DeepMind Buy Another Google “Moonshot” Of Sorts
Re/code offers some additional insight into the $400+ million acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind that was reported last week. The people at DeepMind will apparently work with the search team at Google but not exclusively: Or a…
Google AdSense Direct – Google Takes 15% Of Your Direct Ad Sales
Initially, Google’s answer to help small publishers do direct ad sales while filling those ad spots with AdSense when the direct ads were not available, was the DoubleClick for Publishers (initially called Google Ad Manager). Truth is…
New Google AdSense Arrows: Square Backgrounds With Thin Arrow
A WebmasterWorld thread is chatting about a new Google AdSense test where the arrows in the AdSense units are once again changing.
I was able to find a picture of this in action on my own personal blog…
Google Removed 350 Million Ads & Rejected 3 Million Publishers
Google announced on Friday their efforts to keep their ad network safe, in-line and trustworthy. They shared some pretty crazy stats on what that means for their ad network…
Google AdSense New Policies FAQs Teach Publishers New Rules
Google announced the new policies FAQs for AdSense and guess what…
Google Issues Bad Ads Report: 59 Percent More Ads Pulled, But Fewer Bad Advertisers in 2013
In the ongoing battle to keep its ads ecosystem free of scammers and malware, Google says it pulled more than 350 million bad ads from its systems last year, up 59 percent from the 224 million it struck down in 2012. Looking back at last year’s bad ads report, it appears that for the first…
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Google AdSense Back To Square Arrows?
When Google introduced the arrows to the AdSense ads, they came with a colored square background button with an arrow overlaid on the square. Then a year ago…
Google AdSense A/B Test Winner Not Setting?
A month ago, Google launched native A/B testing for AdSense ads.
When Google was 95% confident of an ad type being a winner, it would show you the results and let you choose the winner to continue to run…
Google+ Removed From Google AdSense Scorecard
In June of this year, Google added a Scorecard to the Google AdSense home page portal. The scorecard is designed to give publishers a quick snapshot of how well your ad settings, webpages and content are performing relative to other AdSense publisher…
New: Google AdSense Custom Ad Sizes
Google announced AdSense publishers can now create custom ad size units for both text and display ads on their web sites…
New: Google AdSense Text Ads With Logos
A WebmasterWorld thread has publishers claiming they are seeing a new form of AdSense ads.
The new ad format is a text ad that also displays a logo or image within the ad.
@netmeg sent me a screen shot of this in action:
There is a mix of reacti…
Google AdSense New, Cleaner Home Page Design
If you login to your Google AdSense account you will be prompted to try out the “new AdSense home page.”
The new home page revamps the design of just the home page to give it a “fresh new look.” The new look is cleaner and more modern…
Publishers Slow To Try Google AdSense Experiments
Earlier this month, Google launched AdSense Experiments, an automated and seamless way to test variations in ads so that you can see what types of ads earn you more money.
Google AdSense CTR Dropping
There are dozens of threads at both Google AdSense Help and WebmasterWorld.
Google AdSense Certified Partner Program
Just like with Google AdWords and Google Analytics, Google has now introduced a certified partner program for AdSense.
The program details are at google.com/adsense/start/partners…
Google AdSense Mute This Ad
Back in July 2012, Google introduced a new feature for consumers to mute AdSense ads. In fact, that feature is still documented in the remove unwanted ads help page at Google.
But I believe that feature disappeared when Google introduced their new A…
New AdMob Developers Not Linking AdSense Accounts
Google posted a notice in the Google AdSense Help forums that those developers new to AdMob with unapproved AdSense accounts will currently not be able to link the two together.
Google is working on a fix for this but didn’t give an estimate time of r…
Western Union Declines 5% Of Google AdSense Payments This Month
One of the payment methods that Google offers their AdSense publishers is via Western Union. Well, this month…
Asynchronous Google AdSense Code Now Default Option
Around July 2013, Google released support for a BETA version of asynchronous AdSense code.
It went over very well, so well that it is now not only out of beta a few months later, it is also the default option when you create AdSense ads…