It looks like the Adsense Firefox/Google Toolbar Referral Program has been opened up to international Adsense publishers. In a nutshell, this referral program pays you $1.00USD everytime you convince somebody to install Firefox and the Google Toolbar.

Greg Yardley is reporting that Google is testing out Click-to-Call AdWords. Now when you see a phone icon next to an AdWord listing, you can click on it where you are then prompted to enter your phone number. You will then recieve a phone call from the advertiser. I’ll pass but nonetheless, it’s an interesting new marketing approach for advertisers (and telemarketers?).

A couple of months I wrote a Mint Pepper that let webmasters track Google Adsense clicks on their websites. What made my Pepper quite unique was the fact that it tracked clicks from Firefox (which wasn’t easy due to a bug in Firefox). So having gotten around this bug by watching for the screen coordinates of the mouse click, my tracking script was quite unique.

That prompted me to recieve an email this morning from Aaron Wall of SEOBook asking if he could use the code I created to create a Google AdSense clicks tracker for Google Analytics. I said yes, and as a result here is the Track Google AdSense Clicks via Google Analytics - Free AdSense Tracker.

Enjoy!

Google Adsense has a new feature that will let you Increase ad relevancy by adding simple HTML comments around the key content on your page. By adding the comments…

<!-- google_ad_section_start -->

<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

around your page content will tell the Google spiders to pay extra attention to the specified content when serving Adsense ads.

Alternately, you can also designate sections you’d like to have ignored by adding a (weight=ignore) to the starting tag like this…
<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->