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Adsense

Removed Site Targeting

December 12, 2006

I know there were a few people who were using site targeting on this blog, and it wasn’t something I had a problem with. However on one of my other websites site targeting was being used so much that my earnings were spiraling downward. Since there is no way to turn of site targeting on [...]

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Google Adsense for Video Beta Program

August 30, 2006

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Google Adsense for video ads. Initially I was told this blog was approved, which seemed a little odd to me as the content really didn’t match. After some back and forth earlier this week they decided choose another of my websites instead. In a way I’m glad because the content [...]

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Suggestions for Adsense

July 7, 2006

Hey Google Adsesne how about giving people the ability to call for a “fresh visit” and content reassessment so the adsense ads will target better. Sometimes we make typos or use phrase that call for the wrong ads to be delivered. Sure I can test it by throwing an irrelevant parameter on the URL but [...]

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Understanding Adsense Patent Review

May 24, 2006

Eric Giguère of Make Easy Money With Google Adsense published an Adsense Patent Review and sent me a copy to review. Now I’m not a big fan of overly technical documents or patents but they are something we have to deal with in this industry, so you’ve either got to learn to read them and [...]

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Adding Value in Comments

April 26, 2006

I know comment spam is not only a headache and time sucking machine, but I’m also firmly of the opinion that comments and discussions can often add value to an original post.  Since I have no qualms about shameless self promotion I’ll point you in the direction of a comment I made today over on [...]

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Adsense Arbitrage: Automation and Button Pushing

April 6, 2006

As we saw in part II AdSense Arbitrage: Keyword Selection, finding the right set of circumstances where AdSense Arbitrage is going to work requires a bit of work. You’ve got to get a large enough set of related keywords, get some prices, and then compare and look for the right opportunity. If you read Rae’s [...]

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AdSense Arbitrage: Keyword Selection

April 5, 2006

In part I AdSense Arbitrage: Tips, Tricks & Secrets we went over the basics of how AdSense arbitrage works. In this part we’re going to roll up our sleeves and look at some actual keywords and see if we can find some areas where we might like to try some arbitrage.

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AdSense Arbitrage: Tips, Tricks & Secrets

April 4, 2006

If you frequent any of the AdSense forums chances are you’ve come across the phrase ‘AdSense Arbitrage‘, while it’s been around for a while a lot of people don’t understand what it is, or how it works. While I’m not a big player in the arbitrage model I’ve been doing it profitably for a few [...]

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How to Fix AdSense Referrals

March 2, 2006

Eric Giguere is talking about the change from 90 days to 180 days for AdSense referrals (see AdSense Deferrals)
Well, maybe it helps. Call me cynical, but for me this is just a deferral of non-income.
You know what he’s right. If i had a say over at the Googleplex (clearly something that’s not going to [...]

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Clickbots and the Wisdom of Rosie Perez

February 27, 2006

So yesterday one of my websites was targeted by a clickbot. They executed the exact same search 400 times from the exact same search engine, visited a few pages on the websites and then clicked on an Adsense ad. Now I’m not sure if it was a script kiddie playing a prank or a malicious [...]

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AdSense Success in one Sentence

February 13, 2006

Darren nails it with this statement:
AdSense tends to work at it’s best when a blogger targets a narrower niche topic, especially when that topic has some sort of product or service associated with it.

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Site Targeting and Niche Blogging

February 4, 2006

I’m not the first one to say this, and I surely won’t be the last but if you use AdSense on your blog you really need to pick a niche topic and stick with it. This point become especially important if you allow site targeting on your blog. I have advertisers who target this blog [...]

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Adsense: Why Bloggers Don’t Get It

July 29, 2005

In doing the research for my series of Adsense articles, two common ideas kept getting repeated:

My Adsense ads are horrible, they only pay out (insert low dollar figure here)

My Adsense CTR is horrible, I only get a (insert extremely low CTR here)

To be fair these comments weren’t coming just from bloggers, but bloggers did make [...]

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Make Easy Money With Google Review

July 28, 2005

I had seen Make Easy Money with Google (aff) being mentioned in quite a few spots and was pretty interested in reading it. Due a problem with something else I ordered I received a credit, so I applied it towards the purchase of this book.
Make Easy Money with Google is written by Eric Giguere who’s [...]

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Google Adsense Forums, Blogs and Resources

July 27, 2005

Here is a list of notable resources if you want to find out, and stay on top off Google’s Adsense program. I’ve included some obvious links and some low volume forums as well, in an effort to be through. Be careful about what you read and try if you venture too far off the beaten [...]

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Google Adsense Tips, Tricks, and Secrets

July 26, 2005

I’ve been reading a few forums and blogs about Google Adsense tips lately, and thought it would be helpful to consolidate as many as possible in one place without the comments. I’ve also thrown in a few tips of my own. We start out with some of the basic general stuff and move to the [...]

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Google Adsense

July 25, 2005

t seems every few days I’ve been reading about someone joining the Adsense UPS club (over $10k per month), or coming out with the latest website, book, or blog on how to make more money with Google’s Adsense. So I decided to gather up some tips from across the web and mix in a few [...]

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Adsense Related Products Reviews

July 25, 2005

I’m working on a multi-part multi-day posting about adsense and adsense related products. If you or your company have one and would like it included let me know about it. I will be giving my honest opinion good or bad about anything I do review.

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Adsense Light Bulb Moment

June 7, 2005

I was reading something from Seth Godin today and came across one of those things we all know, then forget, and need to be reminded of from time to time:
Most blogs have a center well of the “new stuff” and then links and ads along the sides. And it’s pretty sacrosanct that you put the [...]

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