Category Archives: Adsense tips

information for people wanting to make money from contextual advertising programs such as Adsense

Michael Campbell’s Ultimate Heatmap

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Neil_Shearing

If you’ve ever used Adsense to generate click-revenue, you’ll probably be aware of Google’s heatmap image which I’ve reproduced on the right… The idea of the heatmap is to indicate at a glance which areas of a webpage get the … Continue reading →

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Making Money From Adsense On Domain Holding Pages?

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

In what could be a boon for many people sitting on undeveloped domains (ones that just have placeholder pages, also known as parked pages or parked domains), Google has announced that you can place Adsense on such pages. “Many publishers … Continue reading →

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Phantom Adsense Cash… Is It A Good Thing?

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

I was checking my Adsense stats recently and noticed that the “total earnings” didn’t equal the sum of the separate domains I have listed. Hmmm, free extra Adsense income… can’t be bad, right? Well, hold on a minute. The Web … Continue reading →

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Kontera Ads Test Results

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Neil_Shearing

OK, so my test of Kontera Ads showed rather quickly that their earnings were poor in comparison to Google Adsense but I stuck with it because I wanted to run a long test to be statistically sure that my results … Continue reading →

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Adsense changes… only clicks on titles and url’s will work.

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Neil_Shearing

Adsense have just changed their system… “we’ve just changed our text ads slightly to help reduce accidental clicks. In the past, users could click on both the background and full text of an ad, but now they can click only … Continue reading →

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Do Kontera Ads Make You Money?

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Neil_Shearing

I’m testing Kontera ads over at my RefreshArticles.com site. See this example page on Internet advertising. The words highlighted within the article are Kontera ads, which will earn me cash if clicked on (not when someone puts their mouse over … Continue reading →

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Top-Ten Ranking At Google With PLR Articles…

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Neil_Shearing

Someone challenged me about my Google rankings… check it out… “I’ve checked the backlinks of refresharticles.com/articles. In terms of links, the site only has 5 backlinks. When you said the majority of your traffic comes from Google, can you give … Continue reading →

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Stolen Adsense Code used to give Adsense Advertisers a bad name?

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Neil_Shearing

Can someone steal your specific Adsense code, paste it into a junk website and give your Adsense account a bad reputation… or worse, get it banned? It seems like it’s a possibility because why else would Google set up a … Continue reading →

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Adding Adsense ads in Blogger.com Blogs…

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Neil_Shearing

According to “Inside Adsense“, adding Adsense ads to Blogger.com blogs is now quick and easy. They say… — We’ve heard your feedback about wanting to insert Google ads between your blog posts, and we’re happy to let you know that … Continue reading →

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Adsense upgraded my account to Referrals 2.0

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Neil_Shearing

They said… “NEW Congratulations, your account has been upgraded to include the all new Referrals 2.0 – click here to get started” So, I did. And it said… “Google Referrals allow you to choose specific products or groups of products … Continue reading →

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