[25 Feb 2009 | 2 Comments | 39 views]
What is worse, the ad or the greedy blogger

Many people who own blogs have made the difficult decision to include or exclude ads on their blog. Offcourse ads can deliver you a steady revenue. On the other hand, ads seem to be able to damage the reputation of a blog.
Recently I started wondering whether this negativity towards ads is justified. Maybe it is the blogger who is the main cause for not properly implementing the ads and therewith damaging the user experience of his/her visitors?
I think that there …

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[11 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 152 views | ]
Google ad manager debug tool

Google Ad manager can be quite challenging if you insert several ads that are competing. The more complex your advertising schemes become, the more difficult it can get to analyze and verify the installation and ad placement.
One of the tools to use is the Google Ad manager debug tool. Actually it is very simple to open this tool. Move to your website and add the following code to the page “?google_debug”. The URL will look like this. You should change …

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[29 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 136 views | ]
Show ads to visitors who block Adsense

Unfortunately, there are still many people that block scripts in their browser. Since Adsense requires scripts, adsense ads will not be shown to these visitors.

Luckily there is a possibility to show these people other Ads only if scripts have been blocked and therewith Adsense has been limited.

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[27 Dec 2008 | 2 Comments | 474 views | ]
How to check if a domain you buy has an Adsense ban

Many of us buy websites to improve them and add Adsense to monetize the content. If you buy a domain, a possible old Adsense ban could severely damage the potential of that site.

There are several methods you verify whether there is an Adsense ban before you buy the domain.

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[23 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 181 views | ]
How to preview your Adsense ads real-time

When you make a change in your content you would like to see immediately how this impacts your Adsense ads.
One of the alternatives would be to hit refresh and wait for the new Ads to show up. This may take longer than you like and is rather inefficient.
A quick alternative is using Google’s own Adsense Preview tool.
Adsense preview tool
The Adsense preview tool is an addon for Internet Explorer (unfortunately). Nevertheless I use it regularly to have a preview of my …

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[20 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 73 views | ]
Be carefull with Adsense between Title and content

Many people have discovered that the spot between the title and content of your article returns a good CTR and ECPM. Please note however that this can lead to a Google Adsense ban.

If the ads do not specifically look like ads and if the title can be misinterpreted this configuration can be in violation with the Google Adsense TOS.

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