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July 3rd, 2008

Google Launches Affiliate Network

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)  is rebranding Doubleclick Inc. as Google Affiliate Network .   So google is now taking on the Affiliate network industry and competes with affiliate network heavyweights such as ValueClick’s Commission Junction and LinkShare.
This move isn’t a surpise since google has been in the business for quite some time with its google adsense program […]

By Noel -- 1 comment

July 2nd, 2008

Adsense Referrals Will Be Retired By August

Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Adsense Referrals (not Adsense itself) will be retired by end of August.   This was due to the integration of Doubleclick to Google Affiliate Network.  They would like to focus more on the Affiliate network.
Adsense referrals  works like an affiliate program wherein you make money when a new person enters the adsense program […]

By Noel -- 1 comment

March 11th, 2008

Diagnosing and Treating Adsense Revenue Fluctuation

Google has recently made a very good post in its adsense blog on how to diagnose and treat adsense revenue fluctuations.
The post gives you an idea on what to look out for when diagnosing the cause of the revenue fluctuation, and most importantly, the possible solutions and things to do next to “treat” your […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

February 25th, 2008

Google Video Ads - Adsense for Video

Eversince Google created video.google.com and later on purchased youtube.com it is no doubt that someday, they will introduce video ads as well. It’s just a matter of time.
This gives youtube users who frequently upload original video content a way to monetize their videos. However, if one doesn’t have original video content, […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

August 13th, 2007

The Indecisive Adsense Bot

Just another issue in Google’s automated machine appeared last week with an Adsense publisher being banned after being specifically permitted to act in such way.
The WebmasterWorld story tells about an Internet cafe owner with about 60 kiosks around Las Vegas who created a custom default homepage with Adsense ads and a Google search box. This […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

July 18th, 2007

Adsense Crawler Can Now Crawl Protected Areas

The Adsense blog announced that their crawler is now able to crawl password protected areas, if given the right credentials off course. This new addition comes to allow publishers with premium content areas have better targeted contextual ads in their protected areas.
To enable “Site Authentication” simply login to your Adsense account and follow the […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

May 22nd, 2007

Google’s Attempts to Clean up Their Ad Network

An extensive Webmasterworld thread developing over the past week is outlining Google’s plan to “get rid” of publishers whose business model revolves around sending Adwords traffic to an MFA (Made for Adsense) site in an attempt to profit from the margin between the cost and the revenue (a.k.a search arbitrage).
In the thread, several publishers described […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

May 14th, 2007

Adsense Gone Wrong

YPN and Adcenter have been getting a lot of slack about their relevancy, slack which Google managed to get away with due to their great Adsense platform. However, sometimes, even Google goes wrong and in this case it isn’t even the wrong text ad but an ad which I found on a very popularity celebrity […]

By Gilad -- 1 comment

April 4th, 2007

Adsense Adds “Recent Messages” to Homepage

Inside Adsense posted yesterday about the new addition of a new “Recent Messages” section to each account. These message will include, for the most part, results & suggestions from Google’s automatic analysis of one’s pages in an attempt to help improve performance.
We’re happy to let you know that this is your personal inbox where we’ll […]

By Gilad -- 1 comment