Adsense ToS – How to Make a Privacy Policy
So apparently a few days ago Google changed its Terms of Service for people who have use Google Adsense on their pages. All pages with Adsense on it are now required to have a Privacy Policy. While I was able to add a Privacy Policy page for Money News here. If you still use Adsense for your blog or other site, and need to create a quick/easy privacy policy you can get one here. I also recommend changing the e-mail link to point to a contact page form instead of listing the actual e-mail. Less chance of it getting picked up by an annoying spam bot. All in all its a good thing to have regardless, and it takes less than five minutes to add on to your blog.
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Yieldbuild to Help Adsense Users Increase Their Earnings
Techcrunch recently posted an article about a new program that is still in beta called YieldBuild. What is it exactly? Its a computer algorithm to “automatically optimize your site’s ad spots with the most profitable combination of ad layout, style, and network”. Also the program isn’t just for Adsense users, but includes people who advertise via Yahoo Publisher Network, and Ebay adContext accounts as well.
How does this relate to me making money online? Basically its the lazy man’s advertising network, and needless to say an idea that I absolutely love. This program itself would give bloggers or other webmasters, who are still new to advertising placements, the ability to monetize their sites better. It also allows webmasters who don’t update their layouts often a little change of scenery in ad placements. The idea is that as your readers get used to your ad placements, your ad revenue goes down as they learn to skip over your ads without reading them anymore. With changing of placements they claim to be able to increase your epm by 50-100%(this percentage based on beta trials at Hubpages).
One concern of mine which I did leave a comment about was the part of faq that states that it takes the YieldBuild algorithm about 100,000 impressions to train it. That is an awful lot of page impressions for many webmasters, especially new ones like mine.
Now whats the catch of this program? I’ll tell you now. “YieldBuild is free to try for 30 days. After 30 days, YieldBuilds share is 3% of impressions. You can stop at any time.” If you are interested in participating in the beta program go ahead, and visit their website YieldBuild.com. Let me know what you think about it if you do use it so we can get some feedback about their product.
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Video Ads From Google and You Tube for Adsense Publishers
A few weeks ago I was reading about Google ads on YouTube. Looks like after a few weeks Google has now made it an option for people who have Google Adsense accounts. I found out about the update from the DP Forums in this thread. Also it looks like the story was in the NY times. Hopefully I can get an example shot below in this post today.
I put in key words for that recent Toyota World of Warcraft Commercial which is stirring up a lot of talk in the gaming world.
Post Edited: Looks like the test ad didn’t show up, and only showing a link to YouTube. I added one to my Money News site here. Looks like it only pulls from some approved videos or YouTube Video publishers. Also the ad unit is quite large in my opinion. There is only 3 different sizes to choose from. I picked the middle size for the Money News site.
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Whypark Day Day 30 – Adsense Revenue Slowing Down?
Well I have good news, and bad news about my Whypark trial site. The good news is that I now have about 800 pages indexed, with a little bit of extra traffic trickling in. More traffic means more chances for people to click on some ads, which also happened to be part of the good news.
However the bad news is that the revenue from each click has gone down significantly compared to September. I got worried about that, and checked around to find out that I wasn’t alone. It seems like this month there are many people who are complaining or noticing a substantial drop in Adsense revenue. I have more clicks into this month from the site, but haven’t even hit $1. Has anyone else noticed a decrease in Adsense revenue for this month as well? My sites are all too new to make any determination.
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