Earning revenue from YouTube videos just got easier
We’d like to let you know about two recent improvements to video units that make them more easy and appealing to place on your sites. First, we’ve partnered with some new content providers that we’d like to highlight. These partners have signed on to let AdSense publishers embed their videos and share in the ad revenue.Broadbandtv: “Broadbandtv is partnering with YouTube to bring the very best video program lineup to a growing and engaged online audience. Broadbandtv shows include hits from Fashion, Celebrity News, Sports, Technology, Comedy and Travel to top notch Spanish-language TV series like Somos Tu y Yo.”Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: “CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada’s national public broadcaster and one of its largest cultural institutions. CBC/Radio-Canada is available how, where, and when Canadians want it.”The Orchard: “A global leader in digital music, video, new media and brand services, The Orchard offers family content like Gumby, Mr. Bill, My Favorite Martian, and other categories of content like music and comedy.”To give you a better idea of the videos that are available for syndication to your site, we’ve also created a gallery of some featured video units content partners. Note that to choose any of these content providers for your video unit, you should get their YouTube username by visiting their YouTube channel, and then put this username into the “Channel” field when choosing content for your unit.Second, we’re happy to announce that video units now support 728×90 and 160×600 formats to more easily fit into your site. These two new formats will feature five video thumbnails - when a user clicks on one of the thumbnails, a full sized video unit will appear, along with accompanying ads:728×90 video unit
728×90 video unit, expanded
160×600 video unit, expanded
You’ll generate earnings for valid clicks or impressions on the ads which appear. To use the new formats, you’ll need to create new video units by visiting your AdSense Setup tab. To choose the new content for your video units, you can edit any of your players or set up new video units dedicated to this new content. Please keep in mind that video units are currently only supported for English or Japanese-language accounts in the following regions:Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United StatesFinally, if you haven’t edited or made a new video unit recently, you may not have noticed that you can now preview the kinds of video that will show up in the unit, based on the filtering choices you’ve made. We heard that you wanted more insight into the types of content that would display, and we think this will help.While you can use video units like any other ad, they’re also a great addition to the content of your page. So we encourage you to use video units as you may have used embedded YouTube videos in the past - to add variety and interest for your users.Thanks for all the feedback that’s helping us to make video units more useful to you. If you have more thoughts to share, please leave us a comment.Posted by Ryan Hayward - AdSense Product Marketing
Another Way to Make Money Online
Whenever people ask me the optimized way to make money online from their website I suggest them using 3 things combined:
Adsense
Kontera
One or two links from any of the text link buying program like TNX or text link ads
I suggest these three things together because in my opinion none of them eat up the revenue from the other programs. Kontera is proved not to reduce the Adsense earnings. And, text link ads are hardly clicked. They are there for the SEO benefit only.
So what is this new way to make money online?
Well, it is just one more option for the third option above. That is, one more network to sell links on your website. Why this new back links selling network is a good way to make more money? I will just explain that.
This new back links network is very similar to TNX or text link ads but with a big difference. The difference is their referral program.
You can make money in two ways:
By selling links on your websites
By referring other webmasters for $25 each [auto accepted]
Why is it good?
Their referral program is great because they pay you $25 for each person you refer joins as a publisher to sell links and sells at-least one link. The referrals are accepted automatically into the program. Yes, everybody is accepted. Your referral just need to sell one link on your site (may be just for $0.50) to get you $25 in referral fee.
So, just do the following:
Register with them.
Add a site and sell at-least one link on it.
Refer webmasters and make sure that they sell at-least one link on their site.
That is it. You will make $25 on every account referred.
So, don’t you think its a good idea? In my opinion, it is. So go ahead and register.
AdSense Retire their Referrals Program and Launch the Google Affiliate Network
Today AdSense announced that they are drawing their ‘Referrals’ program to a close and are relaunching a new Google affiliate network. In actual effect the new affiliate network is not ‘new’ - but a rebranded version of DoubleClick’s Performics Affiliate Network which they acquired in March.
This is news that many of us expected - particularly since Google bought DoubleClick earlier in the year. It’s also not surprising as most publishers that I know have had very little success with the Referrals program within AdSense. In fact I’m one of the only people that I know who made much from it - and that almost dried up when they changed the referrals program for AdSense.
If You Promote AdSense Referrals Products…
If you’re a blogger promoting some kind of AdSense Referrals product it’s time to remove the ad and replace it with something else. You can still run the ads but they’ll stop working in the last week of August.
It is not clear whether the referrals that you’ve made that have not converted will also become void in the last week of August also. This is something I’d like to see AdSense clarify as some of their programs have quite long lead times for those that you refer to ‘convert’ and therefore to earn you money.
Google Affiliate Network
The new Google Affiliate Network does not something that everyone will be able to use. They say that they are targeting sites with largely US based traffic - I’m yet to see any clarification on how they’ll be filtering publishers, whether there is a traffic based minimum to get in etc. Time will tell as publishers start applying. At present I know that Performics has accepted me as a publisher (I was previously using it) so it’s not too hard to get into I hope!
No More Google Affiliate Products
Those of you promoting ‘Google Products’ through the current ‘Referrals’ system should know that there are no plans at this point to have these products available to promote through the new affiliate network. They may come later but my sources at Google say that these programs are coming to an end and there will be no immediate way to make money by sending them new AdSense publishers, AdWords advertisers etc.
We’re retiring AdSense Referrals
We’re constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most effective in the long term. For this reason, we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate your patience during this transition and here are some alternative options to consider:Google Affiliate Network: As part of the integration of DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting users located in the United States. Similar to the AdSense Referrals program, the Google Affiliate Network enables publishers to apply for advertiser programs and get paid based on advertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions. For further details, please visit: http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork/.AdSense for content ads: If you have less than three AdSense for content ad units on a page, you may wish to replace the referral ad units with standard AdSense for content ad units.If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Google products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referrals code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August. We encourage you to take the following steps before the product is retired:Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take a moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last week of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize your ad space.Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Create and save all reports related to the referrals program on your desktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaign information.Thank you for your support of AdSense Referrals in the past. If you have any additional questions, please visit our Help Center.Posted by Anuj Srivastava - AdSense Product Marketing
Easiest CPA Offers to Convert
Many people have a type of websites which hardly converts with affiliate networks. Such sites includes (but not limited to) wallpaper sites, celebrity gossip sites, lyrics, freebies etc. Most of these people run Adsense as their only advertising network. Then they look for other networks like ValueClickMedia and CasaleMedia to run some CPM and CPC based banners.
But such sites are not always accepted in such networks. So what are your options? Can you run affiliate programs on your website? Can they convert? Well, mostly the answer is no. The reason behind this is that, when a person is visiting such websites, he or she is not at all in a buying mood. He is just sort of having free time, which he/she is enjoying online.
But, there are few affiliate programs which is actually targeted for these type of people. They don’t ask people to buy anything. They promise to give people something free. Which people in such mindset like to opt for.
So what are such offers?
There are many offers like this being run by affiliate networks. For example NeverBlueAds offers many such offers. Here are few examples:
Nike or Adidas - $500 Shopping Gift Card Free
Free $500 Gap Gift Card
Consumer Gift Cards - $250 in Marshalls Gift Cards Free
$500 Gas Card Free
Any many more (at-least 20 more) other similar programs. What these program need is that the user submit their email address or ZIP code into the form. There is only one field in that form. So there offers are quite easy to convert and they convert on almost all types of sites. The main reason behind it is that they offer something as “free” which people surfing such sites would love in that mindset.
These offers are called “Zip Code Offers” or “Email Only Offers.” They mostly pay around $1.20 per email entered or ZIP code entered.
So go ahead and run these offers on your such websites and see how they perform. I am sure you will make some extra money to your Adsense ads, as these offers are very easy to conver. Please note that these offers are not good for website which don’t have much of US traffic. They are mostly good for US traffic only.
Celebrating 50,000 of you
This week, the 50,000th person subscribed to the English AdSense Help Group. To mark this milestone, the AdSensePro Team would like to extend a special word of thanks to all the folks who use our forums, particularly everyone who takes the time to share their knowledge with other publishers. Thank you for providing useful help and advice, and for contributing to the AdSense community.If you’re not familiar with the Help Group, do check it out to share your AdSense experience. Members of the AdSensePro team will also be on hand to help answer questions, raise issues to our product and engineering teams, and collect your valuable feedback. And if you’d prefer to discuss AdSense in a language other than English, feel free to visit one of our international forums: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Turkish.Posted by the AdSensePro Team - AdSense Help Group Support
How to Optimize Your AdSense Performance [VIDEO]
Two Australian AdSense team members, Mel Ann and Tim, have put together a good introductory guide to optimizing AdSense.
It’s not advanced but if you’re just starting out with AdSense it’s worth a watch.
Five steps to optimising your AdSense performance
“I want to improve my AdSense performance, but I don’t know how to get started!”We hear you. The myriad of optimisation tools and options AdSense offers can be a bit overwhelming. Colors, placements, channels, ad sizes — there are more options to choose from than you can poke a mouse cursor at! Ideally, we wish you could just click a button and have a fully optimised webpage published to the Internet. But until that magical day comes, we have a solution for you.The Australian AdSense team has put together a short video that takes the confusion out of optimising. The video goes through a step by step guide to optimising AdSense performance - from analysing your page type, to choosing the right ad sizes and colors, and tracking your results. We also cover our most popular tips to increase eCPM, without adversely affecting your community’s experience on your page. So if it’s been a while since you’ve refreshed your AdSense ad units, or if you’re confused on how to use channels to optimise, invest ten minutes into the video. It’s the closest thing you’ll get to that magic button.Posted by Mel Ann Chan - AdSense Australia Optimisation Team
Site maintenance on June 21 at 10am PDT
Tomorrow, our engineers will be performing site maintenance from 10am to 3pm PDT. You won’t be able to access your account during this 5-hour time frame, but ad serving and ad targeting will not be affected. In addition, your reports will continue to track your earnings as usual. We’ve converted the maintenance start time for a few cities around the world:London - 6 pm SaturdayPretoria - 7 pm SaturdayMumbai - 10:30 pm SaturdayKuala Lumpur - 1 am SundayBrisbane - 3 am SundayIn the meantime, we hope you enjoy the first weekend of summer — or winter, depending on where you are :)Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
Game on for GameScene
Back in 1995, Gary Rosenzweig published some of the world’s first web-based games. Some of his early games as well as more than 100 created by CleverMedia, the company he later founded, are available at GameScene.com.”Even in those early days, it was clear to us that web advertising was the best way to earn money from our content,” says Gary. Revenue from ads offered him creative and financial freedom to be both a game developer and publisher. But the early ad banner market was volatile and fluctuated constantly. It wasn’t until he joined the AdSense program in August 2003 that Gary was able to get consistent high-level performance from advertising.”AdSense not only performs better than banner ads, but is also much better for site visitors,” Gary notes. “The text ads and high-quality display ads used by Google were a far better experience than the pop-ups, pop-unders and interstitial ads still used today by our competitors.”At GameScene.com, CleverMedia uses 160×600 wide skyscrapers next to the games, and 300×250 medium rectangles on instructions pages. Gary encourages other publishers to test different ad formats and placements on their own sites, especially as their users grow and change. Having non-obtrusive but relevant advertising on high-traffic pages provides the revenue CleverMedia needs to keep making innovative web games.Have your own success story to share? We’d love to hear from you.Posted by Sunil Subhedar - AdSense Publisher Support
6 Ways to Make Money Using YouTube
YouTube is probably one of the most popular services online. But, how do you incorporate its use in helping you to make money online?
1. Add Premium Partners’ Videos on Your Blog or Site. If you have an Adsense account, log in and get the code for ‘video units’. You can create a YouTube Video Player and customise it according to various categories, key words, and content providers.
2. Run affiliate ads on YouTube videos. Chris on Making Money Scoop has some tips on how to do this using various tools.
3. Provide regular quality video content. Perhaps, you can become a ‘premium’ publisher and Google will split ad revenues with you.
4. Start a video blog or site that features various YouTube content. These blogs and sites can be anything from cute animal videos to craft tutorials. Then, run relevant ads and affiliate programmes on your blog or site.
5. Accept direct ads on your YouTube content. If you upload your own videos on a regular basis and you have a decent following, you might want to accept ads on your videos.
6. Enrich your sales using YouTube videos. If you sell an item on an online shop and you are able to compliment your listings with YouTube videos, then it will be useful. Also, you can link to your sales page on your YouTube. This might help bring video viewers to visit your sales page.
So, do you use YouTube at all in your online business? Can you think of other ways to use YouTube videos to help you to make money online?
Tags: advertising, affiliate, online videos, premium partners, videos, YouTube
Speaking the language of small businesses
Following our recent testimony in front of the U.S. House Small Business Committee, we revisited Washington D.C. to deliver our first seminar for small businesses on the web — specifically those in the Hispanic-American community. The Spanish-language seminar, co-sponsored by both the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the League of United Latin American Citizens, focused on making the most of AdSense and other Google tools to effectively and efficiently manage a small business online. We know a number of our publishers are Hispanic small business owners, so we’d like to share the video of the event with you (in Spanish with introductory words in English): If you’re a small business owner, we also recommend taking a look at our small business resource page, available in both Spanish and English.Posted by Carolina Shea - AdSense Publisher Support
In-Text Advertising with MediaText
Never put all your eggs in one basket. John has stated time and time again that you should look into as many different monetization methods for your blog as possible.. If you rely solely on Google AdSense, you could be leaving a fair bit of money on table. You could look into affiliate programs, sponsored reviews (like this one), and ad banners, for example.
Another way that you can make money from your blog is through in-text advertising, like the solution offered by MediaText. The concept behind MediaText is going to sound like a familiar one for those who are regular readers of John Chow dot Com.
How Does MediaText Work?
Unlike other ad networks that take up valuable real estate on your blog, MediaText is an in-text advertising solution. What this means is that you do not need to dedicate a section for ad banners or anything like that. Instead, the pre-existing content on your blog can be converted into advertising. Certain keywords in the text will become hyperlinked and the sponsored links are double-underlined in green to differentiate them from regular hyperlinks.
When a site visitor hovers his or her mouse pointer over the sponsored link, a small window pops up that displays the actual ad itself. If the visitor chooses to click on this link, the publisher (that’s you) gets paid. It is not clear whether clicks through the MediaText ad network are based on a bid system or if they are a set rate.
You might find that the mechanism and appearance of MediaText is familiar. Yes, it’s pretty much the same as one of John’s recommended moneymakers. I’ll let you figure out which one.
Qualifications and Requirements
To sign up as a publisher with MediaText, you will need to fill out a three-part application form. The first part asks for basic contact information, like your phone number and email address. The second part asks for your mailing address and preferred payment method. Payment can be arranged by cheque, bank wire, PayPal, ePassporte, and StormPay. The minimum payout level is $25, though you can set the threshold as high as $5,000 if you prefer.
The third and final section asks for your website name, URL, and description. It also asks for the number of page views you get each month. From what I can gather, there are no minimum traffic requirements. I tried to register using my fighting games blog, which gets minimal traffic, and the account was still approved within 24 hours.
Three Ways to Get Paid
MediaText boasts that it offers 3 ways to earn additional revenue. The first is the in-text advertising solution described above. The second provides a paid text link that can be inserted anywhere on your site. The formatting of this second method, called VisioMedia, is identical to the standard in-text advertising.
To implement either of these money-making strategies, you need only insert a small piece a code below the tag on your website. At default, the MediaText ads will be served throughout your content. To define where you would like the ads to appear, you can either insert code for inclusion or exclusion.
The third and final way to make money with MediaText is through their referral program. Publishers automatically earn 5% of all revenue earned by publishers that they refer to the program.
Setting Parameters, Checking Stats
The in-text advertising served by MediaText is not contextual. Instead, the ads are determined by the category you choose to describe your website. There are 15 categories in all, including automotive, education, finance, shopping, and travel. You set the initial category during the registration process, but this can be adjusted through the control panel as well. It is also here, under the “Group Tag” section, that you set the maximum number of ads per page, whether ads open in a new window, and so on.
To access stats, you use the widget located near the top of the control panel sidebar. Information is updated every hour and gives you the number of page views, ad impressions, ad clicks, ad click-thru rate, impression percentage, and revenue. It is also through this widget that you can track your referral income as well.
What Makes MediaText Different?
Realistically, MediaText is not all that different than some of the other in-text advertising solutions out there. The VisioMedia option is a nice inclusion, because it means that you can quickly and easily deploy a text ad in a sidebar or footer. Perhaps the biggest appeal to MediaText, at least for now, is that they are currently offering a lucrative introductory offer wherein you can earn a 100% revenue share for the first three months. The caveat is that you need 5 million monthly page views to qualify.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR MEDIATEXT
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