Affiliate Insider : google

Google's Affiliate Ads Cross the Pond

'Net Features : wm-affiliate — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:45:00 GMT

Earlier in 2012, Google launched Affiliate Ads through its Google Affiliate Network for Blogger users in the United States. The program was such a smashing success that the company has decided to ship Affiliate Ads across the Atlantic for Blogger in the...(read more)

Adsense for Search Now With Thumbnails

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:52:00 GMT

Thumbnails are a powerful way to provide users with more information about the listings returned, improving both presentation and usability. Users of Google's custom search offering now have the ability to add thumnail images on search results automatically.

Many Adsense publishers, those that use the Custom Search Element, already provide thumbnails but have done so through the use of rich snippets. With its most recent layout modification, Google has made the life of a developer a bit easier. Custom Search will now crawl websites to find representative images and add them automatically to the search results snippets.

It was relatively easy to get thumbnails to appear in Google's CSE, but developers were forced to use PageMap data in the <head> section of an HTML page or use the thumbnail meta tags. Google's crawlers have obviously gotten a lot more sophisticated over the years and this announcement is definitely proof.

Adsense Reporting Enhancements - Events and Reporting

Website Magazine : affiliates — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:30:00 GMT

Google announced two new reporting and administrative features for Adsense publishers. If you’re focused on identifying the cause of revenue fluctuations and where earnings are coming from, keep reading. The new Event History feature will show publishers...(read more)

AdSense Features to Be Thankful For

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Adsense began rolling out its new interface to all publishers last week and, in short, it is something that deserves affiliates' collection thanks.

What should we be thankful for in the new Adsense interface? Namely that Google is offering up loads of actional performance data and providing more control over the ads that appear on your websites.

- Thankful for the Data: Publishers can now run performance reports by ad type, ad size, ad unit, targeting type, and bid type for total earnings and other time metrics.

- Thankful for Graphical Reports: Adsense has been a reporting nightmare, but with new graphical report formats, impressions, clicks and earnings are available in one easy to understand graph.

- Thankful for Better Controls: The retooled ad review center and all of the ad control are place in one location. Plus, publishers can search for ads in the review center by ad type, keyword, URL or ad network and choose to allow or block them.