Tag: ADSENSE

It's time for YouTube to start earning its keep. Back when Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion a lot of us were wondering how Google planned to make money from the video sharing site. And for a year or so, the company has been talking about embedding ads in YouTube videos. A while back, Google even started offering an ugly ad unit that fits in the border of embedded YouTube videos (pictured ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! This edition covers: Google reworks Adsense, again... and again Blogger users can use Blogger url as OpenID Google still bidding for the 700 Mhz spectrum in FCC auction Google reworks Adsense, again... and again Much commotion ensued after Google Adsense decided that publishers who send referrals from outside of North ...

We don't know about you, but we can't count the number of times that we've visited a web site, seen the limited number of ads in the sidebar and thought to ourselves, "wouldn't it be great if there were more links I could click on that would take me to pages where people want to take my money?" OK, we might be kidding (or we might not, you be the judge). But Google is apparently testing out a ...

If you have Google AdSense on your web site in the hopes of making a few bucks, odds are you spend way too much of your day obsessively reading your AdSense reports. But for a company that has a robust web analytics tool, Google's AdSense reports are a bit thin. You can find out how many people are clicking on ads and how much money you're making, but there's no graphs and no good way to view ...

RSS feed publisher FeedBurner has rolled out a new option for monetizing your website. You can use FeedBurner to add Google AdSense in between posts on any blog or website. What you can't do is the place Google AdSense advertisements in your site's feed. It's a bit puzzling that the Google-owned RSS publishing company is launching a service that has nothing to do with RSS feeds. There are ...

Google plans to update its AdSense management console for web publishers. Right now if you want to tweak the color scheme, round off the edges, or make other changes to Google AdSense advertisements, you need to generate new code. If you have ads scattered across dozens of websites, that can be a bit of a hassle. Under the new system, you'll be able manage all of your AdSense settings on ...

The world of video advertising has only just begun. Google announced AdSense units using YouTube videos, and now Blinkx will be rewarding users for sharing video online. Google offers AdSense customers a chance to provide exclusive content by placing ads over the top of online videos. But these flash ads can be distracting if you're watching a video. Blinkx takes a different approach by putting ...

A few weeks ago some Google AdSense users started to notice a ad unit: YouTube videos. Now Google has officially announced the new video advertising system with a really boring video on the AdSense blog. In a nutshell, AdSense customers can sign into their accounts, select the new video units, and set up a YouTube video channel with advertising. In other words, visitors to your site will see a ...

You didn't really think Google paid $1.65 billion for YouTube without hopes of making some money on the site, did you? While attempts to insert ads directly into YouTube videos have been met with lukewarm reactions at best, the company hasn't given up on the idea of making money off of online video. The latest strategy appears to be inserting AdSense text-based advertising into the video player. ...

CNN, the much respected news source, has just signed an advertising deal with Google to be the exclusive provider of online ads on CNN.com. The deal will place Google AdSense ads that are contextually relevant alongside CNN's online content. Together with CNN's high quality, high traffic website, and the desire to serve customers relevant advertising, paired with Google's high quality directly ...

Get ready to watch some new content care of Google and the creator of the Family Guy series pretty soon. The company has just inked a deal with a movie financing company to syndicate video shorts made for internet viewing. The content will be handed over from the creators behind Family Guy, the fictional family from Quahog Rhode Island, and will feature original content staring Disney's ...

As if it wasn't hard enough to navigate the web on a 2 inch screen using a telephone keyboard, Google is making it easier for web designers to toss a few ads your way. The company is reportedly beta testing AdSense for mobile. The mobile advertising service will work pretty much the same as the desktop version. Google will add contextual ads to sites optimized for mobile browsers. The ads should ...

Getting your website or blog ready for AdSense isn't always a picnic, and trying to peg the right keywords to generate the best ads for your audience can often prove to be a cryptic game of whack-a-mole. Sure, Google offers their own basic sandbox for building your ad units, but they don't really help you with either of the aforementioned tasks. Thankfully, Amit Agarwal has stepped up to the ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Six_ways_Twitter_can_make_money'; A web 2.0-sized boatload of buzz has surrounded Twitter, the addictive service that allows its users to answer one simple question: what are you doing? The service has made appearances in everything from your friend's blog to the New York Times, and everyone seems jazzed about how fun tweeting is. While we're all having a ...

Everyone knows its America's number one pastime, and now Google has announced their entrance into the TV ad market. There has been a lot of speculation recently surrounding the fact that Google's been nosing around the TV market to extend their offline ad experimentations, and it was just a matter of time before the news officially dropped. With this new TV Ad trial, Google hopes to improve user ...