Written on July 1st, 2008 at 10:07 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense Retire their Referrals Program and Launch the Google Affiliate Network

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Today AdSense announced that they are drawing their ‘Referrals’ program to a close and are relaunching a new Google affiliate network. In actual effect the new affiliate network is not ‘new’ - but a rebranded version of DoubleClick’s Performics Affiliate Network which they acquired in March.
This is news that many of us expected - particularly […]

Written on June 25th, 2008 at 03:06 pm by Darren Rowse

How to Optimize Your AdSense Performance [VIDEO]

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Two Australian AdSense team members, Mel Ann and Tim, have put together a good introductory guide to optimizing AdSense.

It’s not advanced but if you’re just starting out with AdSense it’s worth a watch.

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Written on June 6th, 2008 at 01:06 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Announce Video Units for Australian and Japanese Publishers

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If you live in Australia or Japan you’ll want to check out the AdSense blog today because they’ve just announced that Video Units are now available to you as a publisher. They also mention that you ‘may’ be able to now become a YouTube partner and make money off your own videos (what ‘may’ means […]

Written on June 4th, 2008 at 10:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Feedburner AdSense Ads in the Wild

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Over the weekend news broke of the coming Feedburner and AdSense Integration.

Since then I’ve chatted to one of the team at Google about the integration and asked if I could see them in the wild somewhere. They shot me a link to this RSS feed where you can view them in Google Reader on each […]

Written on June 3rd, 2008 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse

Feedburner and AdSense Integration Coming Soon

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Over the weekend Feedburner have announced on their blog that the long awaited integration of AdSense ads into the Feedburner service is about to become a reality.
Google bought Feedburner last year and so this has been talked about for a while now - but in the coming weeks they’ll begin to run AdSense in the […]

Written on May 16th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

How to Split Test (A/B Test) Your AdSense Ads

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A couple of days ago I talked readers through some different approaches to AdSense Ad Design and how it can make a significant impact upon the earnings of your AdSense ads. At the end of the post I mentioned that one great way to work out which ad design is best for your blog is […]

Written on May 14th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

Ad Design - Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight

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Over the last week I’ve been covering a few tactics that can lead to a significant overnight increase in your earnings with AdSense (and other ad networks). So far we’ve looked at AdSense Ad Positioning and the number of AdSense ads on your page.

Today I want to talk about AdSense Ad Design - another key […]

Written on May 13th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

Putting More Ads On Your Page: Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight

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Last week I began a mini series of posts on tactics to increase your AdSense Earnings Overnight. In the first post I looked at the tactic of optimizing the position of your AdSense ads and shared my own journey of discovery in this area and the realization that I could significantly increase my AdSense ad […]

Written on May 10th, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

Ad Positioning: Tactics to Increase Your AdSense Earnings Overnight

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In this series I’m examining tactics that can be used to increase AdSense earnings immediately. Read the introduction to this series here.
Today I want to talk about positioning your AdSense ads - something that has a very significant impact upon the amount of money that they are able to earn.
I learned this lesson after I’d […]