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Here’s an update on the previous post about AdSense changing their AdSense/AdWords referral payment system. It’s looking like a promising two tiered system. More reports are coming in now that different AdSense offices around the world are confirming changes in their referrals payments. Here’s the translation of a response from ...more

It looks like AdSense might be changing their payment structure for their AdSense and AdWords referrals. After a tip from a reader I just logged into my account and saw that today I have XX conversions for my AdSense referrals for a total of $XXX and X conversions for AdWords ...more

I’ve been wanting to review Eric Giguere’s Uncommon AdSense (aff) e-book for a while now but after reading it then got crazily busy – to the point where I couldn’t do it justice. Please forgive me – this will be brief – but having read it I thought I should ...more

Jensense has confirmed that it is now possible to run contextual ads on pages alongside AdSense ads. This was previously outlawed in both their policies and TOS which meant that numerous other ad systems were not allowed to be used on the same page as AdSense.. So what Contextual ad ...more

JenSense has a nice compilation of the changes that AdSense has made to it’s policies today. There are quite a few but the ones that caught my eye are: Referrals – you could previously have four referrals products per page but could only link to each one once. Now you ...more

Nik Cubrilovic picks up on Guy Kawasaki’s posting his revenue and concludes that ‘AdSense for bloggers sucks, the click-through rates are too low, the advertising is not relevant enough and readers of blogs are more accustomed to blocking-out the ads – all this results in a very low CPM rate.’ ...more

Brian at Caydel’s SEO Blog has written a post today revealing that Google AdSense is Beta-Testing Keyword-based Ad Filtering that allows publishers to nominate keywords that they don’t want ads about on their sites – a sort of ‘negative’ keyword targeting. This would help publishers who are getting mis-targeted and ...more

The AdSense team have finally come out and publicly written about their policy on images near their ads. This is long overdue as it has been almost a year since I’ve had publishers asking me about the topic and have seen publisher experiment with the practice of putting ads above, ...more

Yesterday we reported that AdSense were testing new ways of showing the ‘Ads by Goooogle’ links on their ad units. Today there’s confirmation that it is indeed a test which is being done on a minimal number of impressions of publishers ads. The following was the response from AdSense to ...more