There are thousands who were lucky enough to catch hold to that cheque Google sends, there are millions who were not lucky enough. Well I think I know what the problem was. Even you might be one of them. So let me take you through this small "advice" which might help you get that valuable $100 cheque from Google!
You have to be patient!
The golden principle is patience, you might take 3 months to get to that $5 mark, depending on your content. So you will have to be patient.
Understand that you wont get money for free!
There is no way you can get money for free. You will have to work hard on it. I remember myself spending more than 12hours a day on my blogs!
Keep track of the latest trends!
You should keep track on the latest trends. Trends means everything related to your blog like new happenings, ad placement research articles, high CTR keywords, new plugins etc. These are very important
Learn to build up traffic, forget about money!
This is the main point which will determine your success. If your content is good and if there is lots of visitors then clicks will automatically come. So the page should be user friendly and avoid too many ads.
Track your Visitors
Visitor actions should be properly tracked so that you know from which source they are coming, which pages they read, what made them exit etc. This can be done using any traffic analysis tool.
All these will help you concentrate more on your content and visitors. And thus help you get that magic cheque!
'Concentrate on Content, forget about money'