AdSense Launches “Contributor”— Um… I’m Not Impressed
AdSense has a new feature and I reeeeeeeally don’t get it. This has got to be the oddest monetization model I’ve seen in a while. Apparently Google believes some people hate ads so much, they’d...
View ArticleDon’t Ignore The Latest Google AdSense Notice – The Deadline is Sept. 30th
You may have received a notice from Google AdSense reminding you to ensure your site complies with the EU user consent policy. You have until September 30, 2015. European laws require that digital...
View ArticleLet’s Talk AdSense in 2015 – Are You Earning Less?
I get quite a few questions about AdSense earnings, and a lot of people set their sights on earning a living with AdSense. But how realistic is that today? Can you make thousands of dollars per month...
View ArticleMy AdSense Earnings Breakdown – Let’s Compare Stats!
You don’t typically hear from me twice in one week, but my stats show how much you guys love AdSense-related posts, so I hope you don’t mind a double dose of Lisa this week. I was playing around in the...
View ArticleGoogle AdSense: How to Attract High-Paying Ads, Myths and More Tips!
The AdSense program has been under a lot of scrutiny over the past few years. Even I’ve been openly critical about some of the aspects of the program such as lack of transparency, minimal support for...
View ArticleHow to Use The New AdSense Experiment Tool to Compare Unit Performance
A few weeks ago, Google quietly rolled out AdSense Experiments. Now you can do A/B split testing on your units without editing the code on your site. So for example, if you want to see how changing...
View ArticleThe Google AdSense Scorecard – Why I’m Ignoring Parts of It
No doubt you’ve noticed the scorecard that appears in your Performance reports for AdSense. In a nutshell, this image gives you an idea of how your site is doing health-wise (page speed, crawl errors)...
View ArticleWhy It Pays to Be Patient With Google AdSense
Have you tried the 300×600 unit on your site yet? I finally added it to one of my higher trafficked pages (within the content) just to see how it will pan out. The first week… I had deplorable...
View ArticleNotice Anything Strange With Your Google AdSense Reports & Earnings?
Did someone unplug the main power supply cord over at the Google HQ’s? I joke, but I’ve read so many complaints about their various products in recent weeks and most of them involve reporting. From...
View ArticleConfusing Messages From The Google AdSense Optimization Team
I was having lunch recently with Sunil from The Extra Money Blog, and as we were chowing down on our Pei Wei (yummy), the topic of AdSense surfaced. Sunil attended one of the AdSense in Your City...
View ArticleMaking Sense of AdSense Reports & Maximizing Your Earnings (Video)
Last week I wrote about the new and improved Ad Review Center (ARC) that began rolling out last month. Now that my account has been upgraded, I wanted to publish a video that highlights some of the ARC...
View ArticleGoogle Gives AdSense Publishers More Control
One of the biggest gripes I hear about AdSense is the minimal amount of control Publishers have over the ads that are shown. Well, in case you haven’t heard, Google is about to roll out a new version...
View ArticleHow to Minimize Your Chances of AdSense Click Fraud and Getting Banned
People often ask me for help when it comes to dealing with disabled AdSense accounts and preventing click fraud. So I did some digging over the weekend. You may not realize it, but Google has quite a...
View Article$365 in AdSense Earnings For One Day
If you follow me on YouTube, you probably saw my video about my phone call with Google. As stated, I didn’t learn too much from that call, but I did implement three things that seem to have made a...
View ArticleTai’s YouTube Earnings & His Message for You!
If you follow my Facebook page, you may have seen the picture I posted last week of myself and Tai, who playfully calls himself “The Asian Wonder.” We met at a local WordPress meetup on September...
View ArticleMy AdSense Earnings Breakdown – Let’s Compare Stats!
You don’t typically hear from me twice in one week, but my stats show how much you guys love AdSense-related posts, so I hope you don’t mind a double dose of Lisa this week. I was playing around in the...
View ArticleHow Thesis Helped Boost My AdSense Earnings
You may remember me mentioning how well the 728×90 AdSense unit has been performing on this blog. Since then, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how I added it. So I thought I’d create a video...
View Article7 AdSense Strategies You Should Adopt
1. Make room for the 728×90 banner — if you can Obviously you don’t want to crowd your site or make it look awkward, but if your experience with this unit size is anything like mine, you may want to...
View ArticleAre You Getting This AdSense Alert in Your Account?
You may have seen this after logging in to your AdSense account… Your ads have recently appeared on websites you haven’t authorized. To avoid lost revenue, make sure to authorize any sites where you...
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