Google Adsense Conducting Ad Experiments on Your Sites Without Your Knowledge
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Adsense Revenue Down? This May Be Why: Adsense Experimenting on Your Site without Your Knowledge

Adsense revenue down? Google may be conducting Adsense experiments on your site without your knowledge. It’s enough to have you look for Adsense alternatives and close your Adsense account! Imagine our shock at finding that Google was experimenting on our site by placing experimental Adsense ads on our site without our knowledge or, as far as we can tell, permission.

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How to Find Your 1099 from Google

If you are wondering “Where is my Google 1099”, well, you’re not alone in being unable to find your Google 1099. You probably got the same email from Google saying that “You can now find your 1099 for the tax year 2021 online” that has lots of people confused about where to find their Google Adsense 1099 form, because the link in the email from Google doesn’t go to the Google 1099! It goes to your account settings, not your Google 1099!

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What to Do When Adsense Says You Have a Policy Violation for a Non-Existent Page?

What to do when Google Adsense says you have a policy violation notification for a page that’s been deleted or doesn’t exist? Here’s what.

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Got the “Earnings at risk – You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue” Warning? This May be Why

Did you get the “Earnings at risk – You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue” pink stripe of death in your Adsense account (or do you want to know how to remove a domain or site from Adsense)? Read on.

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How to Stop and Get Rid of Adsense Auto Ads and Get Your Old Adsense Ads Back

If you run any sort of website at all, it’s likely that you have at least dabbled with Adsense. And if so, you may also have decided to give Adsense Auto Ads a try. And if you did try Adsense Auto Ads it may be that you regret it, and want to get rid of the damned things. Which turns out to be easier said than done. Here’s how to stop Adsense Auto Ads and get rid of them for good.

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Explained: What is “Web caches and other” on an Adsense Report?

If you’re reading this article, the odds are that you are a Google Adsense publisher, and you’ve seen a line item on your Adsense report reading “Web caches and other” and are wondering just what the hell it means. So, here’s what that “Web caches and others” refers to.

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Google Facilitating Link Farms with Own Adsense Ads

If you have been on any website that has Adsense ads by Google on it (including this one), you may have noticed that Google is running its own ads for Gmail for Work and Gmail for Business. The ads show small businesses with cute domains, such as “gizmocam.com” and “puppyscrubber.com”. Shockingly, apparently nobody at Google thought to feature only domains registered to them; leading to a windfall for scammers who snapped up the domains and put ad links on them (these sorts of sites are known as ‘link farms’ or ‘linkfarms’).

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How to Edit, Influence and Even Control What Ads Google Shows You

At this point in your Internet life, it should hopefully come as no great shock that Google watches just about everything you do on the Internet, and one way that they do that is with the cookies that they’ve planted in your browser (in fact if you use both Google and Facebook, it’s a good bet that very little that you do online isn’t being tracked by one or the other, if not both). This includes a tracking cookie that Google has ‘helpfully’ given you for Google ads (that advertising by Google that is known as Adsense to website visitors and publishers, and Adwords to the advertisers who advertise in those ads by Google). based on what they perceive to be your preferences. Interestingly, Google also gives you a way to modify the information in that cookie, so that Google can show you more advertising that you ‘want’ (for some value of want).

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Slashdot Adds Ads to its RSS Feeds

Imagine our surprise today when, while checking out Slashdot’s RSS feeds (or, as those in the biz like to call it, /. ) we noted a full-colour advertisement exhorting us to check our credit score, and another for Tek Systems. In fact, there is now an advertisement along with every story summary in the Slashdot RSS feed – ads for penny stocks, even ads for Google Chrome.