Google Launches AdSense for Mobile

Category: Web Development Author: Gary R. Hess

Today Google implemented its new Mobile AdSense without much coverage.

Here’s the rundown:

You must have a mobile website. Meaning, the website (or page?) must be in XHTML, WML, or CHTML and properly display in mobile phones.
The website will also need to be created on a server-side platform like PHP or ASP.
The ads will be shown in either PHP, ASP, CGI/Perl, or JSP.
The ads will be contextual, exactly the same as regular AdSense.
Google suggests searching for “create mobile website” or “make mobile webpage” to find out more information on how to create such a site.
Ads are available as single or double ads; with both being the same size, just one shows one ad in it while the other two.

Of course, to show such ads you must have an AdSense account. If you don’t,

As far as I can tell, this is the first contextual advertising available on mobile phones. We’ll have to see where this puts other publishing programs in the coming weeks/months.