Archive for Adsense

Written on June 24th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

How to Prevent and Monitor Invalid Clicks, and keep an AdSense Account in Good Standing [a Statement from AdSense]

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Over the last week or two there’s been an increase amount of chatter on forums and blogs about invalid clicks and AdSense. Some of the talk has contained information that has been a little confusing and perhaps even ill-informed (and some ‘influenced’ by companies with their own agendas) - so I got in touch with [...]

Written on June 20th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

Simple Changes Doubled My Adsense Revenue

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In this post Todd Fratzel from Home Construction Improvement and Today’s Green Construction shares how he doubled the AdSense revenue on his blog with a few simple changes.
Several simple changes in my Adsense approach and layout have almost doubled my blog’s revenue. The results were so drastic and eye opening that I convinced a friend [...]

Written on June 18th, 2009 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense Introduces Font Size Choice for Publishers

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One of the more commonly requested features that I see AdSense publishers making is for the ability to be able to change font size in their ads.
The AdSense blog today announces this change:

“The font size you choose will be applied to the body of the ad, with the title scaled appropriately. In order to fit [...]

Written on May 6th, 2009 at 01:05 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Announce ‘Google Ad Planner’ - Showcase Your Site

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If you run AdSense on your blog and are looking to attract advertisers to target it specific with their ads then you’ll want to check out a new tool that AdSense have just announced on their blog - Google AdPlanner’s Publisher Center.
Ad Planner is a tool that advertisers use to find sites related to their [...]

Written on April 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense Developing ‘Category Filtering’ Feature

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AdSense today announced at Adspace and on their blog that they’re developing a much requested feature for publishes - category filtering.

“Category filtering will give publishers the ability to block ads that fall into specific categories such as dating, religion, and politics. Regardless of how ads are targeted, they’ll be filtered if they’re within one of [...]

Written on March 5th, 2009 at 11:03 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense ‘Force’ Expandable Ad Units on Some Publishers and Exclude Others

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Update: I’ve updated this post below with an update from AdSense. Please read it.
AdSense have today announced a new type of ad - Expandable Ad Units.
I’m pretty sure that I’ve seen these ads being tested on one of my sites (although bizarrely I am not able to use the ads as I’m not located in [...]

Written on March 4th, 2009 at 12:03 pm by Darren Rowse

Some European AdSense Publishers Can Now Get Reports in Euros

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AdSense today have added the ability for publishers located in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain to view AdSense reports in Euros as well as USD. They write:

“If you’re located in one of these five countries and make this update, we’ll convert your earnings to Euros on a daily basis using the prevailing market [...]

Written on February 20th, 2009 at 11:02 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense Lets You Change Your Font in Ad Units

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AdSense have just announced a new feature that many of us have been asking for for a while - the ability to change fonts in ad units.
While there’s not an extensive choice of fonts (they allow Arial, Times, and Verdana font faces) it is better than nothing and allows publishers to tweak the way their [...]

Written on February 9th, 2009 at 12:02 am by Darren Rowse

My AdSense Tips on the Official AdSense Blog

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Overnight some a video and guest post that I did went up on the official AdSense blog.  
The video is just a few basics on using AdSense that some of the team from Google shot at my house late last year - and the post tells a little of my story and gives my #1 tip [...]

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