Alternative way of adsense to make money on blog is affiliation you can put a link from your blog to access to there site so you can earned refferrals pay, when he join the affiliate programs or selling there products. If your template do not have space for ads you can choose another template with lots of ads space.

How to join affiliate programs:

# sign-up the application form

#get your affiliation link code and paste it into your "html"

If your looking and trying to build a profitatble blog try the Google Analytics. This is a great tool that will show you more useful and important information about how people will find your blog, the search on keywords that will find you, the information on where they came and how long they stayed. You will learn about your visitor and how they interact on your blog.

Blogger doesn't offer any home blog analytics but I am so thankful to found Google Analytics, now I know how to build and make a profitable blog.