Google recently introduced Pay Per Action advertising which is going to compete with the affiliate networks on the Internet.

Being new to this feature, even I had to mail some questions to google AdWords support and got them answered. Covering some common questions, google posted on their blog about pay per action feature.

Google Adsense has been a great proven way of revenue for many webmasters. There were several things that we Adsense Optimizers did with Google Adsense Layouts on web sites and blogs. Google banned one after the other technique with which we use to attract site visitors(but not in my sites). Clients have made thousands of dollars with the things we did. One of which is placing images next to the adsense ads. Recently Google Announced a strict policy that it will ban any website for using google adsense if they place images next to the ads and in a very short span of time we switched to other methods of attracting visitors. Now i’m wondering if the google’s policy won’t apply to Google Adwords Ads placed on the Search Engine result pages. Google is doing exactly the same thing that it don’t want others to do. Now what kind of rule is this? someone explain!

Months back I read an article in USAtoday.com which is a very good explaination of what google adsense has been upto.

Since its launch in 2003, the Google Adsense program has revolutionized Web publishing, turning blogs and personal websites into potentially lucrative ventures.

It is easy to join. A Web publisher or blogger simply completes an online Adsense form. Google then places ads on the site, similar to those that appear next to search results on Google. The ads are contextually matched to content on the host site, so a blog post about having a headache might attract ads for pain-relief medicine.

Anyone with a site is eligible, and Web forums are awash in success stories of small online entrepreneurs placing ads on their sites, sitting back, and watching checks from Google roll in.

check it out here: Google’s hidden payroll

Sapiensbryan.com has released a wordpress theme which targets high CTR for ads. It can be either adsense ads or anything like adbrite too. I have seen several themes which are made keeping adsense clouds in mind. But none of them could convince me that they will get a good CTR than a general wordpress theme. But yes with this one, i’m really convinced that it will do very well for ads. Especially if you use adsense. If you need any adsense optimization, you can get in touch with me.

If you are looking for a theme that will make good money as well as spare the content overview too, I suggest you better stop looking and go with this. Very good work!

Here is a screenshot of it:

Rusty Brick talks about why Ugly Sites Earn More With Google AdSense.
It says “people land on the site, and immediately want to click off. They find the nearest ad, and most attractive part of the page, which happens to be the AdSense ad, and clicks off. Phew, they are saved and they move on to a real dating site, that is both professional looking and functional.”

Well, thats true. We come across lots of sites which are made for nothing but to display adsense and make users click on them. Some sites dont even have enough content to read but will have enough ads to click. And as we know, these ads are tempting because they are written by professionals. Well, thats a part of my job too. I mean writing and optimizing ads to make more sense or to be straight, to increase the CTR. Well, as the arguement says, these sites can be spam but users endup on high quality sites. the visitor gets what he wants, Google make money and the webmaster using adsense also makes money. To me, may be thats the way it should go! may be it can be called as an win-win situation?

The Referral system started with Google a while back. And then Google Introduced Firefox Referrals which didnt allow the feature to be used by internation users. But they finally allowed the system internationally. But the referral images were all in white color. A few days back some colour image options were introduced. Not so impressive but yes they might help some colorful blogs and sites.

But ultimately they have to make the referrals colour-free and the colour options to the users.

These are the added ones:

Darren Rowse buys a house, Rick Blythe buys a brand new car with his blogging earnings and see what Eric Giguere buys for himself. Well, Eric, same here…

Finally I can spread firefox and earn $1 everytime someone installs it by clicking on the buttons of my websites.
Been waiting for it since google has launched adsense referral system.

Here is the post from official google adsense blog:

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We’re happy to announce that international AdSense publishers can now refer users to Firefox plus Google Toolbar. A Firefox sub-tab will be visible to all publishers when they visit the “Referrals” tab in their AdSense account. For all the details on Firefox referrals, visit our FAQ.

Posted by Mohammed – AdSense Product Marketing
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Hurray!!

The uber-search engine Google has launched end of last week a new feature for the AdSense service that delivers relevant ads that are precisely targeted – on a page-by-page basis – to the content people find on your site. The new “Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up” feature allows AdSense publishers to persuade small advertisers to directly position ad campaigns on their sites.

This new service started being tested as of September and consists of adding an “Advertise on this site” link to the ads exhibited by AdSense publishers. When interested advertisers click the link, it leads to a Google-hosted page which the publisher can personalize. This page enables advertisers to sign up for a new AdWords account or insert a site-targeted ad campaign to their current account. This way, advertisers can add images and pictures to their otherwise text-only campaigns.

The main goal of this new feature is to allow sites closer contact with smaller advertisers while the production and billing processes are still taken care of by Google’s automated software.

Its new and attractive.
I have my webmaster friends already discussing about where to add banners on their sites.

I am sure this system is going to help webmasters/publishers make some income and also help google find more publishers for adsense. Very smart idea. Even though Google statrs things lately, they comeup smart and their huge user database can increase users from 1 to a million in just a weeks time.