Basics with making money with Google Adsense.

The basics of making money with Adsense is that with your site/blog you must

Bring in traffic
Get people to come back
Good site layout.

Bring in traffic

There are many ways to bring in traffic. The first one is to register your url with all the popular search engines. However when you start a site it is generally going to have a low page rank. That is why you want to bring in traffic by other ways. This can be by leaving comments on other peoples sites and blogs, even discussion forums. You can tell all your friends about it however thats not going to be much anyway. But by leaving comments on related blogs will bring in a fair amount. By having lots of original content on your site will help you with the search engine results

Get people to come back

Generally by having a site with unique content will do this. So come up with originally content and update your site regularly. Having discussing forum can work to as people will leave messages and come back to check new comments. This will also increase traffic through search engines as your site will have more content.

Good site layout

Generally blend your adsense ads into the page, something like i have done. Make it a easy to use site and use your common sense to make an easy to use site.