Tuesday, 18th November 2008
In Google’s Optimisation Essentials (Part I), Google’s top 3 AdSense Ad Units are:
My personal favourite is the 300×250 medium rectangle. There has been some controversy over placing the medium rectangle below the blog titles. I have been doing it for years and nothing happened.
Here’s Google’s official take on this medium rectangle placement issue:
I don’t think my ads look like the 2 examples above and I have never received any complaints from Google.
Someone from the Warrior forum reported that his PLR article-based sites was taken off by Google. Some bloggers have added an “advertisement” image or text above the medium rectangle as a fix for this.
I shall ask Google directly on what …
Tagged As: Google AdSense
Monday, 20th August 2007
I did not plan on adding on to my previous Google AdSense competitive filter post but I encountered some weird bugs that everyone should know of, including Mr Google.
How To Accidentally Destroy Your Competitive Ad Filter List
You may run the risk of wiping out your entire competitive ad filter list when you REFRESH your browser in the event you see a screen like this:
In the mini screen shot above, I encountered a blank page while I was adding new links to the competitive list. I thought Google was having some problems with their server so I clicked on the refresh button to reload the page. BIG MISTAKE! Do not refresh your browser when you see the screen above. Click on the back button instead! I have alerted Google about this bug but I doubt they can recover my list.
How To Create a Competitive Ad Filter List the Right Way
Google recommends using the c from an Internet Explorer browser. Once you have installed it, you will see a new menu item titled “Google AdSense Preview Tool” when you right click on an empty space on any web site.
This is a sample of the AdSense …
Tagged As: Competitive-Ad-Filter, EditPlus, Google AdSense, Google-Webmaster-Tools
Friday, 17th August 2007
If the Google AdSense sites that appear on your web sites are very well targeted for the content of your site, you won’t need to use the competitive ad filter. However, if you have web sites that do not get the right bunch of ads, you should use the competitive ad filter to block those untargeted ads from your web site to increase the chances of getting a more targeted ad.
The big problem with Google AdSense is they consider ads you wish to block as “competition”. Personally, I do not think of them as competition but annoyances. Once you enter a domain name into the competitive filter list, it will get blocked throughout your account. All of your web sites will not be able to display these ads.
As you can see from my competitive ad filter list, I have disabled some useless “Oasis spa” ads and other holiday related ads. If I create a web site about holiday topics, I will not be able to have these ads on my holiday sites even though they are targeted to my site’s content. Heaven knows why Google can’t create a “site specific ad filter” instead of the current filter …
Tagged As: Competitive-Ad-Filter, CTR, Google AdSense
Tuesday, 17th October 2006
According to Google AdSense’s Blog Opimization tips, this is how you should layout your blog for best results with Google AdSense…
I followed the second example and moved the link unit up to the top of the page above all the blog entries and just below my menu. I tried the link unit on the just like the first example and it did not work very well for me so i removed them. Through my Google AdSense AdLogger logs. I highly recommend AdLogger for your Google AdSense tracking needs. It is free and open source. I bet some of the paid Google AdSense trackers are modified versions of AdLogger.
I might try the 120 x 600 pixel skyscraper ad on the right hand side of this blog. Google allows a maximum of 3 ads on your web sites. I do have 1 more ad to place on my site if I choose to. Some people recommend putting 3 Google AdSense ads on your web site while others do not. Whatever you have read about optmizing your sites for Google AdSense still requires testing to verify if it works positively or negatively on your web site.
Tagged As: google+adsense, google+adsense+optimization, google+adsense+tracker
Friday, 11th August 2006
I have been using Site5.com for over 1 year. I used to have nothing but good things to say about them but in the past 3-4 days my opinion of their service changed dramatically. I have removed the Site5 link in my footer because I no longer endorse them.
They quietly shutdown my web sites without telling me in advance because they were taking up too much resources. I am using a mid-range plan at their web site that allows me to host an unlimited number of domains. I use Site Uptime to check if Site5’s servers down and they were not down in the past 3-4 days. In fact their servers rarely go down. Therefore I don’t think I can claim anything for the “downtime guarantee” even though my web sites appear “blank” in my browser.
If I did not check my web sites manually by entering the URL into my browser, I would have missed this problem and they would continue to treat me as a fool. Their support took over 12 hours to reply to my query and they told me my scripts are using too many “httpd” request and they want me to fix it. I told …
Tagged As: madrooster, servint, site5, vps, web+host, web+hosting
Wednesday, 5th July 2006
It’s not very often I get very excited about a new software for internet marketers. Domain Dashboard is wonderful surprise for me and many others who purchased it. Why? Because it saves us a lot of time and effort manually adding our web domains to our web hosts.
If you have a couple of domains then Domain Dashboard is not for you. If you have 50 to hundreds of them, you will be wasting your precious time adding them one by one to your web host. You need Domain Dashboard to get your life back!
My Old Way of Adding Domains to My Web Host
The time it takes to add 1 domain according to the steps above will take me a minimum of 5 minutes. If I add 100 domains this way, I would need to spend 500 minutes or 8.33 hours. That is equivalent to …
Tagged As: control-panel, cpanel, domain, domain+dashboard, google+adsense, internet+marketing, search+engine+optimization, seo, web+domain, whm
Monday, 29th May 2006
If you missed my previous post on my Major Blog Renovation, please take a look at the “before photos” to see how my blog used to before today. After watching Michael Cheney’s AdSense Videos (AdSense Videos review coming soon), I realised I wasn’t maximizing my blog’s Google AdSense earning potential. Therefore I made the following changes to my Google AdSense ads:
1. I dumped the leaderboard ad at the top of the blog
I wonder why I put this up there in the first place. I guess it was convenient to do so at that time. The clickthrough rates for this type of ad sucks pretty bad because it looks too much like an ad.
What I have right now is the 336 x 280 large rectangle ad you see on the top left of every screen below the post titles. I embedded the ad seamlessly into the content without using any HTML tables. You can resize your browser window and the text around will “wrap” perfectly around the ad. I suggest you view the source code of this page to see how it is done with a simple “div” tag around your Google AdSense code. It’s much easier than using …
Tagged As: Blogging, google+adsense, internet+marketing, make+money, vincent+rich
Sunday, 28th May 2006
I have decided to give my Google AdSense ads a little reshuffle. This will probably be the last post with the “old” Google AdSense ad layout. I’m going to make some changes and you will be able to spot the difference with my “before photos” below.
Moreover, I need to keep my blog up to date with the latest blogging technologies. I’m going to add stuff like FeedBurner RSS feeds to replace the existing blog feeds I generate with my WordPress blogs, social boomarking to let people bookmark pages of my blogs, and tagging on sites like Technorati.com.
I will cover these topics in greater detail when the my new blog layout is up and explain the reasons for doing so. I am very excited about this new blog update because it could potentially drive a lot more traffic to my blog.
Tagged As: Blogging, google+adsense, internet+marketing, make+money, vincent+rich
Saturday, 1st April 2006
I have been using Keyword Elite for over a week now and it has been a bittersweet story. I am very impressed with Brad Callen’s customer support and his commitment to making this software the best keyword research tool in the world. Keyword Elite has been updated several times since I purchased it so reviewing it has been difficult because of the bug fixes and new features added in.
I purchased version 34 and now Brad Callen has updated it to version 63. Keyword Elite has been useful for me in the following ways:
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Tuesday, 14th February 2006
I’ve been using RegisterFly for quite some time now. I like their cheap $6.99 – $7.99 .com and $1.79 – $1.99 .info domain prices with free privacy protection of my personal information.
But lately I have been experiencing some problems with their registration system. It seems like whenever a domain registration is unsuccessful, my credit card still gets charged. In fact, this month I had 5 error charges to my credit card for domain name purchases that screwed up.
It takes a lot of time to report this to the support staff to get this rectified. Sometimes their web site takes a long time to load and in some cases in doesn’t load at all. RegisterFly is now an ICANN accredited registrar and it is registering domains on its own credentials. I think that is why their system is pretty screwed up now. 5 error charges in February 2006 is something new.
I usually purchase .info domains to create landing pages / redirection pages for promoting affiliate programs with Google AdWords. I also have a bunch of .info domains for the building of Google AdSense web sites. The best thing about RegisterFly is that once I purchase my domain name, …
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