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Avatar Went Hot: October 30, 2008 - 5:44 am
Posted By: rustybrick 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Google, for the fourth time that I know of, has messed up the exchange rate that they pay publishers outside of the US. Of course, each time, this is in favor of Google paying less to publishers. 4 times!?!?!?! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 2:28 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Just doesn't seem to me like the kind of thing they would normally condone. This isn't even one of those "accidental" ads that sometimes pop up due to keyword insertion in the ad. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 29, 2008 - 1:03 am
Posted By: evilgreenmonkey 66 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.out-law.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Publishers must take responsibility for the suitability of published adverts, even if the ads are chosen by an automated system like Google's AdSense, the UK advertising regulator has said. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 23, 2008 - 2:09 am
Posted By: markus941 100 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Seth Godin has an article today called ads are the new tip jar, where he advocates clicking on Google adsense to help bloggers get paid for their work. Michael is right - this needs to be discussed more as to why it's a terrible idea. read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2008 - 8:03 am
Posted By: crashingflwrgrl 107 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Google AdSense
When you view the Google cache of many individual status messages, the Twitter users picture and name are laid right on top of a Google AdSense ad. [sarcasm] Wow, the advertisers must be loving the quality of that traffic! [/sarcasm] read more »
28 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 8:09 am
Posted By: MikeDammann 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchfeature.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Google seems to feature ads TO your site ON your site. This is obviously wasting webmasters' money. Surprised to see that there is not some sort of filter to prevent this from happening. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 12:46 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 165 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Seriously, first comic sans and now variations of Times, Plain Serif, No Serif, Vanilla and Arial. At least I hear CTR is up. :) read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 8:33 am
Posted By: mvandemar 173 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google AdSense
If you're an AdSense publisher, and you're not using the free widget, it's time to update your privacy policies again. :) read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 7:11 am
Posted By: mvandemar 182 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google AdSense
A nice little tool I built to help easily stay in line with the new AdSense privacy requirements as far as third party ad providers go. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 15, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 263 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Google Webmaster Central and the Google Search Quality team have a new ally in the global fight against Web spam, cloaking, paid links, link farms and other non-sanctioned schemes: the Security Group at the University of Cambridge.

Web sites crea read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 10:27 am
Posted By: rustybrick 292 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdSense
25% of the AdSense publishers I polled took in over $5,000 in 2007 from AdSense. But 33% took in less than $50. Which one are you? :-) read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 6:36 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 311 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.domaintools.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Domain Tools reports that Google will stop allowing "domain tasters" to register a domain, slap Adsense on it for a couple days and make $$, then drop the domain. Quote: "A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 10, 2008 - 4:09 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 326 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google AdSense
Andy Beard: "For me the obvious reason why they would restrict this to only partners in certain counties is fraud, or gaming the system. Google is made up of regional offices, so it would be hard to separate Eastern Europe from the rest of Europe, o read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 12, 2007 - 3:50 pm
Posted By: northrock 355 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.problogger.net)
Category: Google AdSense
People are reporting seeing a new type of AdSense ad appearing on their blogs - ads with little arrow buttons on them which rotate ads. Here’s how they look... read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 3, 2007 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: MattSawyer 364 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.clicks.ws)
Category: Google AdSense
I’m wondering if there’s any connection between this and a thread on Digitalpoint that claims their ads are being blocked. There’s some confusion that the missing ads may be related to some database errors that the site was having last week, though read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 2, 2007 - 8:55 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Google sells ads at a low cost because it doesn't have to pay for the content. Most of the content they use to monetize is harvested from the Internet for free. If you pay editors & writers to create content (or do it yourself) you are at a huge dis read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 13, 2007 - 12:01 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 384 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Google emailed me that they are changing what constitutes a click on AdSense ads. They are implementing the same rules they have with AdWords ads. A click on the title or URL is a click, but a click on the background of the ad will no longer be a read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 12, 2007 - 5:33 am
Posted By: aimClear 385 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdSense
SearchEngineRoundTable TWICE reported Google AdSense publishers' checks bounced. How can one of the world's richest companies checks SEEM so rubbery? Read the SEORoundTable Post for info about your AdSense checks. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2007 - 9:05 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 402 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.usatoday.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Alonzy, 57, now makes $120,000 a year from the ads Google places on his Natural Handyman website, and he couldn't be more thrilled. "I put in two, maybe three hours a day on the site, and the checks pour in," he says. "What's not to like?" read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 10, 2007 - 8:46 am
Posted By: flyingrose 448 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mobilejones.com)
Category: Google AdSense
From the page: "Are you sure? Do you know who Google is? You’re kidding me, right?” She says she does know who Google is, but that this particular account doesn’t have enough funds to cover my check."

More from the page: "I say to the teller, “Ho read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 29, 2007 - 8:34 pm
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 460 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Is Google just completely inept, despite have a gargantuan amount of money and brain power behind it? read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2007 - 7:01 pm
Posted By: dalka 482 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.daviddalka.com)
Category: Google AdSense
After hearing Barry Schwartz get a bit riled up on the DailySearchCast, I decided to interview him briefly on the issue of splogs and Adsense. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 3, 2007 - 10:23 am
Posted By: rustybrick 486 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google AdSense
I am honestly tired on how Google makes it easy to report spam and paid links in Google Webmaster Central but AdSense makes you go through hoops to report stolen content.

To report an AdSense account stealing content, you need to file a DMCA requ read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 3, 2007 - 10:02 am
Posted By: stephan 487 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.cnet.com)
Category: Google AdSense
SEO may seem like "rocket science" to some (like Dave Pasternack!), but one teen has cracked the code, turning knowledge of SEO and Neopets into an income-generating asset. read more »
12 Comments     


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