your account if you do not follow their rules. Their rules include things like you may not click the links on your own site yourself, or write a program that generate false clicks, there must be useful content on the page where you display the Adsense ad, you may not ask your visitors to click the links in order to support you, etc, etc. This is also where ethics comes in. Remember that the big advertisers will only keep on using Adwords to advertise if they get good results. If all the Adsense publishers start to generate false clicks, the advertisers will stop advertising because they do not get results. If they stop advertising we all loose an income.

You can also combine Adsense with affiliate programs. On some web pages I created a page where I market a product using one of the affiliate programs mentioned above. I place affiliate links and product banners on the page. All these links I select to be opened in a new window. I also place some Google Adsense ads on the web site. The visitor lands on the page, perhaps click one of the affiliate banner. A new window opens, he looks at the offer, and he either buys or not buys and closes the window. He finished his business on the affiliate web site and closed the window. Now my web page is still open in the previous window. After he looked at the offer he will be looking for the next information and there my web site with the relevant Adsense Ads is still open in front of him. So this time he might click one of the Adsense ads. Sometimes you are lucky that the client buys the product you referred him to via the affiliate link and when he comes back also click an Adsense ad. Thus you earn twice with one visitor.

An example of such a page is available at http://www.graco.co.za/look_for/diet.php

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