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Good news!  The AdSense team have clarified the removal of the competitive ad policy in the terms and conditions - now AdSense ads can now be run on the same page as other contextual ad programs!  This from JenSense:

I spoke with Brian Axe, senior product manager on the Google AdSense Team on the issue. “As [...]

AdSense have again made tweaks to their Online Program Policy.  Some of these changes are good, some are going to mean a lot of extra work for existing publishers.
The Good:
Referrals - You can now have two referral links (or images) per referral product.  For a blog this means that you could have, for example, a [...]

On Jan 1st Guy Kawasaki reviewed his first year of blogging.  It’s an interesting read:

2,436,117 page views for an average of approximately 6,200/day.
262 posts generated 6,961 comments and 1,937 trackbacks. That’s 25 comments/post and 7 trackbacks/post.
21,000 people receive RSS feeds via Feedburner and 1,457 receive emails via FeedBlitz.
Total advertising revenue: approximately $3,350 = $1.39 cpm. [...]

Many people who have popular forums that they’ve tried to monetize with AdSense have probably discovered that their return is nowhere near as high as they expect, even when they do everything right.
Why?
There are two reasons why this is the case.

Forums are generally diverse and because of this it’s hard to target ads.  Poorly targeted ads convert [...]

What’s a good way to increase your earnings through Google AdSense (or any other ad program for that matter)?  Simple!  Add more sites to your digital kingdom!
This is pretty obvious but I’m constantly amazed how people don’t figure it out for themselves.  After all, one of the main things that a site needs apart from [...]

How many sets of Google AdSense ads do you have on your pages?  Most people have just the one and little do they know but this is costing them money!
Did you know that you can have up to three AdSense units on a page, two AdSense search boxes and one unit of ad links on [...]

There’s no doubt that images attract the eye, so why not use them to your advantage!
I’ve seen a number of websites that have placed a small image close to their AdSense ads to draw the visitor’s eye to the ad and  hopefully, encourage them to click on the ad.  There are a number of ways that [...]

If you have a relatively large blog or website (say, one with 100 or more pages of content) then chances are good that a some of your visitors will carry out a search while on your website for other content that’s of interest to them.  Why not leverage this to make some additional dollars?  Google AdSense [...]

Google AdSense offers you, as the publisher of their ads, about a gazillion ways to customize the color and styling of your ad (if you’re not familiar with all these customization settings, I encourage you to log in to your AdSense account and check them out).  On top of that, you have an almost infinite number of [...]

You’re starting to get clicks on your Google AdSense ads and the cents are starting to mount up to dollars - it’s now time to start tracking your statistics (from this point on, called stats).
OK, what do we mean by tracking stats?  What starts should you be keeping an eye on and what do they [...]