There’s been some buzz about ad blocking and in particular AdBlock the Firefox extension. Basically some guy decided to ban all Firefox users from his website because of the possibility of them using AdBlock which would cut part of his revenue. Even though I’m kind of against ad blocking, I think he’s dead wrong and […]

In my last post I mentioned that I had discovered one of my websites getting tons of image search traffic. But I also found that I was losing much of the traffic that I kind of deserved. This isn’t a my-website-only thing, actually most websites ranking on Google image search aren’t fully leveraging the “traffic they get”.

Many web publishers, including me, are seeing their earnings from contextual PPC ads like Adsense being marginalized by PPC arbitragers. And the battle of blocking arbitrage / MFA sites seems endless. So what’s left to do? Well, if you can’t beat them, join them!

Sometimes I’m well on my way to make something way more complicated than it really is. Today I was on the verge to cloak my robots.txt file on some creative domain parking stuff.
My simple goal was to block all bots but the Google Adsense Mediabot (Mediapartners-Google/2.1), since I didn’t want to blast out millions of […]

Domain parking isn’t the best strategy if you don’t really have type-in traffic, or another source leading traffic to your domains. Unless you’re actually making decent money from your parked domains, you should transform them into SEO assets. In the long run it will be worth way more to you.

I just logged in to check my Adsense stats and I was surprised when I noticed that I had 2 conversions for Google Adsense. But I was even more surprised to see that I only got paid $10 for them ($5 each). That’s very weird to me since as far as I know it is […] Update: Adsense payment model changed and payments increase: $5 when a user you’ve signed up earns $5 and when the user has earned $100 you’ll get an additional $250.

Revenue sharing is definitely an interesting area for sites based on user generated content. And yesterday Trendwatching.com published a new issue of their trend briefings - this time entitled “Generation C(ASH)“. Their trend briefing is focused around revenue sharing on online medias based on user generated content.
They expect that revenue sharing will be a big […]

It’s common that Adsense publishers block MFA’s with the competitive ad filter to increase their earnings. Now John Chow has written a post about how to do it, but it isn’t as easy as he makes it seem like. There are some issues to be aware of when trying to do it.
MFA lists aren’t always […]

Darren Rowse at problogger.net takes a look at the Google Adsense referrals program to see how it has performed in the last year. In his post he comes to the conclusion that his experience with Google’s AdSense referrals is pretty poor.
I decided to take a quick look at my own stats for the program. I […]