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AdSense Confidentiality

Google’s Terms and Conditions says this about Confidentiality: However, You may accurately disclose the amount of Google’s gross payments to You pursuant to the Program.

AdSense Journal

It’s about time that I posted in my AdSense journal. One thing I’ve noticed is that my posts tend to be a bit long and boring. I’ll make this one brief and to the point. Yesterday I added AdSense to GoogleHello.com. I don’t expect it to really go anywhere. But it does look nice. I’m…Continue Reading…

Many things

..have happened in the past few days. I shuffled around some sites, created a donate page for the solar car project, and snapped up gsearchblog.com. Dunno, I just like doing stuff like that. I’ve also tried some new AdSense placements, specifically, on Invision Plus. The problem with a forum community is that they retaliate against…Continue Reading…

Lots of clicks with low earnings

On one of the GC ad channels, in the past 7 days, I have over 5,000 clicks reported but less than $4 earned. It works out to about $0.0006 per click! I think the earnings are correct, but the clicks count is way too high. On the other end of the scale, the footer ad…Continue Reading…

Added leaderboard to top of topic views

These new ads at GC will apply only to Guests. Not only will it help to monetize traffic from them, it may also push them to register since registered (and logged in) users don’t get the ads. One concern I have is whether Google will continue to show the ads with higher bid prices in…Continue Reading…

First entry in the AS Journal

Here’s a little something I’ll start doing with my blog. As recommended by an eBook I just purchased, I’ll start keeping an AS journal. Before buying the book, I was already blending text ads into my sites. But it’s been a further motivator and validated some thoughts I’d had. One of these is the supremacy…Continue Reading…