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While viewing Youtube videos on Youtube website, your url looks like this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkRilZdL14

Just append &fmt=18 to the url and press enter.
Now the url will become like this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJkRilZdL14&fmt=18

The video will load in high clarity, will take more time to load, but clarity will be very good.

BTW, the above link goes to pulsar mania video.

Labels: advertising, pulsar, video, youtube

Posted by bharath at 3/16/2008 02:11:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Google's smart pricing feature automatically adjusts the cost of a keyword-targeted content click. So if our data shows that a click from a content page is less likely to turn into actionable business results - such as online sales, registrations, phone calls, or newsletter signups - we reduce the price you pay for that click.

Some info about smart pricing,

• Smart pricing affects an entire account. It is not on a per page or per site basis.
  One poorly converting site can result in smart pricing impacting an entire account, even sites completely unrelated to the poorly converting one.
• Smart pricing is evaluated each week. So removing ads from sites you suspect are converting poorly could result in seeing an adjustment to a higher smart pricing percent in as little as a week.
• Smart pricing is tracked with a 30 day cookie, so you could be rewarded for new conversions that saw the initial click from your site up to 29 days earlier.
• Image ads are also affected by smart pricing.
• With smart pricing, an advertiser could end up paying less than their minimum bid, which would theoretically include the minimum bid price available, meaning publishers earn less for even the minimum valued clicks.
• Conversions for smart pricing publisher accounts are tracked by those advertisers who have opted into "AdWords Conversion Tracking"

And, here is what Google says,

1. Many factors determine the price of an ad
2. Clickthrough rate doesn't affect advertiser return on investment (ROI)
3. Google doesn't make money from 'smart pricing'
4. Remember the old chestnut: "Content is King"
This is found on Adsense blog here

Labels: adsense, advertising, adwords, smart pricing

Posted by bharath at 9/19/2007 03:32:00 AM | Permalink | Comments

Click fraud rate, that is, number of fraud clicks for every hundred clicks counted.
From this data, it is presumed that 25% of clicks are fradulent !



This data is compiled from http://clickfraudnetwork.com

Labels: adsense, advertising, click fraud, YPN

Posted by bharath at 9/19/2007 03:15:00 AM | Permalink | Comments

Here is a map showing the source of click frauds throughout the world.




“Click fraud has become the new spam and it’s clearly a problem that is getting worse, not better,” said Tom Cuthbert, president and CEO of Click Forensics, Inc. “A significant percentage of today’s click fraud traffic can be attributed to two growing areas of concern for search advertisers – traffic that comes from botnets and from parked domains or made-for-ad sites. Advertisers running campaigns on content networks are especially vulnerable as they are increasingly targets of this growing pool of savvy fraudsters.”

More @ http://clickfraudnetwork.com/

Labels: adsense, advertising, adwords, click fraud, map, world, YPN

Posted by bharath at 9/19/2007 03:07:00 AM | Permalink | Comments

Google updated their policies to allow upto 3 link units on a page , rather than the previous 1 unit.

In their policy statement, this line says,
"Up to three link units may also be placed on each page. "

This means that publishers are not limited to just a single ad unit, they now can have up to three, so you can now have a link unit in the footer as well as in the navigation.

Labels: adsense, advertising, google

Posted by bharath at 6/10/2007 02:01:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

Digg this!

This is one cool feature thats about to be implemented by Google.
In an online survey conducted by Google Adsense, they asked the publishers about their interest in using Adsense earnings as Adwords credit.
That will be beneficial for both Adsense and publishers.

The actual question sounded something like this ,
.Will you be interested to use your Adsense earning as Adwords credit?
a) Yes
b) NO
c) What is Adwords?

The answer of most Adsense publishers would be "YES".
Hope Google Adsense implements that option soon enough.

(Now, YPN supports paypal too!)

Labels: adsense, advertising, adwords, google

Posted by bharath at 6/10/2007 01:43:00 PM | Permalink | Comments

YPN (Yahoo publisher network) had announced in their blog (ypnblog.com) that they are now officailly supporting Paypal for payments made to YPN publishers.
The minimum payout threshold had been reduced to 50$ from 100$ for paypal users.
(Google Adsense still has an payout limit of 100$ and doesnt support paypal yet).

For more information, please read YPN FAQs.

Labels: adsense, advertising, yahoo, YPN

Posted by bharath at 6/10/2007 01:34:00 PM | Permalink | Comments