A to Z of Google Adsense

Google Adsense is an amazing contextual advertising program that lets you earn revenue from your site by a variety of revenue generating programs. Pay per click ads, Adsense for search, referrals for Firefox with Google toolbar, Picassa, Google Pack and the adsense program itself. This is a compilation of common Google tips and tools to make more money from Google Adsense.

Google Adsense Guidelines
Program policies, Terms and conditions - follow these rules.
Adsense FAQ - The Adsense support centre for official guidelines.
Adsense Tax information - how google collects and uses your tax information
Adsense Taxes - a free resource about paying income tax on Google Adsense Revenue.
15 Common Adsense Mistakes - Avoid these errors that could get your adsense account banned.
Ad formats - Official list of different types of ad formats you can use.
Webmaster Guidelines - will help Google find, index, and rank your site.
Report a policy violation - If you notice a site displaying Google ads that you believe is violating program policies, let them know.

Adsense Starter Demos
Google Adsense Tour - introducing you to the Adsense program.
Getting Started Demo: learn to sign in, copying and pasting your code, setting up alternate ads, and using your Competitive Ad Filter.
Help with Ad Code Demo: troubleshoot basic problems when implementing your code. Also covers how to implement your code using two different types of WYSIWYG software.
Payment Demo: learn about the AdSense payment cycle, from a click on your ads to money in the bank!
Optimization Demo: learn how to use ad size and placement to maximize your AdSense revenue.
Track Adsense Income, Statistics and Clicks
Adsense Notifier - Firefox extension that displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar.
SysSense - personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. It keeps your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray.
Adsense Widget - a Mac Dashboard widget that automatically logs into your AdSense Google account and displays the last 6-days of revenue generated from your Google advertising account.
Google Adsense Yahoo Widget - displays the current income directly from your Google AdSense account.
Stats for AdSense widget - allows you to view your Google AdSense™ reports directly from your Mac OS X Dashboard.
Adsense Status - GoogleDesktop plugin to View earnings information from your Google Adsense account in the Google Desktop sidebar. Available information: page impressions, clicks, page CTR, page eCPM, and your earnings.
Adsense Alert - desktop client monitors your adsense earnings.
Performancing Metrics - a free professional grade blog statistics service that track limited adsense click data
Adsense earnings RSS feed - a simple script that will create an RSS feed with your daily Adsense earnings to track via your regular feed reader.
Google AdSense Charts and Graphs - chart your adsense data in a multidimensional line charts.
AdSenseLog is a tool for checking and analyzing your Adsense ads data (Content, Search, Custom/URL channels and Referrals).

View / Test Adsense Ads
Google AdSense preview tool - addition to the right-click menu for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x, allowing you to preview the ads that may show on any web page.
Adsense Preview - Preview the Google ads that may show on any web page.
Google AdSense Sandbox Tool - see what sort of Google AdSense ads will appear based on content or keywords. See up to 20 sample AdSense ads for the URL or keywords.
Overture Keyword Tool - suggest keyword bid amount and keyword suggestions, which help you target high paying keywords.
Google Adwords Keyword Tool - generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google statistics, including search performance and seasonal trends.
Google Adsense Wordpress Plugins
AdRotator Wordpress Plugin - rotate your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls
Adsense Deluxe - offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts.
Adsense Injection - inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog.
Adsense Inline - insert adsense in blog posts
AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar - Google AdSense widget I designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
Google Adsense Optimization Tips
Adsense Success Case Studies - detailing success stories from top adsense publishers.
AdSense Optimization for Forums - get higher CTR by a unique adsense placement strategy.
Blogtimize! - ad placement for blogs for higher CTR
Adsense Optimization Tips - General tips for better ads postitioning and earn higher revenue.
Adsense Webinars - online seminars that help publishers obtain the highest results from their implementations of AdSense.
How to increase Google Adsense CTR - simple tips on colors and ad placement can increase CTR.
The Best of Eyetrack III - What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes. How readers scan a webpage.
How to Remove Public Service Ads - simple tips to help you remove non paying PSA ads.
AdsBlackList - will teach you how to seek, recognize and filter low paying google ads.
Yahoo Ads placement tips - suggestions to place Yahoo publisher network ads. Apply the same idea to adsense ads.
Rotate Google Adsense Ads Colors - helps to reduce Ad Blindness
High Paying Adsense Keywords - updated list of current highest paying keywords for Google Adsense.

Alternate Ads
Alternate ads - allows you to utilize your ad space in the event that Google is unable to serve targeted ads to your page.
Alternate Url - provides a 50/50 Revenue Share, full global coverage monthly payments automatic referral income, family safe ads, paypal supported and gives detailed stats.
AlterNut Ad - pays you a flat rate every month in return for you displaying thier ad rather than the PSA. Invite only.
Default Ads - load your affiliate or other ads into DefaultAds and generate a link to include in your Google Adsense alternate ad URL. They show their own ads 1 out of every 100 impressions for this service.
Adsense Chats and Forums
Inside AdSense blog - Official blog that posts new tips and information about new AdSense features.
Adsense Help - Google group for adsense support. Only posts from user ‘AdSensePro’ are approved by Google.
Digitalpoint Adsense Forum - discusses Adsense payments, guidelines, stats and reporting and much more.
Webmaster World Adsense Forum - Discussions around Googles Text Ad service AdSense.