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Is AdSense testing a new way to show advertisements on the 728×90 banners? Take a look at this banner I saw on the Green Blog forum today. AdSense have placed a total of six different keyword ads below the main ads in the banner.

I have only seen this once on the 728×90 banner. Have anyone else noticed AdSense banners like this, what do you think about this new ad solution?

AdSense now let’s their publisher easily change the corners of the banner ads from straight to rounder corners. It looks pretty nice and now you don’t need to create those rounded corners yourself, greatly appreciated!

https://www.google.com/adsense

As you might have noticed, AdSense has recently updated the look of their text banner boxes (Check out the screenshot below). They have only changed the borders making it look more “clearer and more attractive”. They have basically replaced that big area where it said “Ads by Google” with a small image instead.

Read more about this over at the official AdSense blog: http://adsense.blogspot.com

A sneaky AdSense placement.

Google AdSense now allows you to run other contextual programs side by side with your AdSense ads. But only if they don’t have the same look and feel as the AdSense ads. That means you can have the same banner size of the banners but they must have a clear differences in the color scheme.

Now this is pretty sweet but what kind of program besides AdSense do you want and can run next to AdSense? YPN doesn’t allow their ads to be run next to Adsense ads, so YPN (US) beta testers no luck here. Well there is always Clicksor but that isn’t really a dream come true if you get me. Anyone know any other good programs besides Clicksor?

If you use Google AdSense on your site or blog you may want to read some of the updates in their new policy. Jennifer over at jensense.com has written a pretty good article explaining the changes.

Removed was the specific reference to contextuall targeted ads. So the immediate assumption is that using other contextually targeted ads - whether IntelliTXT, Yahoo Publisher Network or another ad network - as long as the ads were formatted in a way that makes them appear different from other AdSense ads. However, there is a slight problem with this… the AdSense terms still prevent publishers from using other contextually targeted ads on a page with AdSense on it too.

http://www.jensense.com/archives/2007/01/what_does_the_r.html

Chris “Long Tail” Anderson looks at Guy Kawasaki’s first year of blogging and how AdSense has failed miserably to monetize it. In short, Guy’s blog is about the 40th most popular blog IN THE WORLD and AdSense brought him only $280 per month.

It’s important to keep these sorts of things in mind when thinking about your motivation for writing a column or a blog.

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/01/dont_quit_your_.html

Theresa Chow of the Google AdSense support team answers several common questions about the program.

1. How many Google AdSense products can I use in each website?
2. How do I get rid of an ad that I don’t want on my site? I have some disagreements with it.
3. In case we would like to add other websites, do we need to create another AdSense account?

AdSense publishers can now add their advertisements on the pages they create using Google Pages.

We’re happy to let you know that Google Page Creator is now compatible with AdSense. Please feel free to add the AdSense code to your Page Creator web pages. If you don’t know how to implement the AdSense code with Google Page Creator, please follow the instructions below:

1. Log into your AdSense accoun t at www.google.com/adsense
2. From the AdSense Setup tab, customize and generate your AdSense code
3. Copy the generated code from the Your AdSense code box
4. Log into your Google Page Creator account
5. Select the web page you’d like to dis play AdSense ads
6. Select the field where you’d like the ads to appear
7. Click Edit HTML
8. Paste the AdSense code in the HTML source code of the page
9. Save your updated web page
10. Publish your web page

After taking the steps above, your ads should appear shortly. If you have trouble implementing the Ad Sense code onto your web page, please feel free to respond to this email.

Good luck, The Google AdSense Team

Do I need to say more? Here is a total of 100 more and less useful tips for AdSense publishers and advertisers. Just be careful, the AdSense team is as we all know very happy to ban anyone, anytime for any reason.

http://www.adsensecheats.com/2006/04/15/100-google-adsense-tips/

PRESS RELEASE: This week, Google killed-off the popular blog Mangosauce.com by pulling the plug on its AdSense advertising - which came as quite a shock to the site’s 100,000 regular readers.

The remarkable success of Google’s AdSense program has spawned a new breed of pro-blogger who can, for the first time, earn a living from what was once just a hobby.

The benefits for the web are obvious but there’s also price to pay. Google now censors almost everything you read. If the public likes a blog’s style but Google doesn’t, the Delaware-based company can withdraw AdSense funding with a single keystroke and leave the site dead in the water.

For the unfortunate blogger who’s invested years of work in a site, it’s as crass as being fired by text-message - and no less devastating.

Google has a duty to withhold ads from websites that might cause offence but the process by which the company arrives at its judgements is deeply flawed. With so much at stake, you might imagine that the process would be fair, transparent and accountable - but it’s not.

Google’s rules are secret. There’s no judge, no jury and no right of appeal. The executioner is an anonymous 20-something snowboarder who, in the case of Mango Sauce, acted with the swaggering impunity of a Roman Emperor.

Full story here: http://www.mangosauce.com/about/google_kills_dissident_blog.php

Unless they act quickly to put their house in order, web-search giant Google might soon feel the heat of a sharp backlash from the embattled blogging community - and possibly the Federal Government.

Google looks set to become the new Microsoft.