Increase Your Adsense Income by 86% in 15 Minutes
April 16, 2009 by Will Reinhardt · 9 Comments
In August I made what I thought were normal ongoing adjustments of my Adsense settings. My “wow” moment came a few weeks later when I realized that my moving average was holding steady at a previously unthinkable level. I was using the same content and there was no increase in traffic, yet Adsense was outperforming itself by 86% with very little effort on my part. How is this possible? The following two steps should take you about 15 minutes to apply to a single site (depending on how complicated your layout is).
Do Your Web Page Views Make An Impression?
April 8, 2009 by Barry Welford · 4 Comments
We are not concerned here with the first impression that a website visitor may get on seeing your web page in the Blink of an eye. Rather it is about just how many visitors get to see that web page. That number is the most simple of metrics to confirm how a web page is performing in traffic terms. Here we explore how best to capture that number.
Create Executive Reports for Adsense
March 19, 2009 by Will Reinhardt · 3 Comments
If you or a client operate several sites that utilize Adsense to improve monthly revenue then you may have struggled with the best way to present that information in your reports. The following approach is how our company organizes information for our clients, and it works well enough that we’ve adopted it for our own sites. We now actively look forward to the first of the month so that we can see how our sites have been performing.
A Widget Solves My Google Adsense Rant
June 2, 2008 by DazzlinDonna · 6 Comments
Last week I ranted about a couple of things that Google did that just really got my goat. (That means they annoyed me, for anyone who doesn’t recognize that old slang). So as I do, I ranted and raved and moaned and groaned until someone decided to solve the problem for me.
Google Releases Adsense Feature and Then Pulls It
August 29, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 9 Comments
Yesterday, the world buzzed about Google finally releasing a feature to all Adsense publishers that allows them to give Google a list of “allowed sites”. This is a list of all sites that the publisher confirms is allowed to show their ads. Any site not on the list, is not approved by the publisher, and will not be counted. This would prevent scraper sites or anyone else from showing a publisher’s Adsense ads and subsequently getting the publisher banned through no fault of their own. This allowed sites feature had been in the testing phase for a while, but was finally rolled out to all publishers yesterday.
Wasting your clicks on unrelated sex-themed parked domains
May 27, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Smackdown has outlined how Google is displaying your PPC ads on porn-related parked domains. How well do you think those clicks convert for you? And yet, you are paying for those clicks. Considering that Google does not allow Adsense publishers whose sites are porn-related to display Adsense ads, why is that a parked domain with an obvious porn-related domain name can? This is just another example of why so many Adwords advertisers opt out of the content network. Go read the Smackdown post, as it details the problem nicely. And then tell Google that you don’t want them to waste your hard-earned PPC dollars this way.
Greed and evil?
February 1, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 2 Comments
Adsense is evil? That’s what John Scott states in his recent post about the devaluation of advertising impressions and quality of web content that Adsense has created. I really can’t disagree. MFA sites (Made-For-Adsense) have caused a huge problem in so many ways. And yes, I’ve even played around with MFAs to see what the result would be. It didn’t take long to realize that an MFA site is worthless, unless perhaps you are creating thousands of them. But that’s not my game. But I’ve long thought that Google should tighten their control over the Adsense program. I keep trying to find a reason why they don’t, and I have to assume it’s greed. So, maybe Adsense IS evil.
My thoughts on Google, click fraud, terrorism sponsorship and more
December 8, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Obviously, the Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal story about Google possibly helping fund terrorists groups by displaying ads on terrorist sites has brought about a large response. Yes, the article title is obviously designed for linkbait. Yes, it appears that the slant of the article is geared more towards the terrorist angle, merely for sensationalism, when the real meat of the story is a little more hidden because it is less linkbait-worthy.
Adsense now showing invalid clicks and the money taken back
November 6, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 5 Comments
From Tony Hill and a DP forum thread, comes the amazing news that Adsense is now showing publishers how much money they’ve taken back because of invalid clicks! If you go to My Account / Payment History and click on one of the Earnings links, you’ll see a summary of the earnings, which now supposedly include how much Google has taken back due to invalid clicks. Now, I can’t confirm this because mine doesn’t show any invalid clicks, but I don’t know if that’s because I haven’t had any, or this rumor is untrue. If, however, it is true, then I think this is a GREAT move on the part of Google. Let me know if you see it in your account.
Wise Words for Those Seeking Income from the Internet
March 28, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 6 Comments
This post is geared towards newbies, but even experienced web entrepreneurs may get a spark of inspiration. And while the forum thread that I am referencing is targeted towards making money via Adsense, the wisdom can be applied throughout the broader spectrum of Internet business, or business in general.
The end of CPC for Google?
February 23, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 5 Comments
According to the rumormill, Google Wallet is not only coming, but it will end the problem of click fraud for Google. Supposedly, a click-through would only result in payment once the user purchases something from the advertised site, using Google Wallet of course. Exit CPC, Enter CPA.
