If you want to make money from AdSense, you need to draw visitors to your website and then convince then to click on the AdSense ads that are placed on your website. And a steady flow of traffic and content that is created to target visitors are the main determinants in reaping the profit from the use of AdSense on your web pages. But, if you are not capable of creating content for your website, then you can consider building your own portal site.

Now, what are portal sites? Well, these are the sites that offer visitors a list of links to pages that are meant to be of their interest, based on the keywords they have entered. Such sites work like a vertical search engine, but the difference is that portal sites purchase AdWords through Google and are displayed on your pages as AdSense.

For getting these sites, you need to purchase a domain name and set up web hosting. Some examples of open source portals include Mambo, PHP Nuke and Joomla. These sites allow for some written content as well as space for advertising. The best part about them is they are free of cost. Setting up your own portal site can be somewhat daunting, but there are several online tutorials that can help you until you are accustomed to how it all works.
The content part of your portal site completely depends on you. Also updating the content does not take that much time.