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Join us for a top tech tips webinar this week
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
This
Wednesday, May 26th at 5pm GMT
, we’re hosting a live webinar to share some top tech tips with you.
To register for this webinar, please visit our
Help Center
.
The topics we’ll cover in this webinar are:
How to determine which ad variations perform best for you
How to use HTML/CCC to wrap text around ad units
How to ensure your best-performing ad units are defined first in your ad code
Using Google Analytics to better understand your users and make your ad implementations more effective
Using Webmaster Tools to increase the index and rank of your site
Prior to the webinar, you can post your questions on our
Google Moderator
page and we'll address them during the webinar.
Posted by Caroline Halpin - AdSense Optimization team
The AdSense revenue share
Monday, May 24, 2010
Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — AdSense for content and AdSense for search.
As you may already know, AdSense is comprised of several products. The most popular are AdSense for content, which allows publishers to generate revenue from ads placed alongside web content, and AdSense for search, which allows publishers to place a custom Google search engine on their site and generate revenue from ads shown next to search results. Since AdSense for content and AdSense for search offer publishers different services, the revenue shared with publishers differs for each of these products.
AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense publishers, earn a 68% revenue share worldwide. This means we pay 68% of the revenue that we collect from advertisers for AdSense for content ads that appear on your sites. The remaining portion that we keep reflects Google's costs for our continued investment in AdSense — including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads. It also reflects the costs we incur in building products and features that enable our AdWords advertisers to serve ads on our AdSense partner sites. Since launching AdSense for content in 2003, this revenue share has never changed.
We pay our AdSense for search partners a 51% revenue share, worldwide, for the search ads that appear through their implementations. As with AdSense for content, the proportion of revenue that we keep reflects our costs, including the significant expense, research and development involved in building and enhancing our core search and AdWords technologies. The AdSense for search revenue share has remained the same since 2005, when we increased it.
We also offer additional AdSense products including AdSense for mobile applications, AdSense for feeds, and AdSense for games. We aren’t disclosing the revenue shares for these products at this time because they’re quickly evolving, and we're still learning about the costs associated with supporting them. Revenue shares for these products can vary from product to product since our costs in building and maintaining these products can vary significantly. Additionally, the revenue shares for AdSense for content and AdSense for search also can vary for major online publishers with whom we negotiate individual contracts.
Of course, we can’t guarantee that the revenue share will never change (our costs may change significantly, for example), but we don’t have any current plans to do so for any AdSense product. Over the next few months we’ll begin showing the revenue shares for AdSense for content and AdSense for search right in the AdSense interface.
We hope this additional transparency helps you gain more insight into your business partnership with Google. We believe our revenue share is very competitive, and the vast number of advertisers who compete to appear on AdSense sites helps to ensure that you’re earning the most from every ad impression. Additionally, when considering different monetization options, we encourage you to focus on the
total
revenue generated from your site, rather than just revenue
share
, which can be misleading. For example, you would receive $68 with AdSense for content for $100 worth of advertising that appeared on your site. If another ad network offers an 80% revenue share, but is only able to collect $50 from ads served on your site, you would earn $40. In this case, a higher revenue share wouldn’t make up for the lower revenue yield of the other ad network.
We’re continually working on helping you improve the returns from your site while giving you more control and insight into AdSense. For example, we continue to improve our technology so that we can deliver even
better matched ads
and attract even
more
advertisers
to your websites. Additionally, we recently began providing more granular ways to
find and review
the ads on your site, as well as the ability to
filter more ads by category
. We’re also focused on finding other ways to make AdSense better for you. As you may remember, last December, we asked for your
ideas and feedback
on how we can make AdSense better. We received more than 600 suggestions and 35,000 votes, and we’ve been reviewing them all.
Keep an eye on this blog for updates about the new features we’re building to help you maximize your advertising revenues.
Posted by Neal Mohan, Vice President, Product Management
Category filtering available in 13 languages
Thursday, May 20, 2010
If you're an international publisher who's been waiting for
category filtering
, we're happy to let you know that we're continuing to expand the feature's availability worldwide. It's currently available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and Arabic. In addition, we're beginning to roll this out in beta for Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian -- although we're not able to add additional publishers to the limited beta at this time, we're working to make category filtering more widely available in these languages soon.
With category filtering, you can prevent ads from up to 11 specific categories from appearing on your pages. Ads in these categories will be filtered if they're in any of the supported languages, regardless of how they've been targeted to your pages. To start using category filtering, sign in to your AdSense account and visit your Ad Review Center, located under the 'AdSense Setup' tab. Once you click 'change', you'll be able to view the full list of categories you can filter. In addition, you can see the percentage of revenue and ad impressions you've been receiving from each category in the last 30 days; this information can help you understand the impact that applying filters might have.
To learn more about category filtering, please visit our
Help Center
.
Posted by Arlene Lee -
Inside AdSense
Team
Two new ways to optimize AdSense on your website
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Publishers frequently ask for new ways to increase the relevancy of the AdSense ads shown on their sites. Today, we're pleased to announce two features to help you display highly targeted ads to your users in new and exciting ways.
AdSense for Search Ads Only
You may remember that last year, we introduced the
Custom Search element
to help you easily bring Google search results and ads to your site. More recently, we introduced
data rendering
to give you even more control over how the results are shown to your users.
We understand that some of you may have your own, non-Google search results that you'd like to monetize. In the past, this typically meant that you weren't able to use AdSense for search ads. Now, with
AdSense for search ads only
, publishers can now include AdSense for search ads on their pages and pair them with their own, homegrown search results.
By adding just a few lines of JavaScript to your page, you can display AdSense for search ads above, beside, or below your own search results. You can pick the size, shape and number of ads displayed in each block, and you can even adjust the style of the ads to better fit the look and feel of your site. For instance, check out how seamlessly MerchantCircle has integrated AdSense for search ads only above and next to their
search results
.
AdSense for Ajax
Whether your site offers your own search results or not, if you have dynamic content, you may be interested in delivering your
AdSense for content
ads with
AdSense for Ajax
. With traditional AdSense for content, ads refresh only when a page is reloaded. This works great -- but isn't optimal when your site relies heavily on Ajax, which allows visitors to navigate a lot of content without actually leaving a single page. Also, sites that generate a lot of dynamic content that isn't crawlable are difficult to target accurately.
Here's where AdSense for Ajax comes in. With AdSense for Ajax, your AdSense for content ads will refresh whenever there's a context change - regardless of whether the page reloads or not. Travel site
trip.com
has taken advantage of this by showing relevant ads based on the selected tab. Try clicking on the "Hotels" tab. The page doesn't reload, yet the Ads by Google have refreshed to show ads more relevant to hotels than flights.
In addition to the ads refreshing, you might wonder why the subject of the ads changed since the crawlable content on the page didn't change much when the tab changed. The second benefit of AdSense for Ajax is that it allows you to provide hints about your site's uncrawlable content with each refresh.
Both of these AdSense features can be easily added to most sites by just copying and pasting a few lines of JavaScript code, which will help you show highly relevant ads to your visitors.
Sound right for your site? Please sign up to try out
AdSense for Ajax
or
AdSense for search ads only
today!
Posted by Adam Feldman, Product Manager and Michael Brandell, Product Specialist
Join us for an AdSense for search webinar this week
Monday, May 17, 2010
We’re hosting a live webinar to share our tops tips on optimizing
AdSense for search
on
Wednesday 19th May at 5pm GMT
.
You can register for this webinar through our
Help Center
.
In this webinar we'll cover:
Implementing and customizing AdSense for search
Optimizing your search results using AdSense for search performance
Improving your search results using keywords
Custom Search Engine advanced features
You can already start asking questions related to this topic on our
Google Moderator
page and we'll do our best to address them during the webinar.
Posted by Posted by Caroline Halpin - AdSense Optimization team
Live AdSense webinars available in six languages
Thursday, May 06, 2010
The AdSense team is hosting a new series of live online webinars this summer. These webinars will focus on AdSense for Search, important technical tips, and best practices for optimizing ad placements, formats and colors on your site. Our first webinar is:
AdSense Optimisation Best Practices
Wednesday 12th May at 5pm GMT
In this webinar we'll guide you through how you can implement AdSense on your site for optimal results. We'll cover:
Optimizing your AdSense for Content implementation by choosing the right placements, ad formats and colour palettes
Tracking the results of your changes via
channels
Improving the user experience and generating additional revenue with
AdSense for Search
You can sign up for our webinars through our
Help Center
. These webinars are also available in German, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Just change the language drop-down to see what's available in your market.
Prior to the webinar, you can start asking questions related to this topic and vote on others’ questions in our
Google Moderator
. We'll answer as many questions as possible during the live event. If you're not familiar with Moderator, please check out our
Google Moderator Help
.
Posted by Caroline Halpin and Miguel Romar - AdSense Optimization Team
Site maintenance on Saturday, May 8
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You'll be unable to log in to your AdSense account during this time, but we'll continue serving ads to your pages and tracking your clicks, impressions, and earnings as usual. In addition, your ad targeting won't be affected.
We've converted the maintenance start time for a few cities around the world:
London - 5pm Saturday
Alexandria - 8pm Saturday
Hyderabad - 10:30pm Saturday
Jakarta - 12am Sunday
Perth - 1am Sunday
To learn more about what goes on during these maintenance periods, check out this
Inside AdSense post
.
Posted by Dia Muthana -
Inside AdSense
team
Additional publisher resources: Using Webmaster Tools
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
In the second part of our ‘Additional Publisher Resources’ video series, Deborah Chang will explain how website owners can use Google’s Webmaster Tools to ensure that their site is properly indexed in Google’s search engine. Webmaster Tools is a powerful tool where publishers can gather information on what sites on the web link to them, under what keywords they’re site is likely to be found, and how they can improve their sites’ load times.
Posted by Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo -
Inside AdSense
team
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