Oh My Gosh... It's Omakase!

It was bound to happen. Amazon has entered the contextual advertising game. In case you haven’t yet heard, Amazon.com’s system is called Omakase. Basically, Omakase places AdSense-style ad units on publishers’ Web pages, serving ads to products in the Amazon catalog. The ads they serve are based on a combination...

Innovation - The Secret of Giant Success

Surf the Web for more than about five minutes and you’ll start to recognize a pattern: there are a small number of great sites that do fantastic things... and a very large number of me-too sites that try to make money by doing the exact same thing. Now I’m not...

Is Your Site Fully Monetized?

I’m very happy with AdSense. Ever since I figured out the strategies to make the most of those ad units, I’ve been thrilled at the income I’ve been seeing. But as far as I’m concerned, revenues are a bit like chocolate. You can never have too much. That’s why I...

Blogging — AdSense For Beginners

Those of you who have been reading my site JoelComm.com (and that’s all of you, right?) will know that my mom has just started blogging. I’m so proud of her. You can see her blog at www.travelswithsheila.com, and most importantly you can see how she’s optimized her ads. That’s a...

Searching For The Perfect AdSense Site

Ask a writer what the hardest part of writing a book is and you know what he’ll say? No, not starting... Stopping. I have the same feeling whenever I write one of my books. I’m always wondering if I haven’t forgotten something or whether I could give another example or...

Fancy Owning a Magazine?

One of the strategies for making lots of money with AdSense is so obvious that it rarely gets mentioned: build lots of Web pages. That’s pretty obvious, right? The more Web pages you have, the more opportunity you’ll have to show ads -- and the more clicks you’ll get. And...

AdSense - From Zero to Hero

I've got a brand new case study for you to show just how incredibly easy it is to get started with AdSense. The target of my case study? My mother. :-) Now lest you think I am going to pick on my mom, just hang tight as I am actually...

What Images Can You Put Next To Your Ads?

Building a successful AdSense publishing business is very easy. All you have to do is make sure that your users can see your ads... without seeing that they’re looking at ads. That’s easy, right? If it was really easy, the latest version of my AdSense Secrets book would run to...

Google: The Web's Quality Control

I recently talked about the power of AdSense forums. I could have said the same thing about all of the blogs dealing with AdSense too. There are plenty of those and they’re stuffed with great information from people on the cutting edge of AdSense techniques. The most important of these...