Friday, August 25th, 2006

12 Reasons Why AdSense Earnings Rarely Scale with Blog Size

So, your 100-post blog brings in $2 per day. Will it bring in $4 a day once you write another 100 posts? In many cases, especially for medium-sized blogs that have reached a certain degree of stability, probably not. This is often true even if your traffic does double when you double the number of […]

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

AdSense Search Results on Your Own Blog (Not Working for Me)

I’m not sure if you’ve heard it yet, but Google is now allowing the search results of your AdSense search boxes to open in a page on your own blog. But even after following the official instructions in the AdSense Help Center, I can’t get it to work on this blog. I’m getting a blank […]

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

More “Hidden” AdSense Ads

Sneaky, or rather, creative means of blending AdSense adverts are commonplace. We’ve seen our fair share of them here, with this hidden link unit (or rather, used to be) being one example.
Here’s yet another creative piece of ad placement, courtesy of WorkBoxers:

As usual, whether this sort of placement adheres to Google AdSense’s Terms of Service […]

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Recent Google News Bites

Along with the recent Joel Comm saga has been a slew of interesting blog posts, announcements and rumors related to our two favourites, Google Search and Google AdSense:

“Vertical Image” Ads, a.k.a. Image + Text = New Ad FormatGoogle is having an international beta test on its new ad format, where a contextually-relevant image is placed […]

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Joel Comm’s “Made for AdSense” Saga

Leave a blog for a few days, and thousands of interesting stories pass by. One of the most interesting throughout the past week must have been the hoo-hah over Joel Comm’s upcoming “Made for AdSense” programme, i.e. Instant AdSense Templates.
If you want some background on the issue, I suggest reading the extended coverage by […]

Friday, June 16th, 2006

“Hidden” AdSense Link Unit

While randomly surfing the web recently, I came across an AdSense vertical link unit blended in a way I’ve never seen before. I’m not sure how unique it is to you since you could have either seen it (the site I found it on, Blogger Templates, is very popular) or done it before, but here’s […]

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Adsense Video Ads Out of Beta

JenSense reports that Adsense video ads have “graduated” from the rich media beta test to become part of the Adsense ad lineup, but these ads will only be available to AdWords advertisers in the United States, Canada and Japan.
Both CPM and CPC video ads will be available, and like Adsense’s text and image ads, the […]

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Adsense: Some Interesting News

This post was not pre-written, but I am still on vacation in South Korea. As such, I might not be able to respond to any comments posted here. Thanks for understanding.
Just a short link post for a couple of interesting news pieces I just read over at JenSense:

Adsense Webmaster Guidelines Changed QuietlyGoogle has quietly added […]