What's Adsense?

It's an Advertising program run by our friends at Google. Website owners can signup for FREE and start putting advertisements on their Websites and Blogs.

Revenue is generated when people visit your pages and click on the ads.

Can I make any Money?

Well, Google pays out over $100,000,000 in Adsense commissions every year. I'm not saying that you're going to make a ton of money with Adsense but I know a lot of people out there making an average of $10/day with Adsense ads. That adds up to $300/month.

How can I help you?

I've been working with Adsense for several years now and have over 50 sites generating income using Adsense. I've always wanted to sit down and share my knowledge and experiences with others and I've finally found the time to do it.

My Goal?

I hope to update this Website on a fairly regular basis with helpful incites into the World of Adsense.

Come back often! I hope this site will provide you with what you need to start making a little extra money with the Internet's BEST Affiliate program!

ADSENSE NEWSFLASH!

September 7 / 2007

The Adsense team has responded to some Adsense publishers concerns of having their Adsense code hijacked and placed on websites with inappropriate content. The Adsense team has announced a new feature called the "Allowed Sites List" under the Adsense Setup tab. This list will allow you to specify the URL's of websites that are allowed to display your Adsense ads.

June 26 / 2007

The Adsense team has just announced a new way of customizing your Adsense ads. You can now add rounded corners to your ads by going into the Adsense Setup tab.

June 22 / 2007

The Adsense team has just released an updated Adsense Optimization demo. You can check it out here: Adsense Optimization Demo.

June 5 / 2007

The Adsense team has announced a couple of policy changes:

1. Adsense publishers are asked to comply with the 'spirit of page quality guideline' which translates into 'don't break any Adsense formatting rules!'.

2. You can have up to 3 Adsense Link units on each page now.

May 25 / 2007

The Adsense team has just announced the availability of 3 new video formats: the 728x90 Leaderboard, the 120x600 Skyscraper, and the 160x600 Wide Skyscraper.

May 23 / 2007

The Adsense team has announced that they will be piloting Adsense streaming video ads with a small group of publishers.

Apr. 4 / 2007

The Adsense Team has just announced that Adsense ads have a fresh new look. After doing extensive research the Adsense team has come up with a new cleaner appealing look to Adsense ads. The change will happen automatically on your site. Your current color scheme will not be affected.

Apr. 3 / 2007

The Adsense Team has announced the introduction of monthly Optimization reports which will appear under "Recent Messages" on the main Adsense page when you login. The Adsense system will automatically analyze you web pages every month and offer helpful suggestions to improve revenue.

Apr. 2 / 2007

The Adsense Team has just announced a referral program for Google Apps. You'll earn $5 each time a visitor to your site clicks on the Google Apps referral button and signs up for Google apps.

Mar. 20 / 2007

The Adsense Team is now accepting applications for the new Adsense referral beta. The nice thing about the referrals beta is that you can select products and services from a database of all Adwords advertiser. This way you control what ads appear on your website instead of relying on the Adsense "contextual" engine deciding for you. If you're interested in signing up just go to the Adsense referrals beta site.

Mar. 13 / 2007

The Adsense Team has announced the availability of the Adsense "Calendar". It includes updates from the Adsense blogposts, upcoming maintenance periods and Adsense Publisher events. The best way to take advantage of the Adsense Calendar is to subscribe to it thru your Google Calendar. That way all important Adsense events will appear alongside your own stuff.

Feb. 20 / 2007

The Adsense Team announced today the release of the Google AJAX Search API which will allow you to add custom newsfeeds, video and search results to your webpages without writing any code. You can check out the new features at the Google AJAX Search API homepage.

Feb. 13 / 2007

Starting today, Adsense ads will start displaying the Google "Checkout" cart for advertiser websites that support Googles secure checkout feature. New Adsense badges will also appear in Google search results.

Feb. 2 / 2007

The Adsense team has just announced a change in the bonus structure for Adsense and Adwords referrals.

If your Adsense referral earns $5 in the first six months after joining then you make $5. If they make $100 then you get $250 bonus! Wow! Start putting those Adsense referral buttons on your site!

They've announced a similar structure for Adwords referrals. If your referral spends $5 on advertising in the first 6 months then you make $5. If they spend $100 then you make an additional $40.

Jan. 25 / 2007

The Adsense team has just announced an enhancement to Adsense Custom Channels. They've added the ability to provide details like ad location, description and visibility. Advertisers that match the content of your pages will be able to bid on your ads based on this information. With this in mind, it's important that you provide details like Ad Size and Page content in the new Description field. To access these new fields select the Channels tab from Adsense Setup. Click Edit Settings on the right side of channel you want to modify. Click the Targeting checkbox and you will be able to add the additional Ad Placement information.

Jan. 24 / 2007

Here's an interesting video published by the Inside Adsense Team featuring Laura Chen answering some frequently asked questions about Adsense policies:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2122852259665590583

Jan. 22 / 2007

The Adsense team is currently testing Adsense video ads with a small group of "test" publishers. Participating publishers range from small to large websites with a broad range of video content.

Jan. 17 / 2007

The Adsense team has released a new version of the Adsense program policies. This new version is intended to be more "readable". A lot of the wording has changed.

You can find a copy of the New Adsense policy here:

New Google Adsense Program Policies

Jan. 8 / 2007

Google has announced they will be consolidating Picasa into the standard Google Pack for Adsense.

How does this affect Adsense publishers?

It's all good! the new Google Pack for Adsense bundles in the install for Picasa. So, if someone downloads the Google Pack just to install the Picasa component, you will still get the referral fee for the Google pack. This means your doubling your earnings!

Here's what the new Google Pack for Adsense referral units look like: