Questions tagged [google-adsense]
(Different from "Google Ads") Google AdSense is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience.
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Best alternative to Adsense for a small website? [closed]
The accepted answer to this question states that Adsense functions rather poorly. What is the alternative then?
My site has about 400 daily visitors, 1.5 pages/visit - so I'm too small to manually ...
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Is there any way to improve the speed of Google Adsense/Analytics?
Whenever I run Google Page Speed or YSlow, many of the optimisations suggested stem from my use of Google Adsense and Google Analytics.
For example, YSlow says there are "9 external Javascript ...
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Is it possible to use asynchronous google adsense, i.e. non-blocking?
I know that there is a Asynchronous method of using Google Analytics but is there something similar for adsense? I can't find one from my current searches - I was wondering whether there is a common ...
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Hiding and Showing Google Adsense blocks with Media Queries
Is this already acceptable in the Adsense ToS? (can't find any information on this specific case). If the user resizes the browser (css 3):
@media screen and (max-width: 980px) {
#skyscraper { ...
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Adsense click bot is click bombing my site
I have a site that get's roughly 7,000 - 10,000 page views per day right now. Starting around 1 AM on 7/1/12 I noticed the CTR was rising dramatically. These clicks would be credited then de-...
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Google recieves court order to produce information relating to AdSense account
This is a new one for me and doing some quick searching didn't produce and informative results pertaining to my questions. I did find information regarding the case which dates back to 2014.
Today I ...
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Can I expect some income from "utility" websites?
There are quite a few one-page-only websites that are made to perform a simple/single task. Examples of such websites include:
http://dummyimage.com/ -- generates a dummy image
http://www.lipsum.com/ ...
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Can I have multiple AdSense accounts?
Is it possible for me to have more than one AdSense account, or would that violate Google's terms of service in some way?
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$100 coupon from Google AdWords - how to put it for the best use?
I keep getting this email with $100 coupon from Google AdWords that doesn't explain much what is it for and what can I do with it. Is it something worthy or as usual? What should I do with it?
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In Google Analytics 4, how do I link AdSense?
I have previously had AdSense and Google Analytics linked, then I decided to upgrade to the latest Google Analytics 4 (formerly known as App + Web)
Under this new Analytics I have no AdSense data ...
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Do sites without ads perform better in Google search results?
Does Google view sites without advertising as a more reliable source of information and increase the odds of a website returning in the search results?
I ask this for a few reasons.
The main reason ...
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Adsense clicks without any page views
Today (2014-10-20) I noticed that on one website of mine I got two adsense clicks without any page views. How is this possible? And should I worry about violating adsense policies?
This question is ...
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Why create a fake duplicate / clone website?
Here is my problem...
Someone created an exact copy of my website, including my Analytics and Adsense codes and started sending traffic to this fake site around 100k+ visitors a day.
Does anyone know,...
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Google Ads targeting my already long term customers. How to fix this?
My company provides web based services on long term (years) contract basis.
My customers would regularly visit my website to access the updates about their account.
But all my customers have noticed ...
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Can I get google to ban a spamming site from Adsense ?
I've noticed a "site" that stole some of my content and they are displaying google ads. Not responding to my email. I'm quite certain that most of their content is stolen, either from other sites or ...
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How to avoid getting negative points from Google AdSense
I have a news based website in which the primary contents includes news, image albums and videos. Out of these I have copyrights for the images and the videos are embedded from YouTube. My site is ...
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How many months I have to wait to place google ad in my site
How many months I have to wait to put google ad in my website, and my website is three month old. Now have visitors of about 5000+ unique visitors/month. My region is India, somebody told me that for ...
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Ad service that supports ssl (secure publishing)
Is there an add service like adsense that supports SSL ads? I wish to put ads on a secured (https) pages but Google Adsense doesn't support it. I know Adbrite works for text based SSL ads but I ...
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What percent of width can an adsense ad unit use without income falling off?
In an effort to follow google adsense's policy of not pushing content down the fold with use of a very wide ad unit, I decided that on my webpages, I use only square ads so that text is around the ad ...
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Does anyone know how to block Evony?
There are lots of posts on Google's forums about Evony and their shady tactics:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=7c9ef267b8b3c01f&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/...
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Cookie consent overlay - Does it affect SEO?
I have a german website with Adsense integrated. To meet Google's compliance requirements, I ask users to accept cookies for personal advertising.
To achieve this, I created an overlay which stays in ...
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AdSense blocking by category: the numbers don't add up?
At the top level, the Finance category is shown as performing badly:
Finance: impressions 8.1%, income 4.9%
I go in, and I see the following sub-categories:
Credit & Lending: impressions 0.9%, ...
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How can I have more clicks than page views in AdSense
One of my AdSense ad units (in the new beta interface) occasionally says that I have more clicks than page views which gives a CTR of over 100%. Does anyone know how this happens? I'm assuming it ...
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Can I load adsbygoogle.js only once before head close tag
I have three responsive ads within a page. Every ad unit loads adsbygoogle .jsbefore rendering.
<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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Decide what ads to show myself rather than having AdSense choose for me
In order to show relevant ads to a user I just put Google code on my site and they target the ads based on their knowledge of that user. Is there anyway I can use AdSense or any other advertising ...
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Do cryptocurrency webminers in a blog violate adsense policies?
JavaScript based webminers are used to mine cryoto currencies by using visitors computing power on several sites. Is that illegal? Do they violate adsense policies ? As of now according to adsense ...
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Problem integrating Adsense with Google Analytics
(Cross-posted to Web Applications)
I've posted it once to the adsense ad forum, but as usual Google does not respond to help requests, and I got no real answers.
I am having issues integrating my ...
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Google AdSense alternative for the Netherlands
The AdSense account of a client of mine got banned by Google, after filing a reconsideration requests it ends in a permanent deactivation.
I'm now investigating the alternatives he has when it comes ...
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Youtube - preventing ads of my competitors on my videos
I want to start and upload to youtube every day a new video for my commercial use.
The videos are suppose to serve existing clients and potential clients and are given free to everyone .
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How to get youtube-style ads in adsense on website?
I've seen some websites use a new style of ads from Adsense, they take the entire page and make you wait X seconds before being able to skip it.
I thought it's the page-level ads of Adsense, however ...
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How to cancel an accidental AdSense click with Google?
My computer decided to be stupid again. It seems when I do some action, the mouse pointer goes wild and random clicks happen, but then again my software could be bad as well.
The point is, when I was ...
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Google AdSense setup for multiple websites with different subjects
I set up Google AdSense last year for a technology blog that I own. When registering, I had to say what the site was about, so I obviously choose technology as my website's subject.
Now I have set up ...
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Advertising on personalized pages behind a login
I am currently building a web app which requires a user to log in. After they log in, they can see the content they've added to the web app, and things that the web app has done with the content they ...
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alternatives to google adsense for ajax reloads
What alternatives to google adsense are availalbe that support the reloading of ads through and AJAX application?
I can't locate one.
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Do AdSense policies allow loading ads in the window load event?
The official help does not mention such modification, but people mention this solution at various places on the net, saying they do this for quicker page load.
How can one be sure that it's an ...
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Google AdSense - providing access (via an additional account?) to a third party
I am working with a partner who will be handling the marketing side of things for one of my websites. He has informed me that he will require access to my AdSense account.
I need to create an ...
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Does the adsense bot ever get bored?
Each time someone clicks on a page like
http://www.example.com/crazy.cgi?input=silly+banana
where the "silly banana" bit represents some arbitrary user input which changes each time, I get yet ...
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How to handle AdSense ads on an SPA - single page app?
I have an SPA (single page app) that I'll display AdSense ads on it.
The main reason I've designed as an SPA, is because I do not want users to refresh the page in order to see different content. All ...
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Sharp drop in adsense revenue
My Adsense revenue for a particular site suddenly plummeted (About halved over one or two weeks).
How can I find out why ?
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What is a "data-ad-slot" for Google Adsense and why is inline styling required?
I have this adsense ad code:
<script async src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
style="display:inline-block;width:...
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Responsive link units in AdSense
As of now, it appears that the only way to implement Google AdSense ad units for a website built on responsive design is to use the Google responsive ad units. However, it appears that there is no ...
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Adsense alternative for a "Sex Education" website?
I am creating a nice and niche "Sex Education" website. No porn, nothing offensive and no scams. I would love to place Google Adsense but they do not allow ads on adult sites.
I would like to know ...
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Spacing between an AdSense advertisement and website content
I read Google's AdSense policies regarding spacing between advertisements and website content, and all they state is "adequate spacing" but I'm not sure what is considered adequate.
Is specifying a 1%...
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Where to get ads for my website?
My website is getting around 100 visitors per day so I was thinking that I should put some ads on my website but it is really very hard to find the best advertising plan which can benefit me the most. ...
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What is the right approach to use AdSense with responsive web design?
Recently I was studying responsive design a lot and designed couple of sites. But I was wondering how would I use Google AdSense (which is pixel based) ads on my responsive design?
Very typical ...
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What CPM can we expect once we outgrow AdSense?
I've been advised that once a site reaches a certain level of traffic it's possible to get more lucrative ad providers on board that give better return than AdSense.
For a reasonable sized ad above ...
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MediaWiki and EU cookie consent
I own a MediaWiki website that is showing Google AdSense. As of September 30th 2015 AdSense requires compliance with the EU cookie law.
The Google Adsense Team is pointing to https://www.google.com/...
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Purpose of ads.txt
I run google adsense ads on my site.
I don't really understand what the purpose of ads.txt is and what risks are there for me without ads.txt.
Everywhere I looked there were vague descriptions of ...
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Alternative to Google Adsense which has good international coverage
I have a technical blog (programming related) which has around 500 visit per days, 70% are international visitors and 30% are from US/CA.
Google Adsense disabled my account due to invalid clicks so I ...
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