Google To Retire Their Adsense Referral Program
Google is going to retire their Google Adsense referral program during the last week of August. During that time, referral ads that featured Google products or offerings from Adwords advertisers will no longer display any ads.
Although the referral programs is not that lucrative as compared to other monetization programs, at the very least it is an additional source of revenue for some webmasters. While I did not actively promote this program, a quick check around find some webmasters making decent money off it.
Adsense Arbitrage – Online Money Making Models
March 17, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Make Money Online
Adsense is an advertising program run by Google for publishers. Publishers who choose to enroll in this program will get to display text, image and more recently video ads on their websites in return for a share of the advertising revenue. Earnings are calculated based on per click. Every visitor to your site who clicks on any of these ads will earn you a percentage of the revenue from that particular ad.
For Google Adwords, it’s a Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising program for advertisers who want to promote their products, services and websites. Advertisers bid for the keywords that should show their ads and indicate the cost they are willing to pay per click. For example let’s say an advertiser pays Google $1 for an ad, whenever someone clicks on the ad, the advertiser will have to pay Google $1 for that click. The $1 will then be share between Google and the publisher’s whose site displays the clicked ad.
So how does Adsense arbitrage comes in?
Monetize Your Site With Adsense
February 5, 2008 by Albert
Filed under Monetization
One of the best ways to monetize your site is through Google Adsense. Many webmasters are earning decent money by displaying Asense Ads on their websites. Not everyone will be able to generate huge amount of revenue from a single website but there are many webmasters who have many websites in their portfolio earning a few dollars a day. Now imagine if you have 100 web sites each earning $5 for you a day in Adsense earnings and you will be looking at an eye popoing amount of $500 a day alone. Multiply that by 30 days and you will be earning an incredible amount of money that you ever dream of.
Google Adsense is a quick and easy way for webmasters to monetize their web sites. By putting up relevant and text based Adsense ads on their websites, many webmasters start to make money as soon as they start driving traffic to their web sites. As the Adsense ads are normally related to what your visitors are looking for on your web site, you can both monetize and enhance your content pages using Adsense ads. As you know, you can only make money if visitors to your site click on the Adsense ads display on your site. If your site displays Adsense ads with high paying keywords, your Adsense earnings will be much higher compare to low paying keywords.
Adsense Ads Units Are Less Clickable Now
About a week back, Google announces change to their Adsense Ads units. If you noticed in the past, the clickable area for Adsense ads units encompassed the whole background of the individual ads. Now, clicks will only worked if you click on the title and URL of each ad.
Well, it seems that this move by Google once again annoyed many Adsense publishers who see a immediate decrease in their Adsense earnings.
In their own words:
“We’re rolling out a change to our text ad formats to help reduce accidental clicks and increase value for advertisers…..This new format will match the changes we’ve implemented on Google.com to help decrease the number of accidental clicks and increase the number of ad conversions. A reduction in accidental clicks will keep users on your pages, interacting with your content until they choose to click on an ad. This change will enhance the user’s overall experience with your websites and improve advertiser campaign value, but it’s likely that your click-through rate will decrease.”
Some Thing To Take Note For Adsense Publisher
For webmasters who are monetizing their sites using Google Adsense, please take note of this:
Recently, on one of my sites I have PSA (Public Service Ads) appearing out of the sudden for no apparent reason. I check my google account for that particular site and found this was happening because I did not update my contact information.
After browsing through multiple forums and blogs, I found out that this issue is happening because I have not confirm my contact details by inputing the PIN that Google had sent to me.
I was puzzled because I have received pins before for my other accounts but this time round the problem seem to stem from the missing PIN which was supposed to be mailed out to me months back??? 
