Scott Yang's Playground

It has been 3 and half years since I first added advertisement from Google AdSense on this website. The amount of traffic has been steady over the last 3 ½ years although I have been really slack blogging here recently. Here are some interesting statistics on monetising this blog with Google AdSense. Year Impressions Clicks [...]

Google AdSense for content is now available to 4 new languages, adding to their big list of supported languages. One being the Traditional Chinese, 繁體中文, which also happens to be my preferred language. You can already do Traditional Chinese in AdWords if you have a product to sell, but now web content providers and bloggers [...]

Around this time last year I have signed up with Google AdSense, and implemented on this website. 12 months later — yeah I have made some pocket money with it, but for me it is more of an experience in online marketing, contextual advertising and the whole Internet economics. It was fun. It was rewarding [...]

Google AdSense was down this morning, and it turned out that they have made a big mistake in paying in foreign currency. Instead of foreign amount = USD amount / exchange rate, they made it multiply instead. As most currency are lower than USD, Google has underpaid many publishers world wide except those lucky Brits, [...]

ProBlogger: Aussies AdSense publishers can now be paid by EFT, which is heaps better than paying by cheques which always took ages to deliver (and sometimes I am too lazy to deposit). To change payment to EFT, (1) Go to My Account/Account Settings in AdSense (2) Edit “Payment Details” (3) Put in your BSB and [...]

AdSense Preview Tool for Firefox. It basically just creates a pop up window showing what ads would appear on the web page you are looking at, if Google AdSense is used. Very useful for deciding whether you should put AdSense on your website. However it does not have localisation preview like the “official” preview tool, [...]

TW: Aaron Wall the “seobook” basically claimed that AdSense referral sux because there exists too many penalties for those “slow earners”. He is talking about the new $100 in 90 days recently discovered by JenSense. Personally I have never made anything through the AdSense referral (and probably never will), however I can understand why Google [...]

My first Google AdSense cheque finally arrived yesterday, since I started putting ads on this blog 4 and half months ago. More than enough to pay for my DreamHost hosting for one year. Yahoo!!! (no pun intended) Now, shall I frame it (my very first cheque from Google), or shall I cash it? Hmmm…

It has been a well known news, thanks to the power of blogosphere. PaidContent first leaked the acquisition of Weblogs Inc. by American Online, and then every second or third blogs I have been reading have reported on it. LcF blogged about this sale, concluding: Weblogs Inc. is a successful blogging network. Many of its [...]

I have been participating in Google’s AdSense program for almost two and half months now, and have earned peanuts for placing AdWords contextual ads on two of my other blogsites, i.e. I am only almost there for my first greenback cheque sent by our beloved guys in the almighty G. Well, I guess I am [...]

Last week I looked at the option of adding sponsored links via AdSense to this site. So far I am getting around 5 bucks from the clicks. Not too bad I guess, but at the same time it is far from covering my Internet bandwidth. An interesting exercise nevertheless, as it was my very first [...]

You know. Managing and providing hosting to two to three dozen websites out of your own pocket can be a costly exercise. I have been quite reluctant to do so for a while, for the fear of ‘tainting’ this blog. But I see that the dark side is greater, more powerful and more seductive, and [...]

There is an interesting discussion on Slashdot, reflecting what Bennie Smith (of Double Click) has previously said, about the end of free Internet contents when advertising blocking get included in web browsers as standard feature. I used to hate banner ads, popup/pop-under ads and even Javascript text ads that I will try to avoid if [...]

Google has just announced the AdSense for feeds, so all the webmasters can now make more money from advertising. Well, so I guess polluting your web browser is not good enough, they also want to taint your RSS reader.

Google has launched its image version of AdSense. I thought there should be no more image banner ads.