Tag Archives: google adsense

Fri 11th December 2015
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Google files censure to take down Adsense click rascal site - Site purported to offer “no risk” way to increase Google Adsense revenue. Google has filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of the site AdsenseClickers.com in order to take over the domain name. [Update 1/11/16: Google won the case.] Until recently, the website at AdsenseClickers.com offered a service to help people boost their Google Adsense pay-per-click revenue. The service promised to send only real, natural traffic and promised “zero risk” to customers, but I wouldn’t believe ... read more ...
Fri 1st June 2012
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Flippa adds accurate Google Adsense revenue - Web site buyers can gain more confidence in revenue numbers. Flippa, a marketplace for web sites and domain names, has added a tool to verify Google Adsense revenue numbers for web sites. We all see sites for sale that claim huge Adsense revenue numbers. But how do you know if the person is telling the truth? It’s easy to fake stats. (That was the point behind DNWStats, by the way.) The new tool allows Flippa sellers to authorize Flippa to snag the numbers through ... read more ...
Fri 23rd September 2011
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Google AdSense to Start Displaying Gambling Ads - AdSense to show gambling ads, but with a number of caveats. Google Adsense will start showing gambling ads on its publishers web sites starting September 27, but many people will never see them. The ads will only show up for people visiting the site from a country where online gambling is legal. In other words, don’t expect to see them any time soon in the United States. Also, ads won’t show up on a site unless the AdSense publisher has opted in to showing gambling ... read more ...
Wed 7th September 2011
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Warning: Retargeted Ads a New Way for Trademark Holders to Go After Your Domains - Think your site doesn’t show ads related to a trademark? Think again. Have you ever noticed a Google Adsense ad that seems to have nothing to do with the context of the page you’re viewing? These are retargeted ads based on your previous web browsing. These ads may prove to be a new way for trademark owners to claim that your web site was designed to infringe on their marks. For years, trademark owners have manipulated the results on parked domain names to show ... read more ...
Tue 11th January 2011
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Google: Don’t Put AdSense on Sites with Unoriginal Content - AdSense can’t be placed on auto-generated sites with copied content. The latest “AdSense Facts Fiction” from the Google AdSense Blog addresses an issue that may affect domainers-turned-mass web site developers: Fiction: Publishers can put ads on auto-generated pages or other copied content that was not created by them. Fact: We don’t allow sites with auto-generated or otherwise unoriginal content to participate in the AdSense program. This is to ensure that ... read more ...
Mon 24th May 2010
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If Adsense Rev Share is a Same, Why is My Revenue Changing? - Revenue share will always be different from what lands in your pocket. Earlier today Google announced what percentage it is paying out to its self-service Adsense for Content and Adsense for Search publishers (68% and 51% respectively). It also announced that it hasn’t changed revenue share ever for Content and not since 2005 for Search (when it increased the payout). I immediately heard moans “then why has my revenue been going down?” There are a number of ... read more ...
Wed 10th February 2010
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Domain Parking Coming to .Tel - Domains that aren’t used for web sites to get Google ads. It was only a matter of time, right? .Tel registry Telnic announced that .tel domain name owners will soon by able to integrate Google Adsense into their domain names. That means they’ll be able to add Google’s pay-per-click ads to their .tel domain names through the .tel management interface. The net effect? You’ll be able to turn a .tel into a parked domain name full of ads. Technically, .tel users ... read more ...
Wed 13th January 2010
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Yahoo Gets Patent for Domain Parking Optimization - Yahoo gets a whopper of a patent for domain name parking optimization. Yahoo, one of the largest providers of advertising to parked domain names, has filed a patent application been granted a patent for optimizing the keyword links on “two-click” domain parking pages. U.S. patent 7,647,316 (pdf) for “Link Optimization” was filed March 5, 2007, and issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday. It describes a system that optimizes the keyword links ... read more ...
Wed 18th November 2009
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Webby Awards Gets it Wrong: Adsense Was Bigger than Adwords - Which was bigger, Adwords or Adsense? The latter changed more. The Webby Awards has put out its “Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade“, and I take issue with one of the listings. The list includes this entry from 2000: Google AdWords launches (2000) With the launch of AdWords in October 2000, Google turned advertising on its head. The self-service ad program opened up the marketplace to any business, no matter how big or small, and allowed advertisers ... read more ...
Thu 15th October 2009
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Beware a Google Adsense “Account Disabled” Phishing Scam - Phishing attempt hits Google Adsense account holders. With all of the talk about Adsense users finding their accounts disabled lately, users should be aware of a phishing scam playing on Adsense clients’ greatest fear: losing their account. Today I received an email purporting to be from Google telling me my account was disabled. And frankly, it’s the closest I’ve ever come to falling for a phishing attempt. That’s partly do to circumstance and partly because ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2009
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Adsense as a Platform and What it Means for Publishers - Google Adsense shows off its platform. Google Adsense is not an ad network. It’s an advertising platform, and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is taking steps to open it up. Adsense is taking its next step to opening up the platform by allowing other display advertising companies to place ads on Adsense Publishers’ sites. For example, Google may be able to offer you a $1 CPM on display ads on your site, while another ad network can offer $2. The other ad network’s ... read more ...
Wed 8th April 2009
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Domain Name News Bytes for Apr 8 - Brief notes about what’s going on in the domain world. There are a lot of stories I haven’t gotten to lately. Here they are in brief. Don’t want your WordPress site to get hacked? Richard Douglas, who helped me yesterday when it happened to me, put together a great post of WordPress security tips. Since many of you have asked about my conference schedule for the next few months, my current plans are to attend GeoDomain Expo in San Diego and Domain Roundtable ... read more ...
Wed 11th March 2009
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Google Now Targeting Ads to Users, Not Just Content - Domain name related ads may follow you to your favorite automotive site. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is introducing a new type of behavioral tracking to Google Adsense ads, the company announced on its Inside Adsense blog. Currently, content network ads served by Google include geo-targeting but the content is based solely on the content of the web page your are viewing. For example, Google Adsense ads on Domain Name Wire would likely be for domain name registration and ... read more ...
Fri 12th December 2008
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How “Google Direct” May Hurt You in a Long Run - Google Adsense for Domains’ mass-market approach will strain domain name industry. Almost all of us were surprised today when Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said it was opening up its Adsense for Domains program. It used to offer domain advertising relationships only to people with massive traffic, then it shut down the application process completely, and now it’s offering it up to anyone with a domain. From talking to a couple sources, it sounds like Google partners ... read more ...
Thu 4th December 2008
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VeriSign: Google Slowing Domain Name Registration Growth - Latest VeriSign report blames Google Adsense weakness for slowing domain registration growth rates. New domain name registrations are slowing, and VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) says Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) may be to blame. About 11.5 million new domain names were registered in the third quarter of this year, VeriSign reported in this month’s Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf). That’s a 2% decline from the previous quarter as well as over Q3 of 2007. When you look only ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2008
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Google Enables Better Traffic Arbitrage - New Adsense integration seems to be a lift for Adsense arbitrage. Huh. That was my reaction upon learning today that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will be integrating Google Adsense data into Google Analytics: In addition to the wealth of metrics already available in Analytics such as unique visitors and visitor language, you’ll now have access to granular reports that break down AdSense performance both by page and by referring site. Armed with this new data about user ... read more ...
Wed 25th June 2008
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Overcoming RSS (Repetitive Statistics Syndrome) - A look at a common affliction among domainers. Thousands of people suffer daily from Repetitive Statistics Syndrome (RSS). RSS is an obsessive compulsive disorder that involves checking revenue statistics from programs such as Google Adsense and domain parking multiple times a day. RSS sufferers know that checking their statistics repeatedly will not increase the final revenue number at the end of the day, but they can’t bring themselves to stop checking stats. ... read more ...