http://www.adsensenow.com AdSense Now is an Information and News Blog about Google AdSense with tips, tricks, helpful resources, and explanations. Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:32:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last post, we had discussed the options you have if, for example, AdSense bans your account. But what if there's a very small but existent chance that AdSense reinstates your account? What if there's actually a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, light at the end of ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2008/02/17/how-to-reinstate-your-adsense-account/ Don't get me wrong, AdSense is still a fantastic way to earn through your web sites and blogs. Done correctly, you could earn thousands. Done perfectly, you could earn tens or even hundreds of thousands. However, with the sheer number of complaints about AdSense banning people, I wouldn't wonder if ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2008/02/09/life-after-adsense/ Google AdSense seems to have heard the outrage accompanied by their removal of referrals for Google AdSense for publishers outside North America, Japan, and Latin America. This late January, AdSense has issued a statement of their new referral rules for publishers outside the said territories. According to the AdSense blog, ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2008/01/31/adsense-news-referrals-yet-again-and-early-pin-mailer-sends/ If you’re outside of North America, Latin America, and Japan, AdSense referrals will be retired.For publishers not located in any of the three regions detailed above, we’ll soon be retiring referrals promoting AdSense. We’ve found that this referral product has not performed as well as we had hoped in these ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2008/01/12/adsense-referral-changes-adsense-to-foreign-publishers-talk-to-the-hand/ Google sure is working hard lately what with the new updates coming about like there's no tomorrow. So far, aside from reducing the clickable zone areas, everything's been good. These two new updates also are and I quite like them. The first would be the Google Gadget Ads. It's basically ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2007/12/26/new-adsense-ads-gadget-ads-and-pixel-ads/ Whenever someone asks me if AdSense is a viable monetization option, I would always say, "It depends." It could earn one a lot, depending on the niche. There are some niches with which AdSense is really not a viable option since they always seem to get smart-priced because they're targeted ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2007/12/19/is-adsense-a-viable-monetization-model-for-blogs/ Aside from the AdSense scrolling ads feature which seems to be in its beta phase, AdSense is also testing out another new addition to its range of features. As a publisher, wouldn't you prefer it if you have (almost) full control of what ads appear on your web sites? There ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2007/12/16/adsense-news-ad-review-center/ A few days ago, I was staring at one of my blogs and noticed something different about my Google Adsense units. There are inexplicable up and down arrows on my skyscraper, which I had clicked, mind you, brushing off the chance that it might also be against Google Adsense TOS ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2007/12/14/new-scrolling-ads-in-google-adsense/ It seems that Google is trying to renovate the overall look and workings of their Adsense ad units. It wasn't too long since the time they reduced the clickable zones of the Adsense units. When I logged in to my account just recently, I also found out that the data ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2007/12/09/%e2%80%98advertise-on-this-site%e2%80%99-links-in-google-adsense-units-about-to-be-phased-out/ I recently blogged about Adsense reducing clickable zones to protect the interests of their advertisers. In turn, I and 99% of other publishers, experienced a decrease in click-through rates by the beginning of November. Google is hoping that with the decrease in click-through rates and increase in conversion, advertisers would ... http://www.adsensenow.com/2007/12/07/discrimination-large-sites-have-bigger-clickable-zones/