Why do the terms of service prohibit AdSense publishers from sharing any of our account data, specifically click-thru rate (CTR) and per-ad value (eCPM)? I can sort of understand discouraging the wide dissemination of gross revenue, but even that seems...

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Just browsing your site and I noticed that some of your Google AdSense ad blocks have a link on the bottom that I haven't seen before, "See More Ads by Google". What the heck? Is this something that you want...

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As a faithful reader of your AskDaveTaylor blog, I noticed a few days ago that you have added a new graphical element on the sidebar, one that features a variety of different products for sale and is animated. Cool. What...

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I have a google adwords campaign. When I look at my keywords in each adgroup, they all say active, yet most of them carry zeros in every other column. When I do a search my ad is not appearing and...

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I've been having a hard time getting the Google AdSense engine to properly target its advertisements to the content on my pages, and have been digging around for solutions. I came across a few cryptic references to "google_hints" as an...

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Hey Dave, I've been told that Google doesn't like squeeze pages any more and that that is why my clicks now cost about 100 times more than they used to. What gives? How do I get my cheap clicks back?...

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Dear Dave, can i change the format of my Adsense layout? I went to Digg.com and I kinda like the layout of their adsense that they had (at the top). If so, how would I do that on my Moviebuff...

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Dave, I'm freaking out! I was just looking at one of the pages on my website and saw an interesting ad placed by the Google AdSense program and clicked on it without thinking. Oh man! I don't want to get...

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I purchase Adwords on Google and when I look for myself I often don't appear. Google says I have set my cap at $30 and I have used up most of that by the time I check it out. Is...

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In light of Yahoo's move to ban trademark bidding, how long before Google follows suit? And how will Google's "quality score" component impact that decision?...

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I'm thinking about using Google AdWords, but I have the following question. When someone Googles the name of my business my link come up as the top search result. If an ad for my site is also displayed, and someone...

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