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(Different from "Google Ads") Google AdSense is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience.

(Different from "Google Ads") Google AdSense is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience.

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Best alternative to Adsense for a small website?

The accepted answer to this question states that Adsense functions rather poorly. What is the alternative then? My site has about 400 daily visitors, 1.5 pages/visit - so I'm too small to manually approach any sponsor for an personal ad deal. What…
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Can I have multiple AdSense accounts?

Is it possible for me to have more than one AdSense account, or would that violate Google's terms of service in some way?
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AdSense blocking by category: the numbers don't add up?

At the top level, the Finance category is shown as performing badly: Finance: impressions 8.1%, income 4.9% I go in, and I see the following sub-categories: Credit & Lending: impressions 0.9%, income 4.9% Insurance: impressions 0.2%, income…
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How can I have more clicks than page views in AdSense

One of my AdSense ad units (in the new beta interface) occasionally says that I have more clicks than page views which gives a CTR of over 100%. Does anyone know how this happens? I'm assuming it has something to do with when a page view is…
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Google AdSense setup for multiple websites with different subjects

I set up Google AdSense last year for a technology blog that I own. When registering, I had to say what the site was about, so I obviously choose technology as my website's subject. Now I have set up another website about music so need to set a…
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Google AdSense - providing access (via an additional account?) to a third party

I am working with a partner who will be handling the marketing side of things for one of my websites. He has informed me that he will require access to my AdSense account. I need to create an additional account for him, so that he can access and…
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Responsive link units in AdSense

As of now, it appears that the only way to implement Google AdSense ad units for a website built on responsive design is to use the Google responsive ad units. However, it appears that there is no responsive option available for link units. Is…
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Sharp drop in adsense revenue

My Adsense revenue for a particular site suddenly plummeted (About halved over one or two weeks). How can I find out why ?
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Prevent AdSense from warning me when my ad code appears on unauthorized sites?

On the advice of my AdSense optimization specialist, I enabled the setting in Google AdSense that prevents my ads from showing up on sites that I haven't authorized. This is evidentally important because your account can be revoked if the ads show…
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AdSense link units targeting better keywords?

I have one link unit above my navigation which targets exact keywords on what my site is about, on contrary my AdSense for content Leaderboard and Wide Skyscraper show ads that are totally opposite from my keyword, while my ctr increased for about…
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How can i distinguish revenue from different folders in Adsense?

I am currently running three websites using adsense. Since i do this more to be useful than to earn something, i have a subdomain of a free hoster and my websites live in subfolders e.q. mydomain.hoster.com/website1, mydomain.hoster.com/website2, to…
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Is it possible to find on which pages Adsense units are active?

In Google Adsense there is an ad unit that is showing as Active, even though I am sure it's not on any of my pages. I checked the ID against my entire website folder with grep and nothing came up. Under "Performance Reports" the ad unit appears to…
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Purpose of ads.txt

I run google adsense ads on my site. I don't really understand what the purpose of ads.txt is and what risks are there for me without ads.txt. Everywhere I looked there were vague descriptions of what an ad fraud was and such. I couldn't relate…
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Cancel or go a step back in Google AdSense registration?

I registered for Google AdSense about a week ago. On the page asking me for my country, I accidentally selected the wrong one. Then it asked me for my address and stuff like that in the wrongly chosen country. There was no go-back, either a "cancel…
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AdSense deductions for Invalid Traffic - How to avoid?

Every month I have a small amount taken from my AdSense payments for "Invalid Traffic". (I actually just discovered this by taking a look at my "payments" page -- which seems to be the only place this is mentioned. AdSense does not provide alerts…
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