AdSense Webinar Today April 1 - Did You Enjoy It?

[Sally Stitts]

I liked the new AdSense "Heat Map". It showed the very best placement spot at the very bottom of the first screen, JUST ABOVE the fold. I have always wondered about this, since they have never shown the fold before. Should we move our ads down a bit?

And, there was a great graphic comparison of performance, by ad format. Not just words, but comparison data. However, the 250x250 format was missing - the only format I ever use.

The audio was a little tough to follow - not quite loud enough, and it was breaking up - kind of like stuttering - little missing chunks.

[edited by: Sally_Stitts at 7:12 pm (utc) on April 1, 2009]

[HuskyPup]

I didn't even know it was on!

[Sally Stitts]

It was by email invitation.
Maybe they thought that I needed it. Ha-ha.
Maybe they thought that you didn't.

No big deal. It was all very basic. I'm pretty sure you probably knew all the stuff presented. Frankly, I was expecting more detail, but when you have just 1/2 hour to present everything, it's going to be pretty light. I could give you some links to some online reviews, but I can't do that here.

The second 1/2 hour was Q&A time. One guy has posted a link to all the questions and answers on another webmaster forum. You don't have to look really hard to find it.

[edited by: Sally_Stitts at 9:12 pm (utc) on April 1, 2009]

[LostOne]

"It was by email invitation."

Is this the same one that's scheduled for Thursday called Webinar 2?

[Sally Stitts]

LostOne -
Ha-ha-ha. I have no idea. I didn't get the email for that one. Maybe they think the second one is too complicated for me. We can only speculate about the criteria they use to determine participants. It appears to be random, and limited.

It is entirely possible that the second one is "a cut above". Too bad, because I think I could have gotten a lot more out of #2, since I have been doing AdSense for over 4 years.

In 2004 and 2005, they published the Webinars afterward. Now, they only send copies of the recording to the participants (confirmed today).

[edited by: Sally_Stitts at 9:30 pm (utc) on April 1, 2009]

[AdSenseAdvisor]

This webinar was announced on the Inside AdSense Blog and was open to the first 500 publishers to sign up. I've passed along the feedback that you'd like webinar content to be broadly available after the event.

Going forward, the best way to get invited to webinars we think you'll like is to sign up to receive emails from the AdSense team using the new email notification preferences in your account.

ASA