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Jason writes that they have been accepted into the testing program of Google Adsense ads in RSS feeds. Lucky things! I’m not bitter though after my own rejection – sniff sniff. Well not too bitter. thanks to Mike for the tip Update: in spotting some of their ads in their ...more

I thought I’d try my luck and drop the team at Google’s Adsense an email to ‘offer my services’ as a tester for their RSS ad program. Of course I wasn’t expecting an affirmative response but thought I’d test my birthday luck. The response was to be expected: Hello Darren, ...more

Google have added a heatmap to their Optimization Tips page to give publishers a few clues as to what positions on your site might be best for Adsense Ads (darker colors are best performing positions). Nice how they designed this in ProBlogger Colours by the way You’ll notice from the ...more

The Blogging community is buzzing with the news yesterday of Google Adsense Ads in RSS feeds. There are a few relevant updates surfacing to this story: Robert from Longhorn Blogs (the blog that the first Adsense Ads were spotted in the RSS feed of) answers a few questions on their ...more

Google have developed the technology for putting adsense ads in RSS Feeds. This is the news we’ve all been waiting for as publishers. Longhornblogs.com is one of the first testers of this this new RSS ad system (check the ads out in their RSS feed). I’m surprised that its taken ...more

Google are now communicating to Adsense publishers about the new changes to their contextual ad system that I’ve been posting about for the past 24 hours. They are taking the line that it will bring more advertising dollars into the network which will of course benefit publishers. CPM ads – ...more

I’ve been pondering the new Site Targeted Ads from Google that I mentioned in the last post and have been thinking about all the interesting implications that this might have on those advertising on blogs. I suspect that with the advent of these ads that we’ll also see some pretty ...more

Google is beta testing a new feature for AdWords that will allow advertisers to choose which sites their ads will appear on – Site-Targeted Ads. They explain the program with the following statements: ‘Since Google first introduced AdWords, advertisers have asked us for the ability to run their ads on ...more

With the recent reports of Google’s massive surge in profits ($369million) for the first quarter of 2005 I can’t help but wonder how much of it is due to bloggers like us. Of course its a little arrogant of us to take all the credit – after-all they do have ...more