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I’m happy to see an announcement in the Google AdWords blog about how the clickable area on an ad shown on sites displaying AdSense is managed.
In the past, if someone clicked anywhere in the general area of an ad, it registered and off it went, whoosh. In fact I remember my first scare, when […]

I don’t have any pages showing AdSense ads on pages that are behind closed doors, in other words you can’t see them without logging in, but somebody out there reading this probably does.
If so, you can let the AdSense spiders see your page so that it can serve the correct ads by following the instructions […]

I just read a very informative post over at the Google AdSense blog (not that others aren’t informative, but this one struck me as especially so).
Have you ever clicked on an AdSense ad on your own page?  You’re not supposed to, but many people do, or ask their friends to, and that’s clearly against AdSense […]

I noticed a very valuable tip on the Google AdSense blog today. It makes a lot of sense if you read it, and I’m sure there are those that are taking advantage of human nature.
It concerns placing other clickable features of your page near (or on top of, like a pop up) where the […]

That’s where section targeting comes in. You define on your page where the relevant content is, and the spider will concentrate on that section (hence the name section targeting) in order to attempt to place ads in the right context for you.

Google has just announced a change to the way AdSense ads appear to visitors. A quick and random inspection shows that indeed, my ads are different now, and looking good!