Now here’s some great news for hobby bloggers. Karin, laid off from her job at a legal firm in New York, moved to St. Louis and started up a food blog writing about restaurant promotions for the area called, STL Meal Deals back in April. She monetized the blog with Google Adsense and was earning [...]
How to Triple Your Google Adsense Earnings
I’m terrible about checking my Google Adsense earnings. I occasionally login to confirm that the amount on the check equals the amount reported in the Google Adsense interface… occasionally. So, when I logged in this morning to review the reports, I was surprised (and delighted) to notice that this month’s earnings are more than triple [...]
Amoureux: NOT So Amorous Towards Affiliates
How long have we been in the business of affiliate marketing? A dozen years or more? Well you’d figure that merchants with affiliate programs – especially those affiliated with Commission Junction would know better than to place Google Adsense on their affiliate’s landing pages… see the screenshot below. My advice? Drop ‘em if you got [...]
How to REALLY Profit with Google Adsense
Placing Google Adsense on your site is a strategy that will put money in your pockets even if your visitors don’t buy. However, in the same way you need to be smart about choosing lucrative affiliate programs, you also want to do your homework when monetizing topics with Adsense. Here are some important tips… I [...]
Google to End Adsense for Video Program
On the ‘Inside Adsense‘ blog, Google writer Arlene Lee states “After reviewing our AdSense video units feature, which allows you to show YouTube content and ads on your pages, we’ve found that it hasn’t had the impact we had hoped for” and that they’ll be terminating the program at the end of April. Or, in [...]
Google Adsense Referals to Retire in August
If you currently use Google Adsense referals on your site, you should know that the code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August. Unless you change or remove the referal code, a blank space will appear in their place. Google is therefore encouraging publishers to replace all referral ad code on [...]
Joel Comm’s Google Adsense Secrets – Now Free
On Wednesday, April 16th at 12 noon EST, Joel Comm made the long-awaited 4th edition of Google AdSense Secrets available for download. Read by more people than any other AdSense book on the planet, it is widely considered ‘the bible’ of all things Adsense. Covering everything from AdSense optimization and case studies to ad tracking [...]
