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Google Adsense Admin Down? (Problem Resolved)

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Looks like Google Adsense Admin is down at the moment - the first time I have seen this happen, as far as I recall. The first I knew about it was when my Adsense Notifier Firefox Extension showed no impressions / clicks. Haven’t seen any messages of scheduled downtime, and I’m getting forwarded to a […]

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Special Characters In Adsense Ads

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

I’ve just come across the following Adsense ad on one of my sites, which seems to include a special character looking like an arrow:

I’m really not sure what to think of this - it did seem to stand out on the page compared with the other ads, which could be a good thing for click-throughs. […]

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Workboxers: Sneaky Adsense Placement

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Workboxers has picked up on one of the sneakiest implementations of Adsense that you’re likely to see.
But it’s worth remembering that with any clever Adsense tricks, it’s worth contacting Google themselves to see if it is within their guidelines, as one man’s clever positioning could be Googles interpretation of tricking the user, and could get […]

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The F-Shape Reading Pattern

Monday, April 17th, 2006

Jacob Nielsen has released some more eye-tracking study results which back up the conclusion that visitors read websites with an “F-Shape Pattern“.
The results of the survey, emphasised by some fascinating images of the eye-tracking, seem fairly consistent across different website types, such as a corporate (”brochure”) website, an e-commerce site and a search engine results […]

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Amazon Competitor To AdSense?

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

SitePoint writer Chris Beasley says that he has been contacted by Amazon and asked whether he wants to take part in a trial for a new contextual ad network in the style of Google AdSense.
Sounds like good news to me - more competition = better choice and hopefully more money for publishers. Watch this space […]

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