Adsense is only worthwhile if your site has a huge amount of traffic and you get a $100 cheque every month or every 15 days. Its not the case for all. I have seen some people stuck up with $30 even after 6 months of hardwork. This is really frustrating.

I believe , the best way to make money online is to create a good content site, build up a decent traffic. Then contact companies/shops in the same industry to place their advt in he site for a nominal amount.

This ensures a fixed revenue for you every month instead of wasting so much effort in adsense.

Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of Internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies, and in-house affiliate managers, specialized third party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques, such as publishing reviews of products or services offered by a partner.

I have read  that text link ad is a good option. What do you guys think? Their payout is $25 which is good, the format of the ad they serve is also neat. Heard that google wiped off test link ads from the search results, anyone know why?