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I am always on the hunt for excellent webinars, tutorials, conferences, and guides covering Google AdSense. Earlier this month I found an AdSense conference being held in New York in November; however, I wanted to QUICKLY inform  you about  a free AdSense Webinar that’s taking place over the next month and a half. Actually, the first class was a few hours ago and unfortunately missed. But, it’s not a complete waste becuase as it turns out, the first class that was conducted today will be available again in December.

The class that was missed today (but will be available again on Dec. 2nd) covers AdSense optimization. Specifically on optimizing AdSense for content implementation. This includes advice on proper placement, format, coverage and styling. Additional topics in the class include: How to attract placement targeting campaigns to your site, Tracking the performance of your optimizations via Channels, AdSense for Search regarding the importance of search. The next class starts on Oct. 22nd 5:00pm GMT and is called Teaching our Teachers, which provides advice on using AdSense on educational sites.

There are six more classes in addition to these first for a total of eight free classes. There is no catch. Registering and attending these classes are totally free. I am very pleased to see free Webinars available. These particular classes are online seminars conducted and moderated by Google AdSense specialists. The entire series of classes are designed to help publishers by providing tips and explaining the guidelines on monetizing sites using AdSense. Needless to say, if you have interest in getting the most from Google AdSense, I would make sure to attend each and every class.

If you’re interested in learning how to increase your AdSense earnings, then on November 5th the Content Revenue Strategies team will be available to help you get the most from AdSense, and ultimately help you increase your earnings. The event will be held in New York at the Javits Convention Center during the ad:tech New York conference. The full ad:tech conference will be from the 4th thru the 6th; however, CRS will be held on the 5th.

It’s claimed that CRS is the first and only conference and expo dedicated strictly to AdSense and contextual advertising. It’s geared for small to mid-sized publishers who want insider tips on how to maximize AdSense earnings and increase revenue opportunities. Equally, CRS caters to advertisers who want to learn more about buying advertising across Google’s network and how to maximize targeting of advertisements to get the most of out campaigns.

Early registration price is $395 and includes a full day of education for bloggers, individual publishers, social media publishers, video publishers, advertising networks, search advertisers, search engine marketing agencies, search engine marketing service providers, and search technology vendors.

Of course, if you want to attend the full ad:tech conference, the price is $1195. You’ll be kept real busy with the full schedule of events and exhibiting companies. A few that may interest you include: FaceBook, Google, and Website Magazine. At a minimum, if you’re looking to really make the most of the AdSense program and increase your earnings, then I recommend attending the CRS. It’s affordable, far enough in advanced to make plans, and you’ll be aligned with some amazing and knowledgeable people.

Yesterday Google released a new version of AdSense geared for high end mobile phones. The news of this event was broadcast across four of their official blogs, two of which completely duplicated the content. (#1, #2, #3, #4) Ironically, Google also released a new parameter handling tool which helps publishers avoid duplicate content issues. More about that coming soon. At any rate, publishers and advertisers have a brand new, high end mobile phone optimized version of AdSense to work with. And I have to say it looks great.

Google created the new version of Adsense for high-end devices because of the rising number of people using them. High-end mobile phones such as the iPhone are equipped with full HTML browsers. The iPhone for instance has special mobile version of Safari installed. Sites that utilize AdSense for high-end devices will have more control over how the ads appear to high-end device users compared to the displaying ads for all phones.

Careful consideration may need to be taking towards choosing the right device to target. Google explains that if your site is written in xhtml or html and primarily targets high-end phones, such as iPhone, then choosing the High-end Devices Only Code is ideal. However, if your site supports a wide variety of handsets then server side scripting may be required, thus choosing the All Phones option will be best.

No code changes are required to be implemented. That means if you’re targeting all mobile devices, or if you’re not able to make mass changes to your website, then you’re not required to update your AdSense code. Instead, the standard mobile version AdSense ads will appear. However, and once again, if you’re wanting to take full advantage of this enhanced version of AdSense, then making efforts towards updating your code is recommended.

I have had an interest in displaying AdSense ads to search traffic only, while keeping my entire blog free of advertisements to regular reader traffic for awhile. The only problem is that I’ve never seem to get around to doing it. Finally, I got around to doing it.

In this article, I’ll show you how to display Google AdSense ads to search traffic only. The process is much easier than I thought, and quite honestly… if I had known how simple it was to do this, I probably would have done this a long time ago.

Be sure to watch the video above. The process involves installing and activating the Who See Ads WordPress plugin. After the plugin has been activated, a few rules will need to be created, and then you’ll need to insert some HTML code into your template. From there you’re done.

As promised in the video, here is the CSS code that will help you float Google AdSense Ads the way I did in the video.

<div style=”float:left;margin-top:20px;”>
INSERT RECTANGLE / SQUARE ADSENSE AD CODE HERE
</div>

<div style=”margin-left:350px;margin-top:20px;”>
INSERT RECTANGLE / SQUARE ADSENSE AD CODE HERE
</div>

You may want to hard code the CSS code directly into your style.css. If that’s the case you can add this CSS code into your style.css

#adsense-left {
float:left;
margin-top:20px;
}

#adsense-right {
margin-top:20px;
margin-left:350px;
}

And on the single.php file you can add this HTML code:

<div id=”adsense-left”>
INSERT RECTANGLE / SQUARE ADSENSE AD CODE HERE
</div>

<div id=”adsense-right”>
INSERT RECTANGLE / SQUARE ADSENSE AD CODE HERE
</div>

I hope that this video and post helps you accomplish your goal. If you need some help, leave a comment below or contact me directly.