Share Your Google AdSense Story Contest

Google AdSense is running a story contest where they want to hear from you about how Google Adsense has helped you. Shoot a video, tell your story, submit it and you could be featured on the AdSense blog in the coming weeks.

Check out the details of the AdSense Story Contest. Shoot your story video (maximum of 2 minutes) and submit it as a video response to Tim’s video. Of course you will need a YouTube account to submit your video.

However, they warn that do not use any trademarked logos, images, or copyrighted material, do not reveal any specific AdSense statistics such as clickthrough rate or eCPM, do not advertise or encourage users to visit your site and click on your ads. And you need to adhere to both YouTube and AdSense Terms and Conditions.

Hurry! they have extended the deadline until November 14th, and are also promising some cool Google schwag. They are looking a simple story from the heart about your own AdSense Story…

Google Gifts USB Memory Cards to Adsense Publishers

Google likes to send Christmas gifts to top Google Adsense publishers. Google has previously sent out wireless mouse kits and last year it was a digital photo frame to its top adsense publishers . This year the holiday gift is 2GB USB Memory cards!
Google Christmas Gift for Adsense Publishers

SEO Roundtable points out that Google Holiday gifts 2007 have started arriving. This time it is a 2GB USB memory card with the Google logo, packed in a neat leather pouch embossed with the Google logo.

Google USB Memory Cards
Are you eligible for a Google Christmas Gift?

Its still a mystery how Google decides which Google adsense publishers get the coveted Google gift to show off. Undoubtedly they are their top publishers and it is a way to thank them for their support and advertising space.

What Adsense earnings should you generate to get a Google gift? Over the years, none of these top publishers or Google has been willing to share the secret cut off earning level. Maybe if you get the gift, you can pat yourself that Google has you listed in their gift list!

Remember earlier some top Google Adwords users got a Google mini fridge and Adsense MTV video ad testers got lava lamps too. Even Google Display Advertising Network members were gifted Google branded laptop bags. I wonder what Yahoo! has in mind to gift its publishers.

Update: John Chow also got it and has a nice video of the unboxing.

Google Adsense Referrals End for Most International Publishers

If you are an Indian blogger trying to promote Google Adsense and hope to make some extra money via referrals, its sad news that Adsense is stopping Adsense referrals outside of North America, Latin America, and Japan! And the referral rate has also dropped to $100!
Reduced referral income

Previously they had modified the Adsense referrals terms and made the referral program very lucrative to publishers.

* Refer someone to AdSense who makes $5 within 180 days - earn $5.
* Refer someone to AdSense who makes $100 within 180 days - earn $250
* Refer 25 people who make $100 within a 180 day period - bonus $2000

As per the new scheme, Any referred user who earns $100 within 180 days of signing up after the change occurs will only generate $100 in earnings for the referring publisher. I remember my first $250 via the referral and it was a huge incentive to keep promoting Adsense. Now many publishers will be demotivated.
Only for North America, Latin America, and Japan

For us even the referral income drop is of no issue, as we will not be able to promote Adsense any longer. For publishers outside North America, Latin America, and Japan, they will end the Adsense referral program by January end. Soon the option to create a referral button for AdSense will disappear and its time to start replacing any existing referrals promoting AdSense with referrals other products

Remember you can still generate referrals for the other products listed under the ‘Referrals’ section of your AdSense Setup tab like the Google Pack, Firefox etc.
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How to Fix Google Adsense Login Errors

I often have Google Adsense login errors when I try to login to my Adsense account. Despite being sure that the username (email) and password are correct, I am unable to login several times. Google has now clarified why it occurs…

“Welcome! You’re signed in to Google Accounts under the email [your email address] and your Google Account password, but this is not a valid AdSense login.” - This is the message you usually get even when you login with the correct email and Adsense password, and you wonder if your account got hacked or something.

Thankfully Adsense clarifies why this error occurs.

If you’re seeing this error message, this means your AdSense account shares the same login and password as a Google Account, but the two accounts are not linked. As a result, when you try logging in at www.google.com/adsense, our system will only grant you access to your Google Account — not your AdSense account. To resolve this issue, you’ll need to maintain two separate passwords.

Then they suggest the solution too. Log out of Google Accounts like Gmail or AdWords. Request a new AdSense password with your login email address. They send a reset link to that email and you choose a new unique password and login back into Adsense account with a new password. Thats all.

You will now have to maintain 2 passwords, till they migrate all AdSense accounts over to Google Accounts! I am sure lots of Adsense publishers like me must be having these errors, so its great they identified the issue and clarified it.
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How To Improve Adsense Earnings On Your Blog

Basic concepts:

• Adsense performs very well when you use the large rectangle format, and place the ad blocks in your content, normally at the top, so it is in front of every person who views the page.
• Visitors who arrive at your pages from search engines (particularly Google) are those who are most likely to click on Adsense ads.
• Your regular readers probably don’t deserve to look at Adsense, and they probably don’t click Adsense ads anyway.

After considering this information it makes sense not to put Adsense on every page of your blog, but just on those articles that are getting a lot of visitors from search engines. For this you need to look at the stats for your blog. I use Google Analytics. Look at old posts and select those that are getting traffic from Google or other search engines. Place a large rectangle ad block at the top of the content on these pages, probably beneath the title.

Problems and Solutions:

The first problem you might have is that even with only having ads on old posts, none of the clicks are paying well, because your topics are in a niche where there is no competition for keywords.

The second problem you may have is that you don’t get a lot of search engine traffic.

Both of these issues can be addressed by doing a little keyword research before you write your article.

Since this article is about Adsense, I will use this as an example. For the information below I used a tool called Niche Inspector, but you can use : This Free Wordtracker page for basic keyword research.

The “Searches” heading gives an estimate of the average amount of searches for that term each day. So the more searches, the more potential. However some terms will obviously have much more competition than others.

Google and MSN Pages gives you an estimate of pages out there that relate to the term, which shows how much competition there is for the term.

CPC (Cost Per Click) gives you an estimate of how much a click will pay out for that term.