>and maybe even blog about it.

if people blog about your site you get links...and thus more link popularity and more rankings.

that link did not work when I clicked it.

think you meant to link here
http://www.google-consultant.com/adsense.asp

that was a rather short an unimpressive tip page...did you post the link to...

external links pointing into your site can get your site banned from google.

some examples:
people can do a 302 hijack
people can meta refresh penalties onto your site

I know many of the top...