2 Create a Website – The Blog

Last week I wrote about the new and improved Ad Review Center (ARC) that began rolling out last month. Now that my account has been upgraded, I wanted to publish a video that highlights some of the ARC features. In addition, you’ll learn more about some of the common AdSense reports and how to maximize [...]

One of the biggest gripes I hear about AdSense is the minimal amount of control Publishers have over the ads that are shown. Well, in case you haven’t heard, Google is about to roll out a new version of their Ad Review Center (ARC).  Now you’ll have even more control over the ads that appear [...]

People often ask me for help when it comes to dealing with disabled AdSense accounts and preventing click fraud. So I did some digging over the weekend.

If you follow me on YouTube, you probably saw my video about my phone call with Google. As stated, I didn’t learn too much from that call, but I did implement three things that seem to have made a difference in my earnings over the last few weeks…

If you follow my Facebook page, you may have seen the picture I posted last week of myself and Tai, who playfully calls himself “The Asian Wonder.” We met at a local WordPress meetup on September 24th.

You don’t typically hear from me twice in one week, but my stats show how much you guys love AdSense-related posts, so I hope you don’t mind a double dose of Lisa this week. I was playing around in the AdSense Performance reports as I often do, and decided to create a few graphs

You may remember me mentioning how well the 728×90 AdSense unit has been performing on this blog. Since then, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how I added it. So I thought I’d create a video showing how to use the Thesis Feature Box function that is built right into the theme. (The [...]

1.  Make room for the 728×90 banner — if you can Obviously you don’t want to crowd your site or make it look awkward, but if your experience with this unit size is anything like mine, you may want to consider opening up a spot. I am now using this banner size on three of [...]

You may have seen this after logging in to your AdSense account… Your ads have recently appeared on websites you haven’t authorized. To avoid lost revenue, make sure to authorize any sites where you display ads by visiting your account settings. When you click the link you’ll find various sites and IP addresses that have [...]

This is a guest post by Andrew Fling of StorehouseBuilder.com. Lisa’s Note: In order to catch up on approved guest posts, I am introducing another blogging day for 2 Create a Website. Thursday will be my unofficial “guest post day” — at least for awhile.  Hope you enjoy! In the Beginning I launched my first [...]

What I did was so simple, I’m almost ashamed to dedicate a post to this. I hope you forgive the simplicity of what I’m about to reveal, but sometimes the simplest changes make the greatest impact. In early November I added a 728×90 unit to the header of my Site Build It! site, Flat Stomach [...]

Google is reminding AdSense publishers to target channels to help maximize earnings for the upcoming Holidays.  If you don’t understand what that means, this video will shed some light… The take-home lesson here is that if you have high-performing channels, it makes sense to allow targeting because placement advertisers will seek them out — especially [...]

People often ask me what strategies work best for AdSense.  I always tell them that it varies from site to site and experimentation is key. What works for someone else’s blog may not work as well for yours. Funny that I’ve been suggesting experimentation for years, but lately, I haven’t really done much of it.  [...]

Thanks to everyone who submitted a reply to my last post where I asked about your best performing AdSense unit. The clear winners are the larger units. The 300×250 and 336×280 were the most popular answers. Monitors are getting wider and so are websites.  So the larger units tend to work well on sites with [...]

How well an AdSense unit performs on a site depends on several different factors… 1) The page the unit is on 2) Ad relevancy 3) Amount and quality of traffic to the site/page 4) Placement of unit So I am by no means about to suggest that one size fits all in regards to the [...]

A CopyBlogger post titled, “How to Do 500 Times Better Than AdSense” really caught my attention last week. It was written by Johnny B. Truant, a blogger who made the decision to stop using AdSense. His strategy was like many others… Johnny created several anonymous sites with loads of search-engine-optimized content. Next, he submitted his [...]

In August, I wrote about the addition of third party network advertisers to the AdSense program. For AdSense publishers this just means there are more advertisers who can compete for ad space on your site. So the ads displayed are not just from the AdWords program anymore.  They can also come from pre-approved, certified networks [...]

On August 25th, Google announced there will be more revenue earning opportunities for AdSense publishers. In the coming months, you’ll be able to display ads from additional networks. Google ensures this will give you, the publisher, the chance to maximize profits from AdWords and ads sponsored by 3rd parties. Some AdSense publishers often complain of [...]

I’ve been testing Chitika on two of my sites for the past two weeks. So far so good.  It’s a great compliment or alternative to using contextual ad programs like AdSense, Kontera, Infolinks, etc. Here’s a video with an overview of how it works… Note: Using Chitika and AdSense on the same site/page does not [...]

If you are already an AdSense member, you may not know that Google recently tightened up their acceptance policies for their popular AdSense program. Gone are the days where you can throw up a quick Blogger blog today and get accepted into the AdSense program by tomorrow. According to their policies, you must adhere to [...]

Mel Ann and Tim of the Australian AdSense team put together a nice video (below) to help you optimize your AdSense earnings. While some of the information in the video is common knowledge to most publishers, there are also some very useful tips. Create Channels Pay close attention to the part about creating channels so [...]

My last post on my top 7 money making programs generated some questions about AdBrite. Some people wanted to know if it’s legal to use with AdSense. Others were curious if it pays well. First of all, yes, it’s OK to use AdBrite in conjunction with AdSense. It does not violate Google’s Terms of Service [...]

It’s a fear many Webmasters have — getting pulled from AdSense for fraudulent clicks or other activity deemed “against AdSense TOCs”. The fear is pretty valid. I’ve heard of people getting pulled from the program for “no apparent reason” (according to them). Of course there are two sides to every story, but it reinforces that [...]

As the AdSense popularity grows among Webmasters, it’s hard to find a site without at least one AdSense unit displayed. And in my opinion, many Webmasters overdo it. Because you want to get as many clicks as possible, it can be very tempting to lace your page header with multiple AdSense ads. After all, the [...]