Interest-Based Advertising

Got this from Google AdSense today. Start checking those privacy policies!  This raises another question how much privacy do you as a user expect to have ?  

Hi,

We’re writing to let you know about the upcoming launch of interest-based advertising, which will require you to review and make any necessary changes to your site’s privacy policies. You’ll also see some new options on your Account Settings page.

Interest-based advertising will allow advertisers to show ads based on a user’s previous interactions with them, such as visits to advertiser website and also to reach users based on their interests (e.g. “sports enthusiast”). To develop interest categories, we will recognize the types of web pages users visit throughout the Google content network. As an example, if they visit a number of sports pages, we will add them to the “sports enthusiast” interest category. To learn more about your associated account settings, please visit the AdSense Help Center at http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=20310.

As a result of this announcement, your privacy policy will now need to reflect the use of interest-based advertising. Please review the information at https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=100557 to ensure that your site’s privacy policies are up-to-date, and make any necessary changes by April 8, 2009. Because publisher sites and laws vary across countries, we’re unfortunately unable to suggest specific privacy policy language.

For more information about interest-based advertising, you can also visit the Inside AdSense Blog at http://adsense.blogspot.com/2009/03/driving-monetization-with-ads-that.html.

We appreciate your participation and look forward to this upcoming enhancement.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

What should I sell? How can I find a niche?

People always ask what should they sell as an affiliate? How to I get traffic? Which niches will I be successful at?   Here is an excerpt from the GooBert report from Michael Campbell that answers those questions and more.

 

“FINDING YOUR NICHE

 

Ideally, it should something you know a lot about. Something that comes easily to you. Something you’re

familiar with. Something you do or use every day. It could be your cell phone, your car, your hobby or something work related. It could be your area of expertise, degree or study.

If you already know what you want sell, go ahead and jump to the next chapter. But if you’re stuck,

and don’t know what to sell, we’ll do a little discovery process to tap your inner desires and passion.

Let me ask you a question.

What do you love to do?

That is the secret question where opportunities lay. It’s so simple that its constantly overlooked. But

seriously, what do you spend your time doing?

Some people love their work. For them, its easy to write about their experiences, training and

expertise. For others work is just a job. If you’re in that category, look to your hobbies, or things

that you enjoy doing.

I’ve done this discovery process with hundreds of people. Even those who claim they’re dumb as a

stump and don’t know anything.  Everyone has something that they get comments on.

People notice you and tell you that you’re good at it, or know a lot about it, whatever that “IT” is

for you.”

GooBert is the fastest way to get traffic and start generating revenue from affiliate programs.

There’s nothing risky about it. It’s easy to do and it doesn’t involve PPC (pay per click) advertising

or any additional expenses.

All you need is access to the internet, a domain name, basic hosting and a WordPress blog. That’s

all you need and it works like magic.

It takes about 30 minutes a day, but you can spend more time on it if you like. It’s up to you. Remember,

the harder you work, the luckier you’ll get.  So why not turn on the TV a half hour later?

Wouldn’t you rather be building your future instead?

Go Get GooBert