Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Google continues to test and introduce new ways to make their AdSense ads more profitable and useful. Their latest innovation is sliding ads. I first spotted it on a client’s website. It was active on a banner ad (468×60) and displayed left and right buttons for cycling (sliding) through ads. ...
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped recently reported on a new code/policy change with the clickable area of AdSense ads. In his entry, Google Redefines the Clickable AdSense Area, he stated: Similar to what Google has been doing with ads in search results, they also now restricted the clickable area in ...
Monday, May 21st, 2007
Search Engine Roundtable is sounding the alarm for anyone who has created a Made for AdSense (MFA) website and is using AdWords to drive traffic. They cite this recent WebmasterWorld.com thread as proof. Publishers are reporting that their AdSense accounts are being terminated, because of their MFA websites. The practice ...
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Although some designs are probably too late to save — cough, Orkut — Google did a very nice job redesigning their AdSense entrance page. The old design (taken from Google’s cache) sports the same super-low-quality thumbnail that’s always been there, along with their oh-so-boring layout. The new design is much ...
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Google started rolling out their new AdSense Referral product on Thursday night. Here’s a step-by-step walkthrough of their new product that is in beta — shocking, I know. Referrals Google Referrals allow you to choose specific products or keywords as ads on your site. This allows you to match content ...
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Google has debuted a new AdSense Referrals product. Although AdSense has supported referrals for a handful products and services (AdWords, AdSense, Firefox, etc…) for some time, the new referral program is a dramatic change for the product. The email message being sent out states the following new features: Earn extra ...
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
There are several ways to increase AdSense revenue — good color schemes, intelligent designs and clever ad positions. I recently stumbled upon another way to improve AdSense revenue. It’s called Ads Black List and it allows you to take advantage of a special feature called Competitive Ad Filter. AdsBlackList.com is ...
Monday, November 14th, 2005
Google Analytics was announced today, and it’s a big step forward for webmasters and web metrics. Urchin, which Google bought earlier this year and used as a foundation for Analytics, was a nice product. A little expensive, but the reports were definitely a step ahead of the competition. The installation ...
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
Google Adsense has the power to make very little money, or a tremendous amount of money, all on the same website. The disparity in income usually comes from poor ad placement, colors, and ad types. Google Adsense Colors There are generally three schools of thought regarding the color of Google ...