Google Launches Four New AdSense Features

By Chris Crum 

Google announced some new features for its responsive ad units in AdSense, as well as the addition of a multi-screen optimization score for the publisher scorecard.

For responsive ads, Google has added ad refresh fro screen orientation changes.

Product manager Nick Radicevic explains, “If your responsive page changes its layout following a screen orientation change (e.g., when a tablet or phone goes from portrait to landscape), we’ll request and load a new ad to fit the new page layout.”

They’ve added smart sizing based on available space, so that ad code will automatically adapt all newly created responsive ad units to fit the page layout. Existing ads that have specified width/height will remain the same.

Google has also added reporting by ad size served.

On the multi-screen optimization score, Radicevic says, “To help you understand how well your site is optimized for the many screen sizes of your users, we’re introducing a new multi-screen category in our publisher scorecard. For example, if users need to zoom and/or scroll often, this may negatively impact their experience. Your score in the multi-screen category will measure what percentage of your pages are multi-screen optimized and compare this percentage to that of other AdSense publishers. Please note that you may not see this category in your scorecard if you have a low percentage of mobile traffic on your site.”

The score will be visible in the scorecard on the AdSense homepage.

Earlier this week, Google announced the launch of custom ad sizes.

SOURCE:  webpronews.com

Create a responsive ad unit

Responsive web design allows you to dynamically control the presentation of your website according to the properties of the screen/device that it’s being viewed on. By using a responsive ad unit, you can control the size of the ads on your page, in line with how you control the layout of the rest of your page across devices. For more information on responsive design in general, see Building Smartphone-Optimized Websites on the Google Developers site.

Responsive ad units use the new asynchronous ad code. With the asynchronous ad code, you can set the size of the ad code directly via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which allows you to dynamically specify the size of the ad that will be served.

Step 1. Generate the ad code

To generate the ad code for a responsive ad unit:

• Create an ad unit in the usual way, making sure to select “Responsive ad unit (BETA)” from the Ad size drop-down in the process.
  Note that as responsive ad units only use asynchronous code, you won't see a Code type drop-down in the “Ad code” box when you get your code.

Step 2. Place the ad code on your site

Copy and paste the ad code into the HTML source code of your page where you'd like the ad to appear.

Step 3. Set the size of the responsive ad unit

Responsive ad units have no predefined size, so you need to specify the size dynamically through CSS. As this feature is still in beta, here are a few pointers to keep in mind when setting your size:

• Be sure to specify fixed pixel values when setting the width and height of the ad to be served. Make sure that the specified width and height match one of our supported ad sizes.
• The asynchronous ad code is responsive on initial page load only, subsequent changes to the ad size (e.g., after a screen orientation change) will not cause a new ad to be displayed. This is something that we’ll look to address in the future.
• Always set a default ad size in case media queries aren’t supported.
• We currently don’t provide a breakdown by size for all of the ads served by a responsive ad unit. This is also something that we’ll look to address in the future.

Examples

Basic non-responsive example

Responsive leaderboard example

Tracking the performance of responsive ad units

You can track the performance of your responsive ad units by viewing the ad sizes report on the Performance reports tab. All responsive ad unit requests are shown under the “Responsive” label in the report.

SOURCE:  google.com

Websites Where You Can Earn Money VIA Google Adsense

by Owen Walter

There are many websites out there where writers can go and make some cash VIA their GoogleAdsense accounts. Websites that allow writers to earn money VIA their Adsense accounts are usually pretty easy to use and most websites are pretty straight forward on how to integrate your Adsense account in order for you to start making some money. I have listed 8 websites that allow you to make some cash VIA your Google Adsense account.

Article Income- Article income is a website where writers can submit articles on a wide range of topics and they can earn money VIA their Google Adsense accounts. Article Income usually approves articles that are submitted to them within 24 hours or so. It is very easy to get started with Article Income.

Xomba- Writing for Xomba is very easy to do and Xomba allows writers to earn money VIA their Google Adsense accounts. Getting started with Xomba is very easy to do and writers can virtually write about anything they want to writer about.

Squidoo- Squidoo is a website where writers create WebPages on pretty much any kind of subject that they want to and they can earn money VIA their Google Adsense accounts.

Hubpages- When you publish an article on Hubpages then you are publishing a hub, and writers are allowed to display Google Ads around their hubs and earn some money VIA their Google Adsense accounts.

Bukisa- Bukisa is a website where writers can write about almost anything. Bukisa allows writers to write about health, entertainment, fashion, business and a whole lot of other subjects, and writers are able to make some cash VIA their Google Adsense accounts.

Reviewparty- Reviewparty is a website that allows writers to review DVDs/movies/TV shows, books and music, and writers are able to use their Google Adsense accounts. Writing reviews for Reviewparty is easy to do and it is easy to get started with Reviewparty.

Triond- Triond is a good website that has recently allowed its writers to integrate their Google Adsense accounts into their Triond articles. Triond allows writers to write about virtually anything. Trion usually looks over articles before they are published.

Infobarrel- Infobarrel is a website that allows you to create content on virtually anything. Infobarrel allows you to use your Google Adsense account and they will share %75 of views on your content.

SOURCE:  voices.yahoo