Interest based ads.
Google can now keep a check on your browsing interactions when you visit any sites with Adsense.
You can as a visitor edit the preferences or opt out of this by visiting the Google ads preferences manager.
As an Adsense publisher you can opt out of interest based on your website.
In your Adsense account click the My Account tab, go to Account settings, click edit on the Interest based preferences and click “Do not show ads based on user interest categories”
According to Adsense Interest based ads will allow you to earn more.
My experiments with this have shown that whatever option I use makes no difference at all.
It’s worth a try…. some people have reported earning more by turning off interest based ads.
The new Google Caffeine search engine is supposedly now slowly being rolled out according to official statements.
This is much faster and more efficient search engine and presumably gives priority to “several word” search terms.
There has been a lot of hype that it will deindex all the copied content sites, particularly the Made for Adsense sites and autoblogs.
So far I have not seen much evidence of this and even the official Google webmasters forum has little to say on this subject at the moment.
Are we in for a big disappointment in that these spam sites will continue to be indexed.
Adsense has not been performing well for me just lately, especially the beginning of January but it is a trend I have seen before.
It is possible that the retailers advertise more over the Christmas period and then cut back in January possibly causing a lower payment per click.
I have experimented with different affiliates, gambling links, commission junction etc but have not had the results I get with Adsense.
It was a good time to try yet another affiliate company, Clickbank; they sell digital products that you download once you have paid for them. If you do a search for “Clickbank scams” or check it against the MacAfee Site advisor you will find a fair few people accusing them of being a Scam site.
I do not think this is true, in my opinion the big problem is the quality of the vendor web sites you are expected to promote. One example are companies that offer websites with hundreds of pages ready to promote Adsense. I have seen the result of people using such pages with copied content on the official Adsense forum, accounts have been disabled. A common factor with these sales pages is a pop up which says “are you sure you want to leave this site” when you try to leave. Of course I bloody well want to leave your mile long sales pitch and do not want such a rude reminder.
The adverts you can put on your site are very easy to customise, and you can decide what keywords to use but you stand the risk of promoting some very dubious digital products. Most successful publishers have chosen the companies they want to promote from the Clickbank marketplace and have written a sales page that links to just that one product.
Personally I will give this one a miss, to earn anything does take a lot of work and hard promoting. I prefer to concentrate on my website, adding original content which I enjoy doing and will stick with Adsense, a very simple solution to earning a few bob knowing that in most cases the clicks on these ads will lead to some respectable web pages
Below is an interesting statement found on one of the forums.
Not sure how to comment on this one, I apologise for copied content but as I have no Adsense on this blog I will not lose my Adsense account. Probably breaking webmaster guidlines. Comments welcome.
So this thread about Autoblogs brings up the question of Morals.
The existing Google search engine probably has the capability to deindex all sites with copied content so why doesn’t Google do this.
Google gets a good income from all these copied sites.
Google gets an even better income from the thousands of sites that never reach the $100 mark
Google even gets a good income from the sites that are disabled once they reach the$100 mark EVEN if they do return the funds to the advertiser because the revenue from Advertisers is equivalent to money sitting in a bank account earning interest.
A new search engine called Caffeine is starting up, no doubt faster, presenting relevant search answers and giving sites with good original content better search positions. Google is in a dilemma, they have to try and keep the Advertisers happy but do they do not want to lose the income from the sites mentioned.
Why not ban a few random accounts when they reach $100, the advertisers will see this as good business practice and yet Google still benefits.
Have none of you asked yourselves why so many copied sites get approved if they are against the TOS.
So they will let the advertisers know that the new search engine will show good original content for search words.
But will they deindex the copied websites, I very much doubt it.
