CategoryAdsense

Two important posts over at Jensense today (why news break every time I go away): 1. Google AdSense begins rich media beta test – very interesting news. Google are going beyond just text ads and are testing a variety of other types of ads including interstitial (I’m not a fan ...more

Interesting post over at ipears (love the name) on The importance of a good ‘post slug’ where Jan reflects upon the impact that changing URLs of individual posts from number extensions to content related keyword extensions had on AdSense ads. ‘I left all titles as is, but started renaming all ...more

In mid December I switched the contextual ads showing at ProBlogger from AdSense to YPN to join the beta test (through b5media’s account which is based in the US). I did it largely as an experiment to see how this new ad network performed first hand. The results of the ...more

Steve Pavlina has just posted some graphs plotting his 2005 Traffic & Adsense Revenue Growth which both show how well his site has been doing over the last 12 months. Steve’s traffic has grown from 86,000 visitors in the month of February 2005 to a projected level of 715,000 visitors ...more

I am often asked by readers what percentage of the money advertisers pay Google is kept by them and what they give to AdSense publishers. Jen has spotted an article in the NYT that claims the figure Google gives publishers is 78.5%. ‘the article clearly states Google pays roughly 78.5 ...more

If you have a blog that you don’t want anyone to know about and you use AdSense be careful about activating the ‘advertise on this site’ feature. Jensense points out that it’s one way that can give away who you are. Of course the other way is to do a ...more

One of the common complaints I’ve seen from AdSense publishers is a lack of detail in their referrals stats. Inside AdSense gives a hint that this will change with their post – A referrals refresher: ‘We’ll soon be making ‘Advanced Reports’ available for referrals. This will allow you to see ...more

Eric is running another award/poll – this time it’s the Best AdSense Resources of 2005 Poll. The great thing about this poll is that you can make suggestions to other AdSense resources along the way. There’s not nearly enough votes in all categories so head over and have your say. ...more

With the holidays fast approaching I thought I’d end this week’s poll of the week a couple of days early. The question this week asked how much readers earned from Chitika’s eMiniMalls. in October after auditing. The results (shown graphically below) illustrate very clearly that Chitika has a way to ...more