CategoryAdsense

AdSense have updated their advice for publishers using their ads on Forums in their Help Center. Their update is pretty small – the changes in the heat maps from last time to this time are negligable (see below – the old version is on the left and the new one ...more

Just over a month ago I reported that AdSense had added a new features – Site Diagnostics – to what they were offering publishers. A few days later (actually from memory it was just a few hours later) it disappeared again – the official explanation was that it was a ...more

Rajesh has a screen shot of a dual language AdSense ad unit which displays one ad in Englishh and one in Hindi. I’ve seen dual language ads before and always thought they were probably a glitch in the system but in the last few days I’ve talked to a number ...more

Some publishers using Google Pages have today received an email from AdSense telling them that they are now able to use AdSense in the pages that they create. Here’s the email those of us who got the email got: We’re happy to let you know that Google Page Creator is ...more

AdSense publishers who use referrals heavily will be happy to know that AdSense have added the ability to track referral results with channels. This has been a long time coming and something that I’ve heard quite a few complaints about. URL channels don’t work so you’ll have to set up ...more

Seth Godin has written a post on SquidBlog about their experiment at Squidoo with moving AdSense ads from the right hand column to a more central position. As you’d expect, and as we’ve talked about here at ProBlogger many times, the click throughs went up significantly (it tripled). But that’s ...more

I’ve just noticed that Amazon UK’s Affiliate program is beta testing a new type of ad called ‘New Self-Optimising Links’. They describe it as: “Self-Optimising Links feature products chosen automatically based on the content of your site. To create Self-Optimising Links simply modify the template and appearance elements and copy ...more

A number of AdSense publisher have been reporting seeign a new type of AdSense ad over the last 24 hours or so. The ads in question seem to be happening in the narrow skyscraper ad unit (120×600) and consist of normal text ads with a 90×110 image at the top ...more

By now most people have seen the new digg design and expasion of their categories beyond their traditional ‘technology’ one. But what interests me most about the redesign is their integration of AdSense ads into the design. I noticed earlier today that they were a little different but didn’t think ...more