Google has announced a new advertising program, AdSense for Mobile, a contextually targeted ad platform for mobile website content.
AdSense for Mobile gives the ability to AdSense publishing partners to earn revenue from their mobile websites through the targeted placement of mobile text ads.
[Google press release, via Techcrunch]
Business Week has an interesting article about How Top Bloggers Earn Money… featuring the people behind popular blogs like Techcrunch, Mashable, Perezhilton, Boingboing, Problogger etc.
Worth a read.
[via Hongkiat]
Yahoo has announced the launch of Yahoo SmartAds, a new advertising platform that delivers tailored display ads to highly targeted audiences.
The new service automatically converts creative campaign elements and offerings into highly customized and relevant display ads by delivering ads according to the Web surfer’s age, gender, location and online activities.
Read more at Techcrunch.
Payperpost launched their marketplace as direct competition with Reviewme.
With the extra $7mil fund from its investors; it would be interesting to see how PPP will fair in the next few months.
Their biggerst problem however, could be the poor quality of publishers… lots of blogs are set up simply for the purpose of making money from […]
Accident happens… Google Adsense team wrote an article to calm webmasters fearing the safety of their account due to accidental click on their Adsense; and they advised against contacting them if it occurs…
As most of you know, our program policies state that publishers are not permitted to click on their own ads for any reason. […]
Jeremy (Shoemoney) made a video on Adsense Arbitrage…
Inside Adsenes made a clarification on accidental clicks.
It’s still ok to integrate ad units and link units with page content or navigation, in order to offer readers relevant ads in addition to the content they normally see.
Advertisespace wrote an interesting article about The 7 Levels of Revenue for your Blog.
1. (The lowest) Google Adsense
2. Affiliate programs
3. Ad networks
4. Automated Text link Ads
5. Fixed Text link Ads
6. Graphical Banner Ads
7. Fixed Monthly Sponsors