by Stephen on February 10, 2010
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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by Stephen on March 25, 2009
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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by Stephen on March 4, 2009
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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by Stephen on January 27, 2009
It has been a long time coming, and for some, the wait continues, but for others the ability to link together Google Analytics and Google AdSense is no longer a dream!
Over the past few weeks Google has been allowing webmasters to link their AdSense account with their Analytics account. I have seen the notice [...]
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by Stephen on December 17, 2008
If you are running AdSense on your website it is a good idea to keep track of the adverts being displayed on your pages.
There is a post on Webmaster World today about offensive adverts being displayed on a travel website. The adverts are pictorial and are for a website that finds husbands for Chinese brides.
This [...]
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by Stephen on December 15, 2008
I have just read an interesting post about a change in Google’s policy for accepting new applications into their income generating program, AdSense.
It seems Google has finally decided to do something about the amount of poor quality websites that has sprung up during the past few years and has tightened up the approval process. This [...]
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by Stephen on October 5, 2008
In an excellent video featuring Darren Rowse from ProBlogger, he talks about the reasons why he decided to remove AdSense from his website.
Darren was disappointed with the revenue being generated by AdSense on ProBlogger so he decided to experiment by completely removing all AdSense ads and trying some alternatives. Affiliate links and selling advertising space [...]
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by Stephen on October 4, 2008
I have just found a website where the owner is ranting and raving because his AdSense account has been banned by Google. As is usually the case, Google has “given no reason” for this apart from a violation of Google’s Terms of Service.
If I were to give you the address I am pretty sure you [...]
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by Stephen on October 4, 2008
It is quite natural for AdSense earnings to go up and down. If it happens consecutively for one or two days I tend not to worry, if it extends to three days my eyebrows are raised. I am now into that third day.
I decide it’s time to take a closer look
Managing several web sites through [...]
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by Stephen on September 15, 2008
Google AdSense is a contextual advertising program which allows website owners to generate income through their website. The website owner places a snippet of code into the pages of the website on which the adverts will be displayed, Google robots read the page and display adverts that are relevant to the page content.
For example, [...]
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by Stephen on September 12, 2008
The Google AdSense website is currently delivering an invalid security certificate when a user tries to log in. The error message I get is this:
www.google.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate will not be valid until 02/05/2008 18:02.
(Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)
A quick search on Google for the phrase “google adsense security certificate” brings back 25,000 results. [...]
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