On a rather unceremonious way, Google has increased the Competitive link Filter for Google Adsense to 500. They haven't gone official about it as yet. If you are into Google adsense, you must be excited by now and for those who don't know about it, Google AdSense provides the functionality to block specific ads from appearing on your pages. Although Google ads are highly targeted to the content of your page, there may be situations in which you don’t want to display particular advertisements -­ for example, you may wish to block ads leading to competitors’ sites. So now, there is a better chance and more options for you to perfect your Google adsense ads giving you a better chance to profit more from advertises.

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Just now I received the email from Inside AdSense team announcing "sunsetting" (nice use) of video units features. Let's hear it in their own words:

As you may know, we frequently review our products and features to ensure their effectiveness. After reviewing our AdSense video units feature, which allows you to show YouTube content and ads on your pages, we've found that it hasn't had the impact we had hoped for. As a result, we've decided to retire this feature at the end of April so we can focus our resources on other opportunities to help publishers earn from their sites.

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Google AdSense Ad

Google AdSense is showing a very interesting and highly interactive new ad type on our site. For example, the ad shown on the left is from one of our pages (click on the image to view it) where it shows popular hobbies in India along with a Google search box which is presumably usable.Wait, there is more.

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Google Adsense has come out with a new concept as expandable ads, a new type of ad that can appear on your pages. Expandable ads are rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of the ad unit, following a user-initiated action. This creates more real estate for the ad, allowing for more interaction from interested users. For instance, expandable ads may stream a movie trailer, show video game clips, or display various views of an item for sale. Full article (482 words) »

Are you a budding web admin or a blogger? The all important Google God is of prime importance and consideration if you wish to earn from your blog ads. They are almost the sole source of income for you when you are starting.  So better not to offend them. And anyway, many complain that Google blocked their adsense accounts because they just felt like doing it. So I know, how worrying it is at times. There can be a major issue of accidental invalid clicks. You may have just clicked on ads in your blog unknowingly. Will Google ban you for self promotion and self clicks? You must know for sure what are the rules. Full article (355 words) »

This might come as a surprise to you in light of their recent Q3 results in which they beat forecasts by 31% increase in revenue. However let's look at the clear and omnious signs that even Google is not recession proof and may be in more trouble than you realize. Full article (820 words) »

I don't get Google AdSense. Last year with great fanfare they announced making the text of the ad non-linkable while keeping the title and URL linkable. This lead to immediate loss of huge revenue by publishers worldwide. And yet they are glaringly violating their own rules for ImDB.

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Please share your experience with Google AdSense for Feeds. My experience is pretty dismal so far. How bad is it?

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I had Google AdSense running on Health Care blog for a long time. What I didn't notice was that it wasn't making any revenue despite the traffic, and displaying AdSense ads. It wasn't even showing the page impressions, not just not regular channels but also on url channel for the blog!

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Bravo Google AdSense! Every day I am losing my faith in Google technologies. How could any context sensitive technology in the whole wide world think wife sharing guide is relevant to people interested in iPhone 3G? I would rather have no ads than ads for wife sharing on my blog.

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