CategoryAdsense

AdSense have announced their API beta program today over at their blog. They are only accepting publishers ‘whose sites receive a minimum of 100,000 daily page views’. I’m a little unclear if this means that the publisher’s total page views need to be over 100,000 or whether each site they ...more

Dax from Biggnuts (hehe) has developed a WordPress plugin called AdSense injection that randomly injects AdSense ads into different positions on your blog on each different page view in an attempt to combat ad blindness. You can see it in action on Dax’s blog. Simply refresh the above page numerous ...more

Tonight I’ve been pondering the new AdSense video ads that have been offered in the past week to advertisers. As I think about them my mind goes back to a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a vidcaster about the challenge that he had with monetizing his videos. ...more

Eric has a helpful post on ensuring you don’t get banned from AdSense and advises publishers to take the initiative with AdSense if anything abnormal is happening on their blog that might impact their account: ‘It’s your job as an AdSense publisher to keep your nose clean. Keeping your nose ...more

The AdSense team must have had a lot of questions sent to them about the new video ads that are appearing this week because their blog has a post titled Video ads: Your questions answered which – as the title suggestions tackles some of the many questions I’ve heard about ...more

AdWords have officially started allowing their US, Canadian and Japanese advertisers create video ads. This should mean that we start seeing the first of them in the coming days as they are approved by the AdWords team. Let us know if and where you spot them in action and what ...more

The AdSense blog has announce that they have now added international referral buttons to their referrals area. This allows non English blogs to start using referrals in their own languages (I can count 23 or so languages currently supported). There are definitely not as many button options available for non ...more

AdSense have emailed publishers today telling them that they’ve changed their default ad design to be a borderless ones. Their email reads: “We’re writing to let you know about a coming change to the appearance of your Google ads. Your ads currently display the default Google color palette, Seaside (formerly ...more

The official AdSense blog has just put up a post announcing the Introduction of video ads to publishers (they announced it to advertisers yesterday – why they don’t do simultaneous announcements I’m unsure). They clarify a few points (most of which we’d guessed to be true): “Video ads will compete ...more