In a sea of possibilities, how does one make a choice? Google AdSense offers many ad sizes to choose from and for a newbie, selecting those right for your website might seem like a daunting task. You need to consider not only how many, but what format and size the display ads on your website will be. The main factors to take into consideration are user experience, page layout, your audience profile, and of course your performance goals. When it comes to revenue expectations, there are certain ad sizes that are consistently bringing higher yields than others. Of course, you need to place them appropriately on the page, so that they don’t disrupt the user experience, but are still highly noticeable. Some ad sizes are preferred by advertisers, meaning a higher demand for them and therefore higher returns for the publishers. In this article, we will focus on the top 5 best performing Google AdSense banner ad sizes, as determined by Google itself. Top AdSense Banner Sizes The Medium Rectangle (300×250) This is the ad unit most popular among both publishers and advertisers. It is compact, yet noticeable (especially when placed above the fold), fits most sidebars as well as side by side to the content. It supports both text and image ads and can be used on both mobile and desktop. Because of its versatility and a large amount of inventory available, it is quite preferred by advertisers, turning it to one of the higher-paying ad sizes. One popular…
In order to earn more money from their ads, many digital publishers experiment and constantly adjusting their ad revenue strategies. In this piece, we have selected 5 great tactics to optimize your ad revenue. Experiment with different Ad networks Ad networks are businesses that collect ad supply from publishers and connect it with the demand of advertisers. It is essential that you engage with the right ad network as a publisher, in order to increase your revenue. You must ensure that your site visitors see appropriate ads. Certainly, there are numerous ad networks to pick from, but it is better if you select the one that is the best fit for you. Don’t pick an ad network based on its one-of-a-kind capabilities, instead choose an ad network that fits your website needs. Test different ad formats Experiment with different ad formats to see what works best for your site. As a matter of fact, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all solution. Ad formats that work for other websites may not work for you. So, if you want to increase your eCPM, you must do your own trials. Outstream Video Ads Video ads have made significant advances in the marketing business. Viewers are engaged in what the ad is about and the brand or company it is from.Outstream video ads are defined by Google Advertising as “mobile-only ads that display on partner sites and applications outside of YouTube,” and they can play in an app or on a page…
Prebid.js, the most popular header bidding technology, was initially launched back in 2015. According to its creators, the goal was to “make header bidding easy for publishers by bringing conformity and simplicity to the header bidding process”. Today, Prebid has become the most widely used header bidding wrapper on the web. It is an open-source technology that allows anyone to build on it, using one simple optimized foundation. It also offers the largest repository of working header bidding adapters. In this article, we’ll discover what exactly are header bidding adapters and look at a few examples. What is a Header Bidding Adapter? Header bidding adapters are a piece of code that is used to create bid requests and process these requests to a specific demand partner. Each programmatic partner that the publisher wants to include in their header bidding setup has its own adapter, which must be added to the wrapper. The adapter carries the bid request along with information about the ad size, type, and format. The most popular header bidding adapter is non-surprisingly that of the most popular header bidding wrapper – Prebid.js. Prebid is a free open-source header bidding technology, which has the largest repository of working adapters, supporting over 300 demand partners and 50 analytics providers. There can sometimes be compatibility issues between different adapters in one container, in which case the adapters could be adjusted by either the buyer or the wrapper management party. Types of adapters Prebid offers two types of adapters for publishers:…
Header bidding has become the buzzword of the last few years and its widespread adoption by the ad tech world means there’s a reason for that. It maximizes demand competition for every ad impression and boosts revenues. Soon after header bidding’s rise, Google introduced Exchange Bidding, or EBDA (Exchange Bidding in Dynamic Allocation). It was meant as an alternative to header bidding that required much less publisher involvement. Today, Google’s product is known as Open Bidding. In this article, we’ll take a look at both header bidding and Open Bidding, how they compare to each other, and how publishers can decide which one to use. What is Header Bidding? A technology that allows multiple ad exchanges to simultaneously bid on the publisher’s ad inventory before a call to the ad server. It can be implemented client-side (i.e. browser-side), and/or server-side. Both ways have their pros and cons, but the main goal is to reach a larger number of demand sources than with the traditional waterfall method and hold the auctions in a transparent and efficient way. Today, publishers can choose from multiple header bidding demand partners and use open-source, proprietary, or managed wrappers to streamline the process. Chances are, if you’re monetizing your website, you are using header bidding or considering it. Naturally, with header bidding’s adoption getting wider and wider, Google had to offer its own version. Enter Exchange Bidding in Dynamic Allocation (EBDA). Now known as Open Bidding. What is Open Bidding? Open bidding is Google’s server-to-server technology…
If you are monetizing your website with Google Adsense, either as a main method or as a backfill, you need to comply with Google’s policies in order to stay in the game. Familiarizing yourself with the rules and guidelines of the technological giant is one way to approach the matter. Another useful practice is to check if you are committing any of the most common violations. This will help you fix any unintentional mistakes and prevent you from getting banned for serious offenses. So let’s take a look at some of the most common Google AdSense violations. Clicking on ads on your website. Asking or paying others to do so. This simply isn’t fair play. If you were the advertiser, you wouldn’t want to pay for clicks by users who aren’t genuinely interested in your product or service. Therefore, you must not click on ads on your own website or try to “artificially inflate the impressions or clicks the ads receive, either through automated or manual means.”* This includes a ban for any activity that incentivizes users to refresh and/or click on ads, such as offering rewards, asking users to support your website by interacting with the ads on your site or using a third-party service that generates clicks or impressions. Don’t ask your friends or family to do it either, as any repeated clicks are considered a violation as well and may cause you more harm than good. Note that you (or your testers) are not supposed to test…