Category: Google AdSense

Google AdSense publishers started complaining yesterday that many of their colorful ad units on their web sites went from bright colors to a muted and toned down gray look…

Yesterday we reported how tons of Google AdSense publishers received breach notices over PII (personally identifiable information). Well, that email was sent in error.

Google’s Policy Team posted in the Google AdSense Help forum apologizing…
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The Google AdSense Help Forum is lighting up with AdSense publishers claiming they received a “Policy Breach Notice” email from Google for passing personally identifiable information (PII) through their ads…

Jade Wang from Google announced in the Google Business Help forums that Google My Business Locations now have the ability for businesses to set their primary business category…

Google seems to be tested two new ad styles for their AdSense ad units.

One design places the enclosed arrow in a circle within the center of the ad unit and the other design uses a transparent white, with patterns through the background…

Google seems to be testing yet a slightly different format for their arrows on their AdSense ad units.

A WebmasterWorld thread has one user who posted a picture of an AdSense unit that had an arrow that looked slightly 3D or shadowed…

A WebmasterWorld thread has the normal complaints from Google AdSense publishers – complaints about earnings are down, revenues are dropping and it getting harder and harder to make money with the platform…

Google announced a new feature for the mute this ad option on the ad units.

When you click on the “mute this ad” button, it will ask you why you want to remove the ad and then it will count down from 3 seconds and hide the ad…

Google is constantly testing variations and new ad formats for the Google AdSense ads.

The latest one was spotted by @amitsurti who shared with me a few pictures of this new ad format. The new ad format contains multiples of those circle based AdSens…

Earlier this week, we reported on many Google AdSense publishers claiming some Google AdSense ads were auto-redirecting users from their their site to a spammy site…

There are dozens and dozens of complaints from Google AdSense publishers or rogue Google AdSense ads forcing users from their web site to a spam web site – virtually hijacking their users through weird JavaScript redirects powered by Google AdSense ads…

There are several reports of a bug with Google Image search starting back last week that have gone unanswered in the Google Web Search Help forums.

It seems that this is impacting Windows 7 users who are trying to click on images within Google Image s…

A WebmasterWorld thread has a publisher who has a friend, who was solicited by someone to prepay/buy his Google AdSense revenues up-front, before he earns the money…

Did you know that when you hit a certain milestone with your Google AdSense account, Google may show you an “achievement” card in your Google Adsense dashboard…

You’d think that increasing your click through rates and earnings on your web site would be a good thing that de-stresses you…

couple weeks, there were two high profile stories on AdSense and possible corruption around it.
(1) Google’s Search Ad Policies

Google announced they have enabled their lightbox ads to work across all screen sizes, from desktop, to tablet, to mobile phones.

The new Lightbox ads are now available for all AdWords advertisers globally and work across all devices…

I spotted a thread at WebmasterWorld where a publisher said that Google was testing showing AdSense units without the arrows. We actually saw this in action in mid-November.

But when I was testing for this…