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3 years ago, Google Adsense was pronounced dead. Critiques claim that due to click-frauds, advertisers will all flock to Cost Per Action advertisements. How is Google Adsense faring now?

18 August 2009, Google announce enhancement to their ad serving algorithm.
What is it?
Google Adsense system parses and analyzes the content of your webpage, conducts an auction simulation among the relevant Adwords ads, then serves the winning ads to your webpage — all in the blink of an eye!
What happen?
With immediate effect, Google is [...]

Google has just announced via Adwords Blog, a simulation feature to allow you predict and plan for your ads more precisely. Using the bid simulator, you can predict how much to bid for a keyword to get the number of clicks you need.

There a popular discussion recently, about Bing users being more likely to click on ads. I seriously don’t understand the big deal of this revelation. For the uninitiated, Chitika recently released report saying that Google Search users (with 0.97% ad click rate) are less likely to click on advertisements than Microsoft Bing users (with 1.50% [...]

After more than two years with other activities, I have now decided to revive this blog. Yes, it was almost dead, though we still receive occasional comments now and then.
Many things has changed for this past 2 years. The much hyped Google Pay-Per-Action aka Adsense Referrals has gone bust. Facebook has gone from exclusive [...]

Last month, Google introduced Site Diagnostics feature to AdSense.
AdSense publishers will notice a new tab when they log into their accounts next – ‘Site Diagnostics’.
The feature was not longlived, though.
Within a few hours of my post on it the ’site diagnostics’ tab disappeared from AdSense publisher’s reports pages and it has not been [...]

It is bound to happen one day. As click-fraud issues mounting up, AdSense is moving towards affiliate marketing style, introducing cost-per-action ads.
David Jackson of SeekingAlpha reports that Google is inviting a selected group of AdSense webmasters to test out the new “Cost-Per-Action” (CPA) ads. Quoting reprint of Google’s mail:
How do I get paid?
You get paid [...]

A number of AdSense publishers have received invitation from Google to fill in survey related with AdSense. Participants will then have a chance to win a $1000 ‘gift card’.
Webmaster World – AdSense Survey
Digital Point – Google AdSense Survey from Google?
via Problogger

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