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Waste of Money on Google Adwords?

jez — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:22:00 +0000

Today I stumbled over one funny advertisment that showed up on one of my websites:

Christ Loves you. – Sorry what?
I went to the page manually (so that I wont breach Google’s TOS) and was surprised… to see a page that was blatantly layed out to capture personal information such as e-mail addresses and postal address.

Hey Church people, got some Google Adwords money to waste?

Quick adsense advice – remove duplicates from filter list

jez — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:53:08 +0000

Adsense Users, be aware of the fact that when using your filter list and adding domains to it, you need to remove all leading slashes, else you might receive duplicates that take up space from your filter list.

The Google adsense filter list can only hold up to 200 values.
I just went through my list and found 12 duplicates.

An example:



http://downloadrings.com/

http://downloadrings.com

Same domain, but added twice to the list. Google might consider adding an auto-filter to take care of those dupes, but then again… they care crap at all about Adsense (as far as publishers like you and me are concerned).

Yeah right… earn money, but how much?

Last month I had some 350,000 ad impressions and earned merely 194$. Of course this is still a lot of money, but for so many impressions one could expect a bit higher payment, right?

My mate over at christinazone.com makes 10x what I do with less impressions and clicks. Seems like my audience here is quite click-adverse and smart :)

Are my ads targeted? Some are, but others are not…

If you wish to help me out with some filtering, just drop the offense ad URLS in a comment or plain contact form (link below; bottom left). It is highly appreciated. I am always trying to filter out those stupid .info domains with their non-sense ads, but since those are ads geo-targeted I miss half of them I assume. Oh and in case you want to earn some extra bucks with your website, click the Google Adsense image above. Google will explain to you what is necessary in order to get your started.

Google Adsense changed

jez — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:03:21 +0000

Edit: Google sent me a mail today, saying I was yelling at my visitors to do stuff with ads. How bollox is that? Must be one of their heuristic filters gone mad. Anyway, I changed potions of the site, hope this helps!

Google Adsense is taking the piss at the moment, that is why I changed the layout once more. See the images attached below.
Update: I changed the 468×60 banner to 336×280 in order to not break the layout for visitors surfing at lower screenresolutions (below 1024+). I use 1280×1024 if you wonder about the screenshots.

Before (three column layout)

After (two column layout)

Current layout (two column)

Internet Explorer renders it like this:

Update: The new ads are performing very good. In contrast to the mere $3,02 I made yesterday (no kidding), I already earned $7,64 today. Yay for some server money!

My website is hosted on a virtual private server by zone.net and costs $65 a month. If you want to help me fund it please donate some money. Thank you a lot!

Google Adsense – taking the piss?

jez — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:46:24 +0000

What is wrong with Google Adsense?
Today so far I got 3800 impressions and a mere $2,01 earned. What the hell? I’d leave it out all together then and still make more money by looking at jumping monkeys.

Update:

6700 impressions, $3,02 earned. This is silly. I will be modifying my theme tomorrow. I got hosting bills to pay and this is not paying out as well.

Adsense: Filter out low-paying ads that annoy your visitors

jez — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:49:59 +0000

Sometimes it is necessary to filter out the competition, not only to make more money off the ads, but also to serve high quality and targeted ads to your visitors. It is them, after all, who click on the ads.

If you haven’t filter out some junk advertisers, I advice you to do so. My earnings went up 300% ++ after spending half an hour crawling my site with google’s adsense preview tool.