Happy first birthday, Google Ad Manager
March 13th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
A year ago today, we announced the beta release of Google Ad Manager, our hosted ad serving and management solution for publishers with small direct sales teams. Over the past year we’ve made Ad Manager widely available to all publishers in 32 languag…
Site maintenance on Saturday, March 14
March 12th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You won’t be able to log in to your account during this time, but your ad targeting won’t be affected, and we’ll continue to record your clicks, impressions,…
Driving monetization with ads that reach the right audience
March 11th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Advertisers spend more money on campaigns that reach the right audience; helping them do that should drive more revenue to your websites. This week we’re announcing plans to provide interest-based advertising across AdSense publisher sites to help achi…
March 9th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Do you run a site that relates to people or topics often covered in the media? Or are you looking for additional ways to engage your users? If so, we’d like to introduce you to our recently released Google News–based element for webmasters and develo…
March 6th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We wanted to let you know that yesterday at around 2pm PST, a bug in our system caused less relevant contextually-targeted ads to appear for approximately 10 hours. You were still credited for all valid clicks and impressions on the ads which appeared …
March 4th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’re excited to introduce to you expandable ads, a new type of ad that can appear on your pages. Expandable ads are rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of the ad unit, following a user-initiated action. This creates more real estat…
Updates on account access and reporting
March 4th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’d like to take a moment to explain a login issue that some of you may have encountered last night, as well as let you know about an upcoming stats delay you may notice.Login loopIf you tried to sign in to your AdSense account between 10:45 and 11:35…
Reports have gone international
March 3rd, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
One of the requests we frequently hear from our international publishers is to view reports in currencies other than U.S. Dollars. That’s why we’re happy to announce that publishers located in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain can now …
February 26th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
A few months ago, we shared a number of AdSense for search optimization tips with you. Here’s the story of one AdSense publisher who recently tried some of these techniques and saw substantial results after making a few small changes.VanGoghGallery.com…
February 23rd, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Sometimes we receive reports about AdSense code appearing on websites that may contain content copied from other websites. We understand that many of our publishers are concerned about this issue, so we’d like to give you some information about the pro…
February 19th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
You’ve been asking for more control over the appearance of the ads on your sites, so we’re happy to let you know that you can now change the font face of the text in ad units on pages in Latin-character languages. You can choose between Arial, Times, a…
February 18th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance this Saturday, February 21st. While you won’t be able to log into your AdSense or Google Ad Manager accounts between 10am and 2pm PST, we’ll continue tracking your clicks, impressions, and earni…
Reports being updated
February 15th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Yesterday, we experienced an issue which caused AdSense and Google Ad Manager reports to be delayed through the day. The issue began at 4am PST and lasted several hours, but has now been resolved. No stats from yesterday were lost, and our engineers ha…
With love, from me (the AdSense Crawler) to you
February 14th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We recently caught up with our friend the AdSense Crawler, who wanted to share this poem with our publishers:Red roses are fine for showing your love,Kisses, jewelry, and chocolate, they’re okay.Yet my heart skips a beat from none of the above,Ask me…
Our new Help Forum, now in seven more languages
February 12th, 2009 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Back in October, we launched a brand new English Help Forum to make it easier for publishers to ask questions and share advice. Now, we’re happy to announce that this Help Forum platform is available for publishers in seven additional languages: French…