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Blogger ccTLD Redirects Break Adsense URL Channels

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:47:25 +0000

Google Blogger recently started redirecting visitors to the ccTLD version of Blogger appropriate for the reader’s location. Unfortunately, this has broken URL Channels in Google Adsense.
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Google Adsense Serving Up Malware?

Stephen Cronin — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:51:47 +0000

Tonight I was browsing the Internet, when my virus software notified me of a potential threat from openstat.ws. None of the websites open in Firefox had a link to this site in the source. After some investigation, it appears that the potentially malicious site is called by Google Adsense.

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How To Prevent Smart Pricing – Great Solution

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:51:28 +0000

Some of my most popular posts are those in my make money online series that discuss how to avoid Adsense smart pricing by displaying Adsense only to search engine visitors. Now I’ve found the most complete solution to the problem of smart pricing, over on the Blog associated with RT’s backlinks service … [visit site to read more]

Show Adsense To Search Visitors Only – On Blogger

Stephen Cronin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:14:53 +0000

Want to make money online with Google Adsense? If so, you better make sure you don’t get smart priced! One of my most successful posts covers how to avoid smart pricing by only serving Adsense to search engine visitors. That post was written for the WordPress platform. In this post, I outline how to do the same on Blogger blogs (although there are severe limitations). … [visit site to read more]

Blogger – How To Add Adsense Inside Single Posts Only

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:21:59 +0000

I was recently optimizing Adsense on one of my Blogger sites and decided I wanted to place Adsense inside the posts – but only on single posts, not on the home page or in the archives. Here’s how.

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How To Display Ads Only To Search Visitors

Stephen Cronin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:37:21 +0000

In the past, I’ve written about only showing Google Adsense to search engine visitors, so as to decrease the chance of being smart priced. In this post, you’ll see how to improve the technique outlined previously, so that you can make more money.

Note: Although this post is about showing Adsense to search engine visitors, it’s really about determining whether a user came from a search engine or not. The technique can be used to show search engine visitors whatever you choose, not just Adsense.

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Seth Godin May Be Costing You Money

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:27:14 +0000

This morning I noticed an entry on Sphinn highlighting GreyWolf’s Seth Godin Wants to Cheat Advertisers with Fake Clicks post. It discusses Seth Godin’s Ads are the new online tip jar post, which suggests that readers should click ads to reward bloggers for their writing. To quote Seth:

If you like what you’re reading, click an ad to say thanks.

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Chinese New Year – Introducing My New China Blog

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:01:41 +0000

Happy Chinese New Year! The arrival of the Chinese New Year seems like a good time to announce my new blog at jobsinchina.com. Primarily a blog, for now, JobsInChina will cover issues related to living and working in China. … [visit site to read more]

Finally – The Google Slap…

Stephen Cronin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:39:30 +0000

More Than Scratch The Surface has finally been penalised by Google. I noticed today that my toolbar PageRank has dropped from PR4 to PR0. It appears to only be a toolbar PR penalty – I am still in the same place in the SERPs. … [visit site to read more]

Shylock Adsense Plugin – Hack To Avoid Smart Pricing

Stephen Cronin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:16:49 +0000

In my last post, I talked about Adsense Smart Pricing and how blogs can avoid it by only showing ads to search engine visitors.

One option for WordPress is the Who Sees Ads plugin, which has the ability to do this. I prefer the Shylock Adsense plugin for the reasons given in my last post: automatic placement of ads; no need to enter placeholder in each post; easy to move ads from, say, top right to top left, etc.

The problem with Shylock Adsense is that although it can show ads on old posts only (mostly search engine traffic), there is no option to show ads only to search engine traffic. I really wanted this functionality, so I added a few lines of code to the plugin to enable it. In this post I explain how to do it. … [visit site to read more]