It has been a long time since I have last written about advertising opportunities. Mainly because of the lack of changes in the advertising setup here at Ghacks. Some things have changed in the last few months and I would like to kick of an advertising mini series with the article about Google’s Ad Planner, [...]
Protect your privacy from Google AdSense’s new behavioral ads
Google recently launched behavioral targeted ads for AdSense. This means AdSense displays adverts not only on the context of the webpage, but on the context of your browsing history. The aim is to provide more relevant and efficient adverts, but tracking cookies being used across hundreds of thousands of websites raises obvious privacy issues, as [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 4th, 2009
- Comments: 9
Adsense ads available for parked domains
Google is introducing a lot of developments for Adsense, with font selection implemented not long ago, now comes a new, much anticipated feature, Adsense for parked domains.
Many people own lots of domains which they keep around to sell at a higher price, or they simply haven’t gotten around to developing it, and as such, the [...]
Google Adsense Enables Font Selection
Normal Google Adsense users – those that do not have the status of a premium publisher – have always been at a severe disadvantage when customizing Adsense units. One of the major points of criticism over the year was the inability to change the default font mix that Google used to display Adsense units. You [...]
Disabled Adsense Ads for Regular Readers
I’m currently testing a Wordpress plugin that I always wanted to test but never had the opportunity to do it. It’s the Who Sees Ads plugin which allows the administrator to define rules on who is seeing ads on the website and who is not. I figured that regular readers would not click on ads [...]
New Adsense Clickzone consequences
Google changed the clickzones of their Adsense ad units and most webmasters are reporting decreases in their ad unit click through rate and revenue. Many have seen a decrease between 1-2% in click through rate which reduced the earnings by a figure between 30-70%.
Which Adsense Ads and Locations work best on my blog ?
If you ask ten webmasters about the best Adsense unit that is offered at the moment, the best color scheme for that unit and best location you would get ten different answers. There is no absolute truth, no way to setup Adsense that will earn you the most. It depends on so many factors that it is difficulty to give general tips.
