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AdSense Journal: US Targeting

I’m now geotargeting YPN ads for US users on Invision Plus forums (example: Support Forum). It looks reasonably good! US visitors will see 50/50 AdSense and Yahoo, while those outside the US will only get AdSense. I’ll test this for 7 days, then add images.

Hundred-dollar days

I’ve actually had a few hundred-dollar days with AdSense. The first that I see was Tuesday, May 3, 2005, when I earned $108.34. Of course, my average is a little below that :)

Large Rectangle & Collapsing Ad Units

I made two changes to my AdSense setup here today. First, I added a large rectangle to the footer. This should give you some links of interest when viewing any page of the blog. I also put this unit in its own custom channel, so I can see its effects separately. Second, I made all…Continue Reading…

Smallest AdSense Ad Unit

I’m doing a little experment with AdSense. Instead of running a large rectange at the top of the post, which I’ve been doing for the last couple of days, I’ve decided to switch it up a bit. I’m using AdSense’s smallest ad unit for the first time. Another thing I’m going to start doing is…Continue Reading…

Inexplicable AdSense Impressions

It has been a long time since I’ve written in my AdSense journal. In fact, the last time I wrote was on December 26, when I turned off Themed Ad Units. Now that it has been about 2 weeks and 2 days since then, let’s take a look at the results. Since the Themed Ad…Continue Reading…

Themed Ad Units Off

I turned off Themed Ad Units because I didn’t like the way they looked. They were shown on pages randomly. When I had multiple ad units, they would theme one of the units and not the other. On some loads, neither were themed. The problem was that the themed ad units had specific colors, including…Continue Reading…