The Big Adsventure

The AdSense team has launched a new service: AdSense Video Units. With this new service you can place a Video Unit on your website and Google will figure out which videos would be best to show to your visitors. This is done by checking the content of your website, much like AdSense finds the right ads to show on your site based on its content. The Video Unit has targeted ads incorporated in the player.

It looks like the Video Units are only available to US publishers at this time, so I can’t try them out and give you a review. You can find out more about the new AdSense Video Units at:

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/10/introducing-video-units.html

Today I heard about a new ad project which lets you display ads from various ad networks on your website. Based on your content, type of site and demographics of your visitors, the best performing ads will be selected to be displayed on your site. The service is not available yet, but looking at the 4 minute demo video on the Rubicon Project website, I think this is a very interesting way to manage your ad space.

Looking at the team behind the Rubicon Project plus the $6 million in funding that they have secured, this has to be a winner!

It has only been a few months ago that I was struggling to reach the $100 mark in a single month. Since then my AdSense income has been growing quite fast and yesterday I’ve had my first $100 day!

Wow, it’s been nearly 2 months since I posted anything here. Time does fly when you are having fun, especially when you are making money while you are having fun.

Last years goal was to make $100 a month from AdSense by the end of the year. I already stated that I was not sure I would make it and I was right. My December earnings in AdSense was just a little short of $90 and if I add the income of other ad programs I am using the grand total for December added up to $99.97 You can’t get much closer than that, without actually making it to your target!

It was time to set a new target for this year, but what should the new target be? $200, $400, $500? I thought the $500 a month target should be achievable by the end of this year, but I was pleasantly surprised when checking my AdSense stats for January: the total for the first month of this year was a little over $500! My hard work during the low traffic days during Christmas are paying off! Another milestone was reached in January: I have passed the grand total of $1000 in total online income.

I was planning on reviewing the year after it had ended, but I just noticed the ProBlogger Group Writing Project thanks to Tim Nash (ventureskills at webdigity) So why not do a quick review of the year now and get a link from ProBlogger…

My AdSense income is probably in the millions in some odd currency just not in US$… My goal for this year was to get my AdSense income up to $100 a month and it looks like I am getting very close. This months total is at $75 so far and the month is not over yet. I’m not too sure if I will make it, since the Christmas holidays are just around the corner, I think my income will be lower over the next 2 weeks. Still I’m very satisfied on the results I got this year.

I have started quite a few new sites this year and should focus on making those grow bigger and create more income from them. I have witnessed the power of mailing lists first hand and will add them to several of my new sites. With people subscribing to your mailing list you can remind them on coming back to your site by sending them an occasional update report. Just be sure not to spam your subscribers or they will be gone before you know it!

First there was site-search, that you can add to your website, to let visitors search your site by using the Google search-engine. This great feature will save you a lot of time, writing a search function for your website.

But what if you want your visitors to be able to find information on other sites as well? Now there is Google co-op which will search all sites you have added to the search-engine. You can now create your own search-engine that is specialized on a certain topic and it will not show all the MFA sites in the results.

What’s even cooler is that you can make a little money with your own search-engine by adding your AdSense code to the result pages!

If you’ve been looking for ways to make more money with AdSense you’ve probably come across Michael Cheney’s AdSense Videos. Michael Cheney is one of the top internet marketing gurus around and after being in this business for over 10 years, he makes close to $20K a month just with AdSense!

In his AdSense Videos Michael shares his AdSense strategy and secrets with us. His videos are easy to understand and a lot more fun to watch than reading one of the many AdSense e-books out there.

The AdSense custom channels tracking has been taken to the next level, you can now add more than one custom channel to a single ad unit. With this change you can create better performance statistics for your ads. You could for instance create two custom channels to track the ads displayed in the top of your page and the ones displayed in your side menu, while this type of custom channel use has been available for a long time, you can now also add a second custom channel to your ads so you can track the difference in clicks on different ad colors you are using on the same ad blocks on your site.

Up until now you had to create a custom channel for each ad unit on each page to be able to get a detailed ad performance overview. The multiple custom channel usage lets you create overlapping groups of ads, this will eliminate the need of downloading your AdSense reports and using a different application to create your detailed stats.

Trying to get the most out of the AdSense program I’m often checking my earnings, which can take up some time. Looking for a better way I found a cool Firefox extension today that displays your AdSense earnings right in your browser window: AdSense Notifier
So whenever you’re surfing the web you can see your earnings and with a single click you will be taken to your AdSense account so you can have a look at the details.

Well my AdSense account has never realy been alive… I am making a few bucks with the ads but not nearly as much as some people claim they make.

Looking for some new AdSense tips to share here I found The Death Of AdSense, a report about why AdSense doesn’t work anymore and how to make money on the internet with other programs. The author writes about how he got from $500 a month to $50.000 a month, moving from AdSense to other programs. I have not had the time to read the full report yet but you can download the report for free and have a look.