Tech Support, Remote Access and Adsense Fraud
July 20th, 2009 by Sarah KingHere’s a new little twist to the old Click Fraud drama that the Adsense team spend their days combatting.
Nishant introduces himself over at DigitalPoint as a manager for HP Technical Support. He later tells me privately that he’s cooked up a scheme where he and his team will click my Adsense Ads during remote access support sessions on their client’s computers.
So what does this mean? Read the rest of this entry »
Setting up Electronic payments for Adsense
August 14th, 2006 by Sarah KingI logged into check my Adsense the other day and saw that New Zealand is on the list of countries which are eligible for electronic payments.
Setup is easy enough, just follow the steps. The only point of confusion might be in the terminology surrounding the account details.
Sort Code is used in the UK to describe the bank and branch information – in the US too I guess. But it’s alien to us kiwis… Read the rest of this entry »
Revenue Sharing – the Click Fraud Risks
July 28th, 2006 by Sarah KingMy attention was drawn today to another discussion about newbies and their click-n-fraud requests made on their own sites, along side their links on other sites and in emails. Google (and hopefully the other ad networks) quickly blitz these fraudsters and they find themselves without any advertising at all.
A quick search on Google comes up with examples like this:
Now that’s easy situation, but what about when the site involves revenue sharing via a joint account? Read the rest of this entry »
2+ AdSense Accounts, CTR and earnings
February 28th, 2006 by Sarah KingDarren Rowse has an interesting article on one adsense user’s experience with Multiple AdSense Accounts, never mind that I thought multiple accounts were against the TOS.
It’s interesting, though, that your hobby site with low CTR can negatively impact on your optimised site with high CTR. Either the click is worth something, or it’s not?!!
There’s a discussion thread at DigitalPoint on this and I suspect some people are going to be very disenchanted. As for Smart Pricing – that was new to me but you can find out more. I did find this:
Maximum cost-per-click – The maximum cost-per-click (CPC) an advertiser is willing to pay. Our Discounter automatically reduces this amount so that the actual CPC the advertiser is charged is just one cent more than the minimum necessary to keep his/her ad’s position on the page.
but this doesn’t say anything about one site affecting another.
I’ll keep checking, but right now I have a daughter and homework to oversee 
see also: One poorly converting site can “smart price” an entire AdSense account
Adsense Module for Mambo / Joomla
October 12th, 2005 by Sarah KingI decided it was about time I added Adsense to the BMX site. I’d written a custom module for my kiwi blogs site and just had to change the script. I decided this could lead to a maintenance headache for me so I’ve turned it into a “proper” module.
In this version you add Google’s script as a parameter, set the alignment (ie center, left, right) and the number of pixels above and below – this is top stop crowding and accidental clicks, et voila!
This module could be used to put any text into the modules section, not just Adsense.
Download mod_g_ads.zip
Direct links to AFS search results
October 9th, 2005 by Sarah KingAdsense for Search (AFS) is the system where you have a Google search box on your site to present targetted ads. Personally I don’t see the attraction but plenty do.
I’ve become aware of an interesting scenario this week exploiting Adsense for Search, one way was smart and I liked it. The other was pure spam. Read the rest of this entry »
Dodgy Adsense Ads
September 7th, 2005 by Sarah KingFor those of us who want to make a few extra bucks from our websites but don’t want the bother of chasing advertisers and hustling Google’s Adsense program is a blessing. You have alot of control over the ads, can block competitors and you have to do virtually nothing to get going. Read the rest of this entry »
