Right now, some bloggers and webmasters are integrating Adsense for search boxes on their websites so that their users can allow to search for keywords, articles or posts and at the same time earning a chance to get click revenue. But I have been asking myself (or maybe some out there are also wondering) if it is okay or fine to use our own Google Adsense for Search boxes to search keywords, articles or posts in our own site? The answer is yes, it is fine to use it as long as you don’t click on the Ads that appear in the results page. Does this violates Google’s program policies to perform searches in our own Adsense for search boxes? Read the rest of this entry »

Just received an email from Google with a subject We are retiring AdSense Referrals

Email message below quoted:

Hello,

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program. We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate your patience during this transition and here are some alternative options to consider:

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After Google Adsense Optimization Update, and for about 3 months of testing their Google Adsense’s sliding or scrolling text ads which we have seen and noticed sometime last December 2007, Adsense officially announced it in their blog yesterday April 2, 2008. And for the record, clicks on the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons won’t generate earnings, but these buttons will help improve both advertiser value and your potential revenue. When users click on the buttons, they begin interacting with the ads and are more likely to find the specific offering they’re looking for, which can lead to higher earnings for you.

After months of testing, we’ve just updated our text ad format to include ‘next’ and ‘previous’ arrow buttons for cost-per-click (CPC) ads. When a user clicks on the ‘next’ button, an entirely new group of ads will appear in the ad unit, giving your users greater control over the ads they see and click.

While the ads the user initially sees may be relevant to a publisher’s content, they may not be precisely what the user is seeking — for example, a user may see ads about cheddar and brie cheese but would prefer more information about Swiss cheese. With the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons, users can view more cheese ads until a Swiss cheese ad appears.

How about you Google Adsense publishers, what’s your take on this scrolling CPC text ads format?

Google Adsense update. The latest post on Google Adsense blog talks about “Another look at optimizations” which mentions two optimization guidelines for your site with Adsense Ads.

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I have just added my site Privacy Policy page to stay loyal to Google. This is copied from Marhgil’s Privacy Policy and it is cool and ok for him to be copied. There is this Privacy Policy generator but when I am about to make one, wow, I can’t understand some of their policy questions.

Quoted from Marhgil’s: How about you, do you already have your own Privacy Policy? You can just copy mine if you want, just edit the pertinent information to make it suit your site. Or you can use this Privacy Policy generator for a more formal one.

I have encountered the latest changes from Adsense Terms and Conditions a week ago when I opened my Google Adsense account. The truth is I have not read all their TOS instead skip the reading part and click the I agree button. I trust Google because I am sure that this is for the good of the Adsense publishers and I know it will not hurt us, publishers.

So How about you Google Adsense publishers out there, do you already have your own Privacy Policy?