A publisher can be up and running with AuctionAds within 5 minutes which means they are making money in 5 minutes. Each time a user clicks on AuctionAds and then completes an action on eBay, the publisher makes money. The publisher makes money even when the user just signs up for a new account on eBay. They also make money when a user places a winning bid. Publishers can also make money with the AuctionAds Affiliate program. Within every ad displayed, a publishers affiliate code is automatically included where it says “Ads By AuctionAds”. The publisher receives 2% of any affiliate refered to AuctionAds.

There had to be a universal expectation that Google would ultimately allow users to monetize PageCreator pages withAdSense. But let's face it, Page Creator is a novelty act rather than a serious site building application. There are hints that its ultimate goal is to provide a front end on GDrive storage facilities (the same product manager works with both projects). Nonetheless, if you've built stuff on googlepages.com, now you can monetize it.

AdSense Arbitrage (also known as click arbitrage) is used by some folks who are claiming large monthly paychecks from AdSense. Lately there's been a lot of bloggers wondering whether the Made-for-AdSense industry is beginning to hurt Google's broader advertising programs. The brainiacs at the Googleplex appear to be paying attention and have responded to those concerns.

For those looking for AdSense-optimized designs who don't have the cash to consider Comm's product, there are a number of free templates circulating. SapiensBryan has released two versions of a theme called "Ads Minded" for Wordpress, a standard fixed-width design and a wider version. These themes feature pre-configured spots for your AdSense ads, including a featured 250x250 square at upper right and a 120x600 skyscraper. A novel twist is the top "navigation bar," which is actually a horizontal AdSense ad link unit. Once the theme is installed in Wordpress, you need to go into the templates and swap in your AdSense code for the placeholders (which are images in a couple instances) to get things going.

The sites that participate may be taking a big chance with their PageRank and Google listings. That's one more reason not to like PayPerPost, apart from the many objections outlined by others.

So how much will Digg 3.0 be making on ad revenue? It's speculative math, to be sure, but let's take a whack at it. The CPM (cost per thousand displays) rates for Digg's new design are $16 for 728x90 leaderboards, $14 for 120x600 skyscraper positions, and $9 for 125x125 blocks. The 125x125 slots often seem to be filled by Google AdSense ads, which will probably monetize at a slightly lower rate than $9 per thousand displays - but not much lower, given Digg's tech-related topics. So let's say $6 CPM for the 125x125 spots.

That works out to $36 per 1,000 page views for pages with all three ad positions. Here's what that works out to based on the percentage of those 5 million monthly page view bearing ads:

100 percent: $720,000 a month

80 percent: $576,000 a month

50 percent: $360,000 a month

Keep in mind that this doesn't include the $800 a week for text ads on comment pages, since the Federated Media profile doesn't provide enough information to make a reasonable guesstimate. So at current traffic levels, the top end could be reasonably estimated at a little north of $800K a month, which works out to $9.6 million a year.

That assumes the existing 5 million unique users, of course. Based on the number of diggs on stories today, it appears the redesign and expansion has attracted a surge in traffic. The additional categories will bring more users, which means that these guesstimates - to the extent that they're even close to real-world numbers - may represent the floor, rather than the ceiling. Of course, it all depends on how many ads Federated is selling, and whether the demand can fill those additional page views and ... sorry. My head will explode if I speculate any more. Anybody else got better math? If so, let's see it.

The Digg-obsessed Jason Calcanis, head honcho of AOL's new Netscape, takes note of the shift to three ads above the fold in the new Digg, as well as the fact that the home page and subject indices stick to a single 728x90. "Smart move... go light on top level ads, make it back on the second level," Jason writes. "We're doing something similar (this is the Google School of Design btw)."

The short-term impact: a brief scare for AdSense publishers who check their earnings compulsively. "It was certainly odd today to see '0 - $0.00' on my Firefox windows," noted Eric Giguere (who uses the Firefox AdSense Notifier plugin, which is a great tool).

A. I was looking for a way to monetize some of my websites. AdSense is such an easy thing to get started with the eye for it would be a great way to start earning more money without actually putting into much more effort. I think as soon as you see the first earnings coming into your account you get addicted to AdSense. I know it's what happened to me, and since then I've just spent time working out how to earn more and more each day.

Q. How much do you make with AdSense?

A. Some days I can earn close to $1,000 and others it's less than that. But it all comes down to how much time and effort you devote to creating a quality site that people like visiting. AdSense is not what my business is based on by any means - but it is a great way to earn revenue almost on autopilot.

Q. What is the biggest mistake people making with AdSense?

A. Probably the biggest mistake people make is thinking the AdSense earnings are easy to achieve. It is very easy to get started but as I learned it takes a lot of effort to increase your earnings. I got really downhearted whenever I would log in to my account to see that I had only made a few dollars. And that's when I decided to spend months and months of my time learning everything I could about AdSense.

I basically buried myself away and devoured every single piece of AdSense information I could find. I ran thousands of AdSense tests and started to see a dramatic effect on my click through ratio and therefore on my earnings.

This is why I'd decided to record the videos - because I knew that it would help people who were in my position to also increase their earnings. I've read an absolute ton of AdSense e-book's but they take so long to go through and always seem to keep information back.

With AdSense Videos I knew that I had to tell the story exactly as it is and actually show people and lead them by the hand through the exact techniques that I use to generate large earnings from AdSense.

Tonight Commission Junction informed affiliates that it was delaying the expiration of HTML links. While the new Javascript system will become available June 23 as planned, pre-existing HTML links on affiliate sites will continue working into at least early 2007.

It really, really surprised me how many days I?d look at the stats and see clickthrus from Adsense ads on pages here at the Blog Herald that are so old I don?t even remember writing them! And sometimes the CTR is higher on these pages as well. Perhaps the Adsense ad was more relevant that the 2 year old content? who knows!

Check out Duncan's findings, and see how they compare with your experience.

But I think Google�s initial use of a payment system is to add a pay-per-sale model to their current pay-per-click advertising network. Merchants using AdWords to advertise and Google Wallet to process their sales will be able to track which ads lead directly to sales and at what cost. Merchants will be able to tap into the power of large scale affiliate marketing (ala Commission Junction). Publishers can then choose between which model to promote - AdSense for clicks or AdSense for sales.

Google has now posted a page of tips to help optimize AdSense, featuring a visual "heatmap" highlighting the ad placements with the best click-through rates. Newspapers have long used heatmap technology to analyze their layouts, using "eyetracking" technology to learn which design features draw readers' attention, and which parts of a particular news page are read first (the Poynter Institute has summarized many of these findings for news web sites in its Eyetrack 2004 research). Now Google is offering similar information to AdSense publishers.