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Message from Google Adsense Optimization Team

Reaper-X — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:30:50 +0000

Okay so yesterday when i checked my adsense account, i just noticed that there’s a message on my adsense reports page … and to be honest, this is the first time ever i saw this message because previously it just left blank until yesterday (actually at first i thought that the Recent Message section on the reports page is just for decoration purpose only lol)

But the question is … what is the subject of the message actually that makes me interested on posting it ?

While here’s the actual message read :

Dear Publisher,

Here is your optimization report for the month of November. After an automatic review of your sites, we think you might be able to improve your monetization using the following tips:

You may be filtering ads that monetize well on your site.
How can I fix this? Dismiss this tip.

We hope these tips are helpful, and encourage you to experiment using different layouts and formats—no two sites monetize the same way!

Sincerely,
Google Adsense

and here’s the screenshot :

Based from the above message, it seems that some of the url’s listed on my Google Adsense Competitive ad-filter might be able to improve my monthly earnings, and fortunately since there are only several urls listed on my competitive ad-filter page i can guess on which one to remove :D (beside i just put those url’s several days ago)

Anyhow … i’m really glad when i saw this message, because it really save my time from testing the competitive filter list :)

As a side note, i’m not the first publisher to receive this message because there are some other adsense publisher that receives this message as well … such as Dave Taylor from Askdavetaylor and Rusty Brick from SERoundTable

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google Adsense, Journal, Making Money

Google Adsense for Mobile now available

Reaper-X — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:36:43 +0000

Google just recently announced the new adsense for mobile format to those who’s running a mobile website. Here are some excerpts taken from the Google Press Center :

AdSense for Mobile is intended for AdSense partners who have created websites specifically for mobile browsers, and who want to monetize their mobile content via contextual advertising. Like Google’s other AdSense products, mobile text ads run on an auction model. The system automatically reviews the content of publishers’ mobile websites and delivers text ads that are relevant to the websites’ audience and content. Publishers earn money whenever mobile users click on the ads.

Unfortunately it seems that even if you own a website that is using English language you can’t still using this adsense for mobile, and that’s because i get this message on my adsense setup page :

We do not currently offer AdSense for Mobile in Indonesia.

So i guess that mean, this new adsense for mobile can only be used for publisher that is located in the following countries : US, England, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Russia, Netherlands, Australia, India, China, and Japan

Anyhow, even if i can still access the new mobile adsense options, i don’t think placing adsense on mobile supported web pages is a good idea, because most mobile users that use their mobile phone to surf around the web can be considered as tech savvy users that don’t usually click on ads. And could make them stop visiting your mobile page completely

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google Adsense, Income Sources, Making Money

Adsense checks in local currency

Reaper-X — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:13:42 +0000

Well .. yesterday, i logged in into my adsense account and i saw a message there saying that right now it is possible for me to set the adsense payment using my local currency automatically (in this case it was Indonesian Rupiah)

But what’s the big deal about it ? well .. here’s what the adsense help center explain about local currency in adsense

Local currency checks: Google will convert your earnings from US dollars into your local currency if this option is selected. Available to publishers in more than 40 countries, local currency checks are generally less expensive to deposit at your bank, and take less time to clear. For instructions on selecting local currency checks as your form of payment, read How do I sign up for local currency checks?

And as you can see that by using local currency checks, i can clear my adsense checks faster than the usual (although i havent tried it yet because i only saw it yesterday) and they said that it would be less expensive to cashed it

But what make it strange is, when i look at the supported countries that Google was able to send checks in local currency. Indonesia wasnt listed there :( … hm … i guess this new feature is still new for Indonesian adsense users

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google Adsense, Income Sources, Internet, Making Money

Google Adsense has new beta referrals program

Reaper-X — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:08:45 +0000

Most of you already know about adsense which is based on pay-per-click, but now Google Adsense add new referrals program for the adsense publisher which is based on pay-per-action program. Here’s the short description about this new Google Referrals program from the Google Adsense blog :

As with our current Google referrals, you’ll generate earnings when your visitors click through to an advertiser’s site and complete an action defined by your advertisers, such as a sale or sign-up. Because these actions are often more involved than a simple click or impression, advertisers pay more for these referrals, which can translate into higher earnings for your site

As you can see that this new program is just like the old pay-per-click type, with an addition that your site visitors must complete an action defined by the advertisers first

Unfortunately this beta program only open for specific publishers only (i’m pretty sure that most of the new publishers that is getting accepted with this beta program are large publishers only / or those who’s having large site)

But just in case you’re interested on trying the new referrals beta program, you can sign up from here

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Google Adsense, Income Sources, Making Money, Tech News

Is it necessary to use Adsense click tracking program ?

Reaper-X — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:28:29 +0000

I think most of you have already heard about various site which is using adsense as their monetization source getting banned from Google adsense because Google suspect them of click fraud activity even though they’ve done nothing wrong although only God knows who’s telling the truth. And because of it, there are various site that’s offering service to track your adsense click, or if you really care about privacy or dont want to share your adsense click info, you can also use open source adsense tracking program called Adlogger

But is it necessary for you to use those services or using various adsense tracker script out there ? if it’s for .. the short answer would be .. no, it’s not necessary to use click tracking software or services for adsense. But why ?

If you’re installing the adlogger to track your adsense clicks :

It’s not accurate even if you use Google Analytics to track your adsense click with the help of a javascript. It’s not going to report the actual stats, and only Google know about your detailed adsense statistic even for the click fraud activity if there’s any

Why it’s not accurate ?

There are various forum topic about this, and here’s what they said about adlogger :

From Webmaster World – 16 February 2007 :

Adlogger is kinda useless. First in firefox if you go over the ads it count 1 click. Also its no very compitable with ie7 and hundreds of other bugs
In firefox a “hover” counts a click

From DigitalPoint Forums – 11 March 2007 :

Adloger is worthless…i wouldnt bother with it. It doesn’t track clicks it tracks mouse position over your adsense code

And the conclusion is adlogger also counts mouse hover a click. But don’t get me wrong, adlogger can be useful for you especially if you want to block specific ads from appearing on your site by adding the url that’s displayed on your adlogger statistic into your Google Adsense account under Competitive Filter List. And this could be useful to block those MFA (Made for Adsense) site

The alternative way to automatically generate various MFA site for you to use by one click is by using AdsBlackList

What about various 3rd party site that’s offering to track your adsense clicks ?

Although i’ve never used 3rd party click tracking service for my adsense ads, personally i do not recommend you to use them. Because if you use it, they can also track which keyword is best on your site. And in the end you just help them to make more money. So in this case i’d suggest you to use adlogger instead. But this is just from my own opinion

Is there any good adsense click tracker script out there ?

I do not know much about this, but from my point of view there’s no need to really track your adsense ads. Just leave it to Google (trust them in this case), beside there’s nothing you can do if you’re clicking on your adsense ads and got banned from Google Adsense or violating adsense guidelines .. and you might also interested on reading this topic from Webmaster World about click fraud

Other than that you also might be interested on reading this topic from Google adsense Help Center

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Google Adsense, Income Sources, Making Money, Opinion

Korean Website sues Google because of Click Fraud

Reaper-X — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:52:04 +0000

It seems the click fraud activity still exists but the question is .. who’s telling the truth ? is it Google or the suspected website (The Local Humor Website) ?

Google, the U.S. web search giant, faces a W30 million (US$1=W945) lawsuit in Korea. Humor University, a local humor website, announced on Sunday that it filed a suit against Google demanding W20 million in payments and W10 million in damages. Humor University said the American firm allegedly failed to pay for three months of online ads

Humor University said that it signed an agreement to host Google’s Adsense ads and ran them for three months in late 2005, but Google refused to pay, citing click fraud. Humor University said Google never provided evidence to back up those claims – Full Story

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Google Adsense, Internet, Tech News

Okay, that’s it .. im leaving Adsense

Reaper-X — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:12:55 +0000

Sorry if the title misleading, but i had enough of seeing various forums talk about how they say that adsense is not working for them or they can only make small amount of money from using adsense and decided to switch into other advertising network or method

And not that because i love adsense to death, but simply those who think adsense sucks, does not really know what they’re talking about. And so that’s why i decided to write this (other than that, you might be interested on reading my previous post about what i have learned from adsense)

Why did i say that ? first of all .. if someone say adsense is not working as it should on their website should at least know how to count unique visitors for their site, if their site can only bring 100 – 300 unique visitors per day .. then you should try to improve your website traffic instead of complaining about adsense

What if they say, they get lots of clicks but those clicks only worth $0.xx or almost next to nothing ? .. wow that’s good if you can get high CTR on your site there are possibility :

You’re using bad niche on your website
Because the adsense bot couldnt find useful keywords on your page, they decided to display Public service ads (PSA) that does not give you money even if there’s someone clicking on it

And now what if your site is getting huge amount of visitors daily but making low click through rate ? .. if this the case, then maybe you should play around with your adsense placement

So what’s the conclusion from this post ? simple, if you really want to make sure adsense is best for your site. Keep on increasing your site visitors to more than 1000 unique per day and see how adsense is performing on your site. And if you get low CTR try playing around with the adsense placement and see the results after one month. If its still not working as it should, then you can switch into other advertising network

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Google Adsense, Income Sources, Making Money, Opinion

Placing Adsense on unsupported language

Reaper-X — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:13:33 +0000

Lately i’ve seen many website which is using adsense code on their site. Well .. if their website is using supported language in adsense, i think there’s no problem of course .. but if they’re using adsense on unsupported language ? well .. the Google TOS said that you should not use adsense on unsupported language because it’s the same as violating Google Adsense TOS and might caused you to be banned from Adsense (beside you’re not going to make money from it because the adsense will only display PSA ads)

And that’s why i ask the adsense team about this, because i’m planning on creating another site, and that site is not going to use supported language listed on adsense page

And here’s the reply from the adsense team :

Thanks for your email. At this time, we do not offer ad targeting for Indonesian; ad targeting and support is currently available for the languages listed here: https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=9727. If you place the ad code on pages with content primarily in an unsupportedlanguage, we may show public service ads or ads in another language.

Until we are able to offer this service targeted to your specific language, please remove the AdSense ad code from your site. We appreciate your patience as we expand our program.

If you have have concerns about sites which do not comply with our policies, you can email our specialists directly at adsense-abuse@google.com to help us investigate more efficiently.

From the above message it seems that Google adsense team did not read my email message carefully :P .. anyway … because google forbid placing adsense code on unsupported language .. i guess i’ll wait before creating new website using my local language :)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Google Adsense, Income Sources, Journal, Making Money

Adsense Display Issue or My adsense check has been stolen ?

Reaper-X — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:48:54 +0000

Yesterday i just emailed the adsense team regarding my adsense payment for January, because on the payment history page i saw Google already send my adsense payment since 25 January 2007 and the check has been cleared on 27 February 2007 (the last time i checked my payment history page is on 26 February and i did not see my adsense check status has been cleared at that time). But the problem is until today (28 February) when i posted this i haven’t received the adsense check for January

And that’s why i ask the Google team whether my adsense check has been cashed by someone else or there is display error in their system. And .. today i already received a reply from them and here’s what it’s looks like :

Thank you very much for bringing this issue to our attention. Please know that this is a display issue which our engineering team is aware of and is currently investigating – I’ll be sure to send you another email as soon as I have any more information regarding your January payment.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for any confusion caused.

If it’s true there’s a system error on the Google Adsense website .. of course i’m very happy to hear it (but don’t get me wrong). Im happy to hear it because if Google said there’s a system error / display error somewhere that means my adsense check is still safe and has not been stolen and cashed by unknown person

As a note, i thought my adsense check has been stolen at first because i saw various post / article on the internet saying that their adsense check has been cashed by an unknown person. And most of them are come from a third world country like me

Well .. i just hope that my adsense check for january is still safe, and can be delivered to me although for most people it’s not much but .. if its for me .. well .. it means a lot :(

Update : I just received my adsense check today at 11:XX AM (thanks god) .. and that means, there’s an error at Google adsense system somewhere :D

0x87485B96 | Tags : Google, Google Adsense, Internet, Journal, Personal

Google Adsense with Amazon Omakase & Chitika

Reaper-X — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:52:03 +0000

A few days ago i sent an email message to the Google Adsense team regarding the use of Chitika contextual ads and Amazon Omakase on the same page with Google Adsense (if you’ve read my previous adsense tips, you’ll know why i prefer to ask adsense team). And today i just received a reply from them (it’s took a little longer than usual to received this email message, but im fine with that because in their auto-generated message, it says that due to the long holiday weekend in the U.S., there may be a delay in responding to your email. Please be assured that we’ll respond just as soon as we can) ..

and here’s what they said about using adsense with other contextual advertisement :

Hi Aditya,

AdSense publishers may display ads from other contextual ad networks on the same page as Google ads only if the formatting or color scheme of these ads is sufficiently different from the layout of the Google ads. In other words, if you choose to place non-Google ads on the same site or page as Google ads, it should always be clear to the user that the ads are served by different advertising networks and that the non-Google ads have no association with Google. If the formats are naturally similar, we’d ask that you use different color schemes for the competing ads.

Of course, we’re constantly investing in our advertising technology, and we believe that Google ads will monetize best for most publishers. Be aware that the addition of third party ads to your site may cause fewer users to click the Google ads on your site and thus your AdSense earnings may decrease. We’d also recommend that publishers be careful not to place excessive advertising on their sites, as doing so may result in fewer repeat visitors.

Sincerely,

Sean
The Google AdSense Team

As you can see on that email message, it says that it is possible to use Adsense with Amazon Omakase and various Chitika product, as long as the other contextual ads are using different color schemes if the competing ad service offer similar format like adsense

Other than that i also agree that plastering your site with various advertisement will reduce your site visitors, but in my opinion … my site is still better than many other site / blog which is using advertisement on their site .. ;)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Advertisement, Google, Google Adsense, Income Sources, Making Money