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Search Engine Roundtable has run a poll asking the question “Have your AdSense earnings dropped in February from January?”
60% (51 people) of those who answered said Yes, 36% (31 people) said No and 4 people had other things to say (not sure what they were!).
This corresponds with my own experience of AdSense earnings this [...]
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A recent post on the Inside AdSense blog highlighted the possible value of using Google AdSense’s Allowed Sites feature to enable publishers to identify malicious activity and click fraud. The recent post was in answer to feedback Google had received when asking for AdSense Product Ideas.
One of the suggestions received by Google was this:
Show a [...]
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A couple of months ago I received an email from the Google AdSense team inviting me to take part in the beta testing of the new AdSense interface. I was more than happy to accept as I have often felt the old look needed updating.
The new system is still in beta, but if you [...]
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Google has just launched a new service called Buzz. It allows you to upload and share messages, photos and videos through your Gmail account.
There is no setup or signup needed as you automatically follow all of your existing Gmail contacts, and anything you want to share with others can be done publicly or privately.
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This is on YouTube at the moment, there is also a shorter version which could be the one that makes it to TV. I can’t recall ever seeing a TV ad for a browser before!
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When Google first released it’s Chrome browser it was greeted with a hubbub of geeky excitement. I downloaded it, I installed it, I tried it – I didn’t like it. That was the case for a few weeks anyway.
It sat on my laptop waiting to be used, but it was difficult to drag me away [...]
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For the past few days the internet has been all a flutter over Google’s newest app, Google Wave. The hype has been intense and expectations are high, but few people have actually been able to take it for a test drive, yet.
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Google has announced a change to the way adverts are delivered to AdSense publishers.
In the past the sole provider has been Google itself, through the AdWords network. The change allows other companies and ad networks, which have been approved by Google, to compete with AdWords advertisers for the spaces available in the AdSense units.
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Google has announced another new avenue for it to explore – venture capital – and the project has been given the name Google Ventures.
This is Google’s effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies. By borrowing the best practices of top-tier, financially focused venture capital firms and [...]
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Google has announced that it intends to retire it’s AdSense video units feature at the end of April 2009.
The decision has been made because of the lack of impact the feature has made.
Video units were launched in October 2007 and allowed AdSense publishers to display YouTube videos on their website and generate revenue from [...]
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If you have noticed strange figures in your AdSense account over the past day or two, fear not, you are not alone.
People have been reporting a huge increase in page impressions with a corresponding decrease in CTR (click through rate), but overall the balance was similar to the expected income.
I first noticed this last night, [...]
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iGoogle has launched a selection of gaming themes. The themes offer users of iGoogle the chance to beef up their backdrops by using one of the game inspired backgrounds.
You can choose from all time classics such as Mario and Mega Man and new kids on the block like Wii Sports and Spore.
Original Post : iGoogle’s [...]
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Google is now including longer, more detailed descriptions on its search results pages for search phrases that include three or more words. The idea is to show the words which have been searched for in more context and allow the searcher to make a more informed decision about which link to follow.
The example phrase used [...]
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If you are a user of AdSense on your blog/website and have performed any kind of research into how to get the most out of the adverts, you will no doubt have come across the argument that “less is more”.
The thought process behind this strategy is that the fewer the number of ads placed on [...]
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Google has made some changes to the Google AdSense home page and in doing so has caused problems for some users, myself included.
I tried to login to my account this morning and found myself being sent ’round in circles from one login page to another. I generally use the Firefox browser so decided to [...]
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Title Tweaks is the name of a new Gmail Labs release which allows you to monitor the amount of unread emails within your Gmail account without having to have the tab open.
When Title Tweaks is disabled the browser tab will say “Google Mail – Inbox (7) – emailaddress@gmail.com“. This is showing you the website name, [...]
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Matt Cutts is a big wig at Google. He is head of the Google Webspam team and acts as the visual interface between the big G and bloggers, webmasters, SEO’ers, marketers and everyone else who is interested in benefiting from being online.
Matt’s blog is essential reading for a lot of people as he mostly writes [...]
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Hot on the heels of the increase in channels in some Google AdSense accounts comes another new feature, this one allows webmasters and bloggers to specify a particular font for a particular advert.
There are three fonts to choose from – Arial, Verdana and Times New Roman – and your choice can be applied to an [...]
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