CategoryAdsense

21st of March 2007 Darren Rowse

AdSense Referrals Beta Test Launched – CPA Ads

Technospot has a post with details of a new beta test that AdSense are doing in their referrals program (official site). I’m writing this on the run as I’m in the middle of a session – however it looks like an interesting development based on publishers being in control of ...more
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16th of March 2007 Darren Rowse

5 Tips for Improving AdSense Referrals Earnings

Yesterday I asked Do AdSense Referrals converted well for me? Today I’d like to turn our attention to some tips on how to make the referral program convert better. How do you get more readers to click through and sign up to referrals? Here are five tips that I’ve used: ...more
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15th of March 2007 Darren Rowse

Do AdSense Referrals Work?

Today’s reader question is – ‘I would like to know your views on Google referral ads. Do you make money out of them, or is it something to run away from?’ – submitted by gabo_uy. Google AdSense Referrals are the CPA ads (cost per action) from the popular AdSense service. ...more
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25th of February 2007 Darren Rowse

AdSense Testing Another New ‘Related’ Ad Format

Update – Thanks to Amit and siong1987 – this is just the latest version of Google’s Related Links. Speaking of Google testing new types of AdSense ads – Dave from DaveDevelopment just emailed me to show me a new type of ad that he’s seen Google experimenting with. Here’s how ...more
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25th of February 2007 Darren Rowse

AdSense testing Italicized Ads

Over the last week I’ve had quite a few readers emailing me about Google AdSense ads that they are seeing with the headings of the ad in italics. Initially the ads mainly seemed to be appearing on big websites and I thought they were something premium publishers were testing but ...more
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14th of February 2007 Darren Rowse

AdSense Confirm Google Checkout Icons on Ads – What do You Think of Them?

The AdSense blog today confirms what we’ve all been noticing for a while now – they’ve started including a little Google Checkout icons on advertisers who use it (see below). I’m interested to hear from publishers on whether they like it or not. On one hand it does add something ...more
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6th of February 2007 Darren Rowse

AdSense Relaxes Ad Labeling Policies

A couple of weeks ago when Google made changes to it’s AdSense policies there was a lot of talk about the impact that the changes would have upon using different ad network ads on the same page as AdSense ads. One small change seemed to get lost in the midst ...more
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4th of February 2007 Darren Rowse

AdSense ‘Custom Placement Packs’ Program

I’m hearing tonight from a few bloggers that they’ve received an email from AdSense asking them if they’d like to be involved in a new program that they are running called ‘Custom Placement Packs’. This seems to be a program that clusters similar sites together to be sold to advertisers ...more
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3rd of February 2007 Darren Rowse

AdSense Referrals Payment Changes are Official – And there’s a $2000 Bonus!

The AdSense/AdWords Referrals changes that I reported here yesterday are official with an announcement today on the AdSense Blog. Not only can you now earn up o $255 for an AdSense referral – you can also earn a $2000 bonus for referring 25 publishers who earn over $100 within a ...more
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