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Google Adsense announces revenue-sharing percentage

After years of keeping mum on the Adsense revenue share, Google finally broke its silence and announced via an official blog post how much advertising money it shares to publishers.

On the Inside Adsense blog, Google disclosed that:

  • For Adsense for Content (the usual contextual ads you see on most blogs), the revenue share of webmasters is 68%. This means for every $100 that advertisers pay to Google, $68 goes to the publisher while Google retains the remaining $32.
  • For Adsense for Search (ads appearing on Google search results posted on one’s site), the revenue split is 51%-49%, slightly in favor of publishers. This means publishers get $51 for every $100 advertisers pay on Adsense for Search.

What does this mean to us bloggers and site publishers?

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On Google Adsense link units

Got the following email from Google Adsense a few minutes ago.

Hi,

As a publisher using link units on your pages, we’re writing to let you know about a recently resolved reporting issue that affected your account.

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How to filter or block ads in Google Adsense

On your site, Google Adsense ads appear promoting your competitor site. On your gadgets and technology blog, unrelated ads for weight loss and religion sometimes appear.

If you are faced with the following problems as a Google Adsense publisher, what do you do?

The simple answer: you filter or block those unwanted ads. But how exactly?

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Top 10 High-Paying Keywords

My friend, a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) freak who owns at least eight (8) different blogs, and I were discussing yesterday about blogging and how to make money from blogs.

I told him about the article I wrote on 7 easy-to-make blogs that can make you money but he said although these are indeed easy to make, these blogs are not necessarily lucrative.

According to him, if one’s goal is to make lots of money by blogging, one should target high-paying keywords. This got me to researching what these top-paying keywords are.

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Time of day with highest Adsense earnings

Question to Google Adsense publishers: Do you know what time of the day you earn the most Adsense income?

If not, then it’s time to use Google Analytics to find out.

Question to Google Adsense publishers: Do you know what time of the day you earn the most Adsense income?

If not, then it’s time to use Google Analytics to find out.

Question to Google Adsense publishers: Do you know what time of the day you earn the most Adsense income?

If not, then it’s time to use Google Analytics to find out.

Question to Google Adsense publishers: Do you know what time of the day you earn the most Adsense income?

If not, then it’s time to use Google Analytics to find out.

Question to Google Adsense publishers: Do you know what time of the day you earn the most Adsense income?

If not, then it’s time to use Google Analytics to find out.

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What is Google Adsense’s “interest-based advertising”?

A week ago, Google Adsense sent publishers an email informing them of the upcoming launch of interest-based advertising and what changes must be implemented in the site’s Privacy Policy.

What is “interest-based advertising”?

It is basically a way for Google advertisers to reach more targeted users by showing ads based on the interests of a site visitor. If a user, for example, watches a lot of music videos on YouTube and visits primarily entertainment sites, Adsense will show more entertainment-related ads to that user, regardless of the site that user is in.

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How to deal with plagiarists and content scrapers?

Plagiarism and content scraping have been a perennial problem for most bloggers.

Plagiarists are the “copy-and-paste” people who directly lift someone else’s content and who republish it as their own.

Actually, copying an entire article is not really wrong as long as the source is properly credited. But if a blog is a mere mashup or collection of someone else’s content — even if the source is credited — then that is already “scraping.”

In most cases, these scrapers use robots or automated systems that browse the RSS feed of one blog then repost the content on the scraper’s blog. Worse, these scrapers plaster the blog with Google Adsense ads which means they earn by stealing the content of other bloggers.

In their Inside Adsense blog, Google posted solutions to help address these issues.

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