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Now, as we reported earlier in this CB ads post , ClickBank has come up with the new way to earn more money. You can now create keyword-specific CB ads and display them on your blog through HTML/JS code. The new feature added is called Hop Ad Builder. Here's what you do. 1. Go to ClickBank, and sign in. 2. Click Account settings and then click Hop Ad Builder, the new item added. 3. You will find two options, two choices, Text Ad Builder or Tabbed Ad Builder. I recommend you use the second, as it can be better monetized. The former option looks just like Google Ads and may get lower CTR altogether. 4. Research the most appropriate keywords and use them to automate the ad creation process. Customize the ad box looks and get the JS code to add to your website. That's it. You got the new CB ad code, which will update itself according to the keywords and settings you have chosen and display them. Look at my sidebar, which has a similar tabbed ad system.

Here is a video series that teaches you how you can serve third party ads, directly from Google Channel, YouTube. 1. Third Party Ad Serving Basics Part A: 2. Third Party Ad Serving Basics Part B: 3. Third Party Ad Serving Basics Part C:

If you visit earnings forums, such as the DigitalPoint , you may find that several people post reports of their earnings on Google Adsense or other such ad networks. Several of these reports (screenshots) are faked for the purpose of generating more interest in their blogs or their profiles. Let's analyze this twisted psychology in this post. In some forum threads, you may find that a guy posts a screenshot of Adsense, such as this one below, with far greater earnings than they have ever got (click to enlarge screenshot). One reason to do this is to show off to other people in the forum that he is a master of Adsense and it is worth their while to check out his blog/website. With this sham, they can also attract more advertisers to the blog and command higher ad rates. Another reason can be his petty ego toward people earning more than him. Whatever it is, he can be successful in tricking quite a lot of the forum users, who respond with kudos in the thread. How to Fake a Screenshot...

Recently, Google announced the launch of Interest-based advertising, a form of advertising in which visitor's "previous interaction" with the advertisers is counted to display ads to them. Google groups users into categories based on their interests. In connection with that, however, you need to update your privacy policy on your blog for Adsense by April 10th. If you wish to view ads based on your interests, you can set your preferences here . The advantage it has to bloggers and publishers is that the ads will be more user-friendly from now on. There is a chance for better click through rates. However, you are expected to update your Adsense privacy policy on all your sites before the tenth of next month. If you don't know what this means, you may perhaps want to read my complete Adsense policy guidelines post . In order to modify the privacy policy of your blog, please find the necessary information here . Please write to us what you think of this new form of ads.

Pluck on Demand is a service used to add contextually relevant content from external sites to your site, similar to but newer than BlogBurst. I still remember reading about it in TechCrunch . You can see my comment right in that article (look for Lenin Nair). Well, the latest news from Kontera may interest you. It is partnering with Pluck to provide contextual content ads in the Pluck widget. This is definitely a good step toward maximizing Kontera revenue. Though Kontera lost my love as a potential money-maker due to reasons including lower number of advertisers, publishers, and extremely low commission rates, partnership with Pluck may make it more lovable to people. Also due to the TechCrunch's calling Pluck as a way of adding free content legally, it may pretty much create a moneymaking blog with virtually no work at all. But the money will still remain lukewarm. If you decide to check out both, please let us know how they are doing together through comments here.

On Thursday, Google announced that it will be including expandable ads in its Adsense group. Google says the ads will be created by "Google-certified rich media vendors for the top display advertisers in [its] network". Maintaining the current CPC and CPM rates, the ads can be customized to include rich media video (usually real media). Sad thing is that the expandable ads will be made available currently only to the US publishers. More on Google Adsense blog .