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Agenda 1. Why Indic Matters? 2. Intro to AdSense ○ What, Why & How? 3. IndiBlogger Intro BREAK 4. AdSense Monetization Best Practices
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Why Indic matters - Huge untapped opportunity !
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India is one of the most exciting Internet market in the world 140 Cr
Total Population
130 Cr
Internet Users
72 Cr 40 Cr+
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32 Cr
28 Cr
26 Cr
13 Cr
21 Cr
14 Cr
And at the same time equally challenging... 22 Official Languages 122 Major Languages 1599 Other Languages
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However, this challenge also presents a massive opportunity! 53 Cr Indian Language Internet Users English Internet Users
23 Cr 19.9 Cr
17.5 Cr
2016 Source: Indian Languages - Defining India’s Internet (KPMG Google Report 2017) Google Confidential and Proprietary
2021
However, there is acute content scarcity for Indic
< 0.1%
Of all web is in local languages
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Digital Advertising
₹10,000cr
Expected spend on Local Language Online Ads by 2021
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Today we are here to talk about a recent launch
now supports
80K+ AdSense publishers from India Come join them! Google Confidential and Proprietary
Meet a AdSense Real Life Hero! “Thanks to Google AdSense, I quit my 9-to-5 corporate job and pursued my passion for writing. Google’s tools helped me scale my business quickly, without being too complex or technical.” Gopal Mishra Founder, AcchiKhabar.com Winner of Indian Blogger Awards 2017 (Hindi Category) Google Confidential and Proprietary
Understanding The AdSense Opportunity Ajay Luther
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4 Sections.
#1
Using AdSense to monetize
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Beginner
#3 Confidential and Proprietary
Thinking Multiscreen
Intermediate
Get Started with AdSense
Beginner
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Maximizing Your Revenue
Advanced
Users
User is drawn by interesting and useful publisher content Direct
Publisher monetize the content via ads
Agency
$ Advertisers
Publishers
Online Partnership Group manages and supports content creation ecosystem to optimally monetize their properties with ads
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How big is this eco-system ?
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people have chosen AdSense.
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So, publishers can make money ?
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9,8 6 0,9 0 8,4 5 9 In 2015, we paid out nearly $10B to our customers. That’s the power of AdSense.
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How Do I Actually Sign Up To AdSense ?
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Please make sure we can contact you!
Very Important
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Why AdSense?
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A top-rated display network
Google rated the highest quality advertising network*
Source: Pixalate Seller Trust Index (4 of the 5 months studied)
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A commitment to quality
12 years development Engineering strong safety signals and filters
20% publisher acceptance rate We look for policy-compliant publishers with great original content Confidential and Proprietary
Your space is in demand
Advertisers constantly bid for ad space.
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You control the looks YOU CONTROL THE LOOK
You call the shots on the ads that appear.
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AdSense for Video
Video Advertisement (0:04): Chrome: For whatever you unwrap
For Peace and Harmony
Earn money from your web-based video content Video Standard and TrueView (appears pre, mid, and post-roll) Overlay A text, image, or rich media creative (appears on bottom third of video)
Overlay Advertisement (0:21): Chrome: For whatever you unwrap
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Full-slot Advertisement will close automatically in 0:06 What is Chrome by Google? (aside from a really fast browser) 0:32/0:53
Full-slot A text, image, or rich media creative (appears pre, mid, and post-roll) Users need to close the ad before continuing to the video content, next video, etc. 0:02/0:06 Confidential and Proprietary
AdSense for Search A Custom Search Engine on your site • Choose the content your users search • Customize the look and feel • Earn money from search results with targeted ads
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AdSense for Search
Google Custom Search
How AdSense Works
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Select the type of ad you want on your site. Ad types include text, display, or a mix of the two.
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Choose where you want ads to appear. Copy and paste a piece of code on your site where you want to show ads.
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Watch the highest paying ads go live. Advertisers bid for your ad space in a real-time auction.
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Leave the money stuff to us. We’ll handle the process of billing advertisers and networks. When ads are seen or clicked, you’ll automatically earn money.
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SAMPLE CALCULATIONS Back of the envelop,
Revenue =
How many page views does my site get?
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How many ad placements per page?
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What are the chances of a user clicking that ad?
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How much will I get per click?
Hypothetically assuming, Revenue
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300,000 pages viewed/month
Revenue
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$150 / month
2 ad units/page
0.25% chances of click
$0.10 is what I get per click
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#2 Get Started With AdSense ●
Policy compliance
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Signing up
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Ad Best Practices to maximize revenue
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But wait, before you sign up... Mobile friendly
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#1
AdSense policy in action
Think like a user ● ●
Provide content that’s useful, interesting and adds value Make it easy for them to find what they’re looking for
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AdSense policy in action
Keep it family-safe and legal ● ●
Review and understand the prohibited content guidelines If you wouldn’t want a child or grandparent seeing it, it shouldn’t be on your site
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AdSense policy in action
Avoid deceptive layouts ● ●
Don’t place ads near images to enable accidental clicks Keep ads away from games, slideshows, and other click-heavy content
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AdSense policy in action
Maximize content, not ads per page ● ●
Create new, relevant, interesting content Update regularly
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AdSense policy in action
Don’t click on your own ads ● ●
Don’t click your own ads, or ask others to click them Your clicks will not count toward revenue and may get you flagged
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Common reasons for policy warnings
Copyrighted material If the content isn’t yours or you don’t have permission to use it, you can’t monetize it.
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Common reasons for policy warnings
Sexual content ● ●
Sexually explicit content Content that is sexually suggestive without being explicit, such as sheer lingerie
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Common reasons for policy warnings
Violent content Includes bloodshed, fight scenes, and gruesome or freak accidents
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Common reasons for policy warnings
Explicit text Text descriptions including erotic stories, jokes, or discussions, or excessive use of profanity
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Common reasons for policy warnings
Unnatural attention Visuals or placement that call too much attention to ads, such as flashing arrows
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Policy support
Have a question about an AdSense Policy?
The AdSense Help Forum
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The AdSense help center
AdSense Policy FAQs
The Inside AdSense Blog
Getting Started with AdSense Mobile friendly Go to the AdSense website... ●
Apply for a new account, making sure your site is compliant and not Under Construction
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48 hour review before ads show
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Once approved, ads will show
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#3 Think Multiscreen ●
Make it mobile friendly
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Make it simple
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Make it fast
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Building for today’s users
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Mobile First - Best Practices
74% Make it easy for your Users
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Make it Fast
Make it Consistent
of people say they are more likely to return to a site that is mobile friendly
Source: Google Mobile Ads Blog 2012
Make it easy for your users
61% Will leave a mobile site if they don’t see what they are looking for right away
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Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
Ease of use
Touch friendly
Font size Source: Google Mobile Ads Blog 2012
Mobile-friendly sites Priority 1
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Priority 2
Desktop only sites
testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com/
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Make it fast
1/3 say speed is the most important factor when using the mobile web
74% of people will abandon a mobile website that takes more than 5 seconds to load
Source: Google Mobile Ads Blog 2012
Additional multi-screen resources We will share all of these via email
Building your site
Optimizing your site
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I use a CMS
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I want to hire someone to do it for me
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I want to build it myself
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Web Fundamentals step-by-step guides
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SEO Starter Guide
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Think/Multi-Screen website
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Multi-Screen Guidelines one-stop shop for your multi-screen needs
www.google.com/think/multiscreen
Must have for Web Developers ●
NEW Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
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NEW Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
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PageSpeed Insights
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Mobile Web UX Best Practices (article, whitepaper).
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Mobile-friendly test and see how your site does
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Device mode brings the insights of mobile testing to your browser tab
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#4 Maximising your Revenue
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SUGGESTION
SUGGESTION
Ad Sizes ONLY use the following IAB standard ad sizes:
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336 x 280
Large Rectangle
300 x 250
Medium Rectangle
970 x 90
Large Leaderboard
728 x 90
Leaderboard
468 x 60
Banner
160 x 600
Wide Skyscraper
120 x 600
Skyscraper
320 x 100
Large Mobile Banner
320 x 50
Mobile Banner
300 x 600
Large Skyscraper
SUGGESTION
Frequency On Desktop ● Have 2-3 ad units per page
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SUGGESTION
Improve ad placements Viewability (visibility) of an ad is important. Viewability must be > 50%, preferably 70%+. ●
Above the fold
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Below the navigation menu
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Close to the most viewed content on your page*
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*Don’t place ads next to action buttons, as may lead to policy violations.
SUGGESTION
Allow more advertisers to compete ●
Allow Text & Image ads
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Limit blocked categories
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Limit blocked ad networks
If you have specific ads you don’t want to show on your page, use Ad Review Center to block the specific ad, and not the entire category.
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AdSense native offering A new family of native products for publishers who want a faster and more efficient way to create and implement native ads across their mobile, tablet and desktop websites.
“By 2021, native display ad revenue in the US, which includes native in-feed ads on publisher properties and social platforms, will make up 74% of total US display ad revenue, up from a 56% share in 2016” - Business Insider Confidential and Proprietary
“Growth of native digital display is being driven by publishers’ pursuit of higher-value and more mobile-friendly inventory, as well as by advertisers’ demands for more engaging, less intrusive ads,” - eMarketer
Native formats are designed for optimal user experience Publishers can use native ads based on user behavior on the page and use more than one of these formats in appropriate placements (following current policy rules on content to ad ratio)
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Browsing - User looks at grids, blocks of content, news feeds or listings (retail, jobs etc.)
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Reading - User looks at long (2 -3 paragraphs) articles; where there are natural breaks in reading flow
Product- in-Article Native
3 Continued Engagement /discovery - The end of the article where the user decides to stay or leave the page
Product - Matched content
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In-article
Matched content
In-feed Native Why should publishers consider in-feed native: 1.
2. 3. 4.
Creates an incremental revenue opportunity by adding additional avenues for revenue Unobtrusive to the user experience Easy to implement and create Highly customizable
In-feed
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In-Article Native Why should publishers consider in-article native: 1.
Creates an incremental revenue opportunity by adding additional avenues for revenue
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Assisted Ad Creation Flow: Simple and guided configuration, no manual code editing required
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Optimized by Google to ensure that they perform well on your article pages
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Additional opportunity to monetize your longer form content
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In-Article
Matched Content
With Matched content, publishers can
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Earn revenue through natively styled ads
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Improve reader retention by increasing pageviews and time spent on site
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Additional revenue from incremental pageviews
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Cross domain promotion, whitelisting and blacklisting of pages available on request
Do not replace high performing banner ads with AdSense native ads
Publishers should create new AdSense native ads and add them as incremental ad units on the page ● This helps ensure best eCPM performance
What are AdSense Auto ads? How do they work?
AdSense Auto ads are a simple, innovative way for publishers to automatically monetize their pages with just a single piece of ad code.
Auto ads uses Google’s machine learning technology to identify placement opportunities Publishers add the code once and make all the changes in the UI. Machine learning
Detect page structure and identify potential new ad placements
Detect existing Google ads on page
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Place new ads based on existing manual ads, ad density limits and format performance
2. Why should publishers try Auto ads?
Auto ads help publishers to move towards a more dynamic and scalable ads experience Today
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Publishers need to use different tags for different sizes, formats, placements and pages Publishers spend a lot of time optimizing ads on their pages to maximize revenue
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Future
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One tag solution (simple and customizable within UI)
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Optimization done by Google to keep the user experience and revenue high
Auto Ads
With AdSense Auto ads publishers can focus on content and leave monetization/optimization to AdSense AdSense Auto ads provide three major benefits:
1. Ease of use
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2. Incremental revenue
3. Customization options with more formats and control
Auto ads are easy to set up and allow publishers to customize their settings within their AdSense account
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Publishers tag their site only once and they don’t need to paste their code again.
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They can customize their settings in their AdSense account at any time without making changes to the ad code.
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Auto ads can bring incremental revenue, maintaining a good user experience
According to beta results, Auto ads provides revenue uplift. ●
Auto ads work well on their own and/or with manually placed ads and publishers don’t have to choose between them.
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For each page, AdSense will choose the placement and the right format for each placement, maintaining good user experience.
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Average revenue uplift depends on how well the page is currently monetized.
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Multiple ad formats are available for publishers to try within Auto ads Publishers can choose among multiple different formats including: ● ● ● ● ● ●
Text and display ads In-article ads In-feed ads (Mobile only) Matched content (Mobile only) Anchor ads (Mobile only) Vignettes ads (Mobile only)
Read more about these here.
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Publishers can show different ad formats on different pages of their site using URL Groups
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Set specific settings at page/url level using URL groups (e.g. only In-article ads on homepage)
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Disable Auto ads on specific pages (e.g. homepage)
Read more about these here.
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Auto ads are especially recommended for AdSense publishers who are under-monetizing their sites
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Publishers who hardcode AdSense or use DFP to manage all their ads
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Publishers who don’t already have too many ads on some or all of their pages
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Publishers who are struggling with monetization
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Publishers with floating menus may not be a good fit for Auto Ads, since it may break the layout of the page
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Sites that use an inflexible layout may not be a good fit for Auto ads (e.g some table-based layouts or pages that rely on css absolute positioning)
3. How to implement Auto ads
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If you are already using Anchor/Vignette ads (previously known as Page-level ads) We have automatically migrated your settings to Auto ads. ●
Use the toggle buttons from within your Adsense account to try new formats
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After you've pasted the ad code, you can still make changes to your Auto Ads settings at any time without having to change the ad code.
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If you are new to Auto Ads 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 8.
Sign in to your AdSense account. In the left navigation panel, click My ads. Click Auto ads. On the "Choose your global settings" page, use the controls to select the ad formats that you'd like to show across your entire site. Leave Automatically get new formats selected if you want AdSense to automatically add new ad formats to your global settings as they become available. Click Next. On the "Place code on your page" page, click Copy code. Paste the ad code between the tags of each page that you want to show Auto ads. If you're not sure how to do this, see our Code implementation guide. Click Done. Auto ads will start to appear on your pages within about 15 minutes.
Wordpress publishers can have a look at this article to see how to insert Auto Ads on their site.
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Best Practices 1.
Before customizing for different pages, opt-in to all formats to see what works best
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Suggest your publishers to test Auto ads in addition to their existing ad units to compare results
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Exclude Auto ads on pages where competitor tags are hardcoded
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Don’t include Auto ads on pages with floating menus or inflexible layout
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Questions Thank You!
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Turn your dreams into reality! “I started with my recipe blog in 2007. Information about my website spread through word of mouth and I got a lot of visitors through search too. Today, a bulk of my visitors come from Google Search so I can say that the situation has changed a lot. As local languages become stronger on the Internet, I expect it will get better and better!” Nisha Madhulika Celebrity Chef & Founder, NishaMadhulika.com Google Confidential and Proprietary
