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

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

Adsense 54 comments

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 October 20th, 2008 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense for RSS Feeds – How Contextual Are the Ads?

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Over the last few weeks we’ve (b5media) been experimenting with AdSense for RSS on our blogs (including ProBlogger). I’d previously had them on my photography blog but not here on ProBlogger.

Since activating them I’ve had around 1 email a day from readers telling me that they are seeing ’strange’ ads. The feedback is that some [...]

Written on September 12th, 2008 at 04:09 pm by Darren Rowse

Google AdSense Reports to Appear in Google Analytics – [Screenshots]

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Have you ever wished that you could get more details of how your AdSense performance is going and wondered why Google AdSense and Google Analytics don’t have some way of talking to one another to give you more effective metrics?
Well it seems that the time is coming soon where you’ll be able to read AdSense [...]

Written on August 19th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense for Feeds Goes Live

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Over the last week or two some Feedburner Ad Network publishers have been transitioned over to the new AdSense Feed Advertising system and over the weekend AdSense for Feeds has gone live for everyone. You should now see them in your AdSense setup tab.
AdSense for feeds is similar to most AdSense ads in that the [...]

Written on August 16th, 2008 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Split Testing: How To Increase Your Adsense Earnings 94% Overnight

Adsense, Blog Design 78 comments

In this post Brian Armstrong from StartBreakingFree.com shares some tips on using Split Testing to increase his AdSense earnings.
Long time readers of ProBlogger know that Darren is a big fan of split testing ads to improve your earnings. I took this advice to heart, and wanted to show you some real world results that [...]

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