Explanations for questions 1 to 9 is available here.

If you own a self hosted blog, then you have to read it and be informed!

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Google Webmaster Quiz answer key is out!

But what exactly is this?

With this new change, participating ad networks can also bid in our auction to appear on AdSense sites. This new capability will help you generate the most profit for every ad that appears on your site, whether the ads come from AdWords advertisers or Google-certified ad networks.

Google certified ad networks in AdSense

This AdSense feature will initially be available to publishers in North America and Europe, but they said they will make it available for all publishers in the future. So I guess I’ll just wait for it to roll out here in the Philippines.

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AdSense allows multiple Google-certified ad networks

These techniques were presented by Mel Ann and Tim, 2 of AdSense Optimization Specialists from the Google office in Sydney, who work with publishers to help them improve the performance of their ads.

5 Steps to Increase your AdSense Revenue

The presentation below will walk you through a 5-step process to optimize the AdSense ads on your sites, and will also share tips that many publishers have found successful.

Step 1: Analyze your webpages

Step 2: Set up custom channels

Step 3: Optimize your ad unit design and placement

Step 4: Maximize revenue from multiple units

Step 5: Track and measure results

In relation to the topic, Paolo of Phawville.com interviewed me by email and I’ve shared some AdSense tips that worked for me. You can check out the interview here.

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AdSense optimization techniques to increase your revenue

Randy Marasigan dot com is now PR 4 from PR 3 and my News Blog (Daily Contributor) also got the same PR rank now. That’s good news right? Maybe.

Bloggers want a high PR, because high PR will give you a slight advantage over other bloggers with lower PR when it comes to SERP (Search Enging Result Page) ranking.

What is bothering me right now is that this blog is not ranking in Google SERP anymore. When you search for my name on Google, the first result should be of course (Randy Marasigan dot com) but as of now the first result is my twitter account page followed by the page 2 of this blog which is weird.

Here’s a screenshot:

I’m not sure what’s happening right now. All I know is that my older post is also loosing on the SERP department. I want them back! I need them back!

Maybe it’s just a google dance? I certainly hope so, because if it’s not, what’s the use of PR anyway?

UPDATE:

SERP page ranks are coming back. I think.

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PageRank update and SERP