CategoryAdsense

I’m interested to see today that there are a number of threads at Webmaster World’s forums that seem to be reporting poor earnings by Adsense publishers over the past few days. (for example here, here and here). These sorts of threads appear all year around of course but particularly at ...more

There is an interesting thread going on over at Webmaster World titled How much is an AdSense website worth? The discussion revolves around selling websites and determining what price is fair. It’s interesting to see the variety of approaches people take to determining a site’s worth. The dominate theory seems ...more

There is a good look at the Pros and Cons of Contextual Advertising over at Online Journalism Review today. Here’s a couple of snippets. Firstly a look at successful use of Adsense – they go to the usual suspects including Jason Calacanis: ‘For a general news site, the breaking news ...more

Jensense has a bit of a scoop – she’s been asked by Google to announce a new feature that enables people to report a publisher who is committing click fraud: ‘If you know of a publisher engaging in click fraud, you can now report them anonymously by clicking the “Ads ...more

Posting a follow up to Nicole Simon’s Ads: You can post them later! I thought I would mention a common practice used by membership sites or other types of sites that require registration, such as message boards. You can easily show ads just to those who are not logged in, ...more

Many blogs have two audiences, sometimes equally divided, sometimes not: The daily readers and the visitors through links and search engines. But most of us treat those visitors the same – presenting them the same layout, and the same amount advertisement. Why? If you analyze your earnings, you should see ...more

From Quick Online Tips: 15 Common Mistakes by Google Adsense Publishers that Violate Terms of Service

After a couple of non-eventful AdSense weeks earlier this month, the past week or so has seen plenty of new AdSense changes, many coinciding with the WebmasterWorld of Search Conference. First, Google AdSense engineers were in abundance at the “Meet the Engineers” evening that Google hosted. Set up at several ...more

Another interesting trend I’ve noticed in Adsense design recently on a number of discussion forums is to place images above your ads to draw the attention of your readers to them. Check out this thread at digital point and check out the innovative ad placement below with pictures placed above ...more