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I was excited to get access to the new Video Units in Google AdSense today, and went about the setup process. Example of the Google AdSense Video UnitAfter going into the Video Unit area and agreeing to the terms, I had to link up my AdSense account to my Google account.
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Google AdSense lies at the heart of Google’s advertising empire. AdSense ads are the funny little text boxes that are scattered across the internet, displaying links related to the content on a web page. For many sites, AdSense has become the sole source of income, with some small one man band publishing outfits claiming to make in excess of $100,000 through showing the adverts. AdSense also amounts to some 43 per cent of Google’s total revenue.

However, my own experience of the program has been less than favourable. (more…)

It’s easy to point our publisher/affiliate fingers at Google, or any PPC network for that matter and feel slighted when things don’t work out like we’ve planned. You invested all that time and energy - and for what? Bupkus. I’ve received more than my share of emails the past few months from AdSense publishers and seen more than a few posts in industry forums from those feeling more than a little disgruntled about the relationship with their now ex-sugar daddy - the Web’s biggest media network in Google. Some are even considering filing class action lawsuits. Listen, you got dumped (and probably for a very good reason) so deal with it. Google’s just not that into you, er, your traffic.
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A few days ago I wrote a post describing how I was fooled into breaking the terms of my Google AdSense account, which resulted in Google terminating my account without any warning of any kind. While that was the right thing of them to do, the idea of being blacklisted without getting a chance to explain myself made me upset - and I asked myself if Google had grown too big to listen to a the explaination of a single user. Now I know the answer. (more…)

A few days ago I tried putting Google AdSense ads on my site again, and I quickly realized that it would be an easy way to cover the hosting costs in the future and still get a good amount money over every month. The same day, a few hours after I added the ads, a website visitor e-mailed me through my contact form and told me that many of the AdSense links led to completely unrelated sites which contained nothing but new AdSense links. A few examples were listed, and it looked really bad. The e-mail suggested that I would review the ad links and then use the competitive filter to remove them, because they are not only fooling Google of money - they are crap in every other way as well. I thought that it was a good idea, so I followed the instructions in the e-mail without realizing that it would cause trouble… (more…)