AdMoolah News and Views

Google can and will kick you out of the AdSense program if they find out
that you have been violating the terms of the agreement with them. The rules are outlined
in policies of the AdSense program.

Not only will they kick you out of AdSense and ban you for life, they will
keep any money that you have earned in the program. It’s worth the effort to
play by the rules!’

Some of the things you need to make sure you avoid are:

• Clicking on you own links. This is known-as click fraud and is probably the
  fastest way to get banned from AdSense.
• Encouraging other to click on you links. You can’t say ‘Please click my links so
  I can buy a beer today’. Google even frowns upon having an arrow pointing to
  your ads.
• Displaying ads on an error page, registration page or thank you page.
  The page must be a real content page.

These are just a few of the ways to get onto Google’s bad side. I strongly encourage
you to read the policy yourself, and re-read them whenever you make major changes
to your site.

The best way to not make any money using AdSense is to get kicked out of the program,
so be careful. If you have any doubts, email Google with your questions, they
are always very helpful.

Google has announced a beta program for their Google AdSense for Feeds Program. People have been talking about this coming for some time now. It seems like a great new revenue stream for AdSense publishers. I’d love to join but there is a requirement of 100 active subscribers, which I don’t think I have yet.

(Found via John Battelle’s Searchblog)

I’m going to write a series of entries about getting the most out of AdSense. Most of the information in here will be familiar to those who have done a lot of reading about AdSense, but some beginners might get something out of these entries, and the more experienced users could always use reminders.

The list of topics that I’ve currently got planned are:

• Complying with AdSense policies
• Ad formats
• Custom colors
• Ad positioning
• Experimentation
• High paying click
• Ads per page
• Relevant ads
• Asking Google for help
• Alternate ads
• Emulate success
• Search boxes
• Blogging

No guarantees that the topics will stay that way, or of the order.

Look for the first entry within the next few days.

Google has come up with a neat “Heat Map” to their optimization tips page.

It helps you visualize the best places on the page to put your ads. I like it a lot! Expect to see the position of the ads on AdMoolah.com to change soon

(Source: JenSense)

In case anyone missed it, Google is going to be offering AdSense inside of RSS feeds. See Longhorn Blogs entry on this.

This means we should see the earnings numbers for the Blog category go up once these ads go public.

Google has a new enhancement to their AdWords program called
Site Targeted Ads.

Site targeting lets advertisers choose individual sites in the Google content network where they’d like their ads to appear. Since Google first introduced AdWords, advertisers have asked us for the ability to run their ads on specific websites. Site targeting gives our users that ability, while also allowing their ads to compete for ranking with traditional keyword-targeted AdWords ads. It’s one more tool that AdWords advertisers can use to bring their message to highly-targeted groups of web users.

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The program is in beta right now and only available to a few advertisers, but it will eventually be available to all advertisers.

This could have some serious consequences to AdSense revenues. High quality, popular websites will be in high demand, and start earning more. Lower quality, less poplar sites will not be chosen by advertisers, reducing their earnings potential.

There is additional coverage at JenSense and SearchEngineWatch.

I’m curious to find out what other AdSense publishers think. Use the comments link below to share your thoughts.