Or – constant vigilance is the IM watchword…
So, you’ve purchased and have been extremely happy with a certain marketers’ products and are ready and willing to continue to buy from that marketer. Makes sense. But it doesn’t mean, unfortunately, that you let your guard down and no longer do the right thing for yourself.
Read through the sales copy! Including the bonuses…
Here’s an example;
Adsense Secrets (thread in the Warrior Forum, you may need to subscribe) – Now, Joel is very well known and this is not meant to disparage him in any way. His long-term customers have already let him know …read more

“You can start monetizing your mobile site by accessing a growing number of our mobile advertisers.”
Good for you, bad for others? Interesting…
“If you have a mobile-compliant website that complies with our program policies, you’re welcome to participate in AdSense for mobile.”
Well, of course Darren would somehow be the first to let us know about Adsense for Mobile, followed by soooo many others including Duncan. Its the comments that have piqued my interest. Consider;
Kat: “For those of us on pay-by-the-byte services, it’s expensive enough to download a regular page, even with images turned off.”
Andrey: “Another issue is that screens of mobile …read more

Perhaps someone at the Techdirt Insight Community will have the ability to answer this one:
Does anyone have “reliable figures available that put Google’s splog problem into perspective.”
Matt Mullenweg pointed to it – “Why Google is the service of choice for sploggers.”
Quoting Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today (a darn good man) Michael Pollitt of The Guardian says: “Google, for better or worse, has its hand in every aspect of spam blogging. It finances them through AdSense, hosts them through Blogger and directs traffic to them via the search engine.”
There is, Bailey believes, some pain ahead for Google: “These sites do make …read more

This post is part of a WorkBoxers series called “Adsense Case Studies“.
I recently approached Alborz who runs a blog with car advice and told him I wanted to do a little experiment with his Google Adsense adverts. I told Alborz that I wanted him to change his Adsense link color to match his sites link color. At the time, Caradvice.com.au had the default blue that is standard with Adsense.
When Alborz makes a post on his blog which contains hyperlinks, you’ll see that the links are a brownish color. My advice was to take this brown color and insert it as …read more

In the upcoming weeks I shall be posting to the Adsense Case Study category where I will be analyzing websites running adsense and advising the webmasters on how better to optimize their adsense adverts.
I will be advising in the following areas;

Adsense placement
Colors
Blending
Relevancy

The first case study will be a website that I have run for almost 2 years, a funny video web log.
Here is what my adsense looked like back in 2004.

Uggrrk. Ugly yes? Not blended, colors way off and just screams “I’M AN AD!”
Here’s what the current Adsense placement looks like. (Click for larger image)

Let’s sum up why this works …read more