearly show you how to stay within the rules set up on the Google TOS if you want to run AdSense on your website or blog. When you read them carefully you'll find that most of the rules aren't all that hard to follow and can actually help you earn more money.