Yet again another advertisement from AdWords on my site to prove the fact that most advertisers are taking the AdWords for a ride. Or did Google took over some perfume business and now started selling perfumes? Google apparently doesn’t seems to have much control over their own system! Take a look at the screen shot below and be the judge
Continue ReadingIf you are a publisher who hasn’t been able to make the amount of money you have always dreamt of making from your website’s ad space, your frustration is about to be over. Rubicon project is about to shake up the Internet advertising industry very soon and it will affect you too! What is Rubicon project? Rubicon project combines the ad inventory from over 300 ad networks and serves ads on your website by automatically optimizing your website’s ad space
Continue ReadingText-Link-Ads has launched a Cost Per Click (CPC) Ad program called ShoppingAds. I received a private invite to this program and if you are a TLA publisher, you might have received it too. I have made quite a few observations that might be of your interest if you are looking at trying out new Ad networks for making money from your websites. Here are my initial observations about ShoppingAds. Similar to Chitika and AuctionAds- This new program is very similar
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I am a subscriber of Moneycontrol.com which is one of the leading stock market related website in India. I regularly receive their newsletter by email that shows excerpts of their latest analysis and stock market related news and information. [See the screen shot below]. I had noticed it on various occasions that their newsletter contains a section called ‘RELATED ADS’ that had a list of phrases and I always thought that those were sponsored links from some companies and if
Continue ReadingWhat’s the difference, you might ask! There is a very thin line between commercialization and monetization from a blog owners’ perspective. But that thin line is very much noticeable by blog visitors. A blog owner may not be consciously doing it but may happen without him even noticing it. Below are certain aspects that might help you understand the difference. Commercialization of Blog: When commercialized, a blog is heavily dominated with advertisement, content promoting commercial products and a lot of
Continue ReadingBy now, you must be aware of the announcement made by Google about their new PPA (Pay-Per-Action) program which marks their debut in the affiliate marketing industry. Google, so far, had been leading the advertisement industry with their AdSense and AdWords programs and with their launch of Pay per Action programs, though in beta test mode, existing AdWords users can right away signup for the beta program and start using it (beta feature is currently available to AdWords advertisers in
Continue ReadingGetting to know the best ad format can dramatically improve the overall performance of the Ad program for your site. Let it be Google AdSense, Yahoo YPN or any other Ad program, the same trick applies to all. The performance of your ad units, in terms of CTR, directly depends on the source of the traffic from which visitors visit your site for various reasons. The primary sources from which you receive visitors on your site are: Search Engines –
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