Google Adsense

Does anyone make any money from google Adsense? Yesterday I added google adsense to my website: http://DiscountLasVegasHomes.com to hopefully make a little bit of extra change:) We'll see how it works, guess you probably need a lot of traffic going to your site first.
Will having adsense help your site as in more traffic? or do the ads count as possible backlinks?