Site maintenance on April 12 at 10am PDT
April 11th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance tomorrow, April 12th from 10am to 2pm PDT. You won’t be able to log in to your account, but we’ll continue to serve ads to your pages and track your earnings as usual.Located in a different time…
April 9th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Of late, we’ve received a few emails from new AdSense applicants about not being accepted into the program despite paying a specific amount of money or buying a CD package. We’d like to take this opportunity to state that we’re not affiliated with …
April 4th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’ve just launched our 17th AdSense Help Forum for Czech and Slovak speakers! If you speak one of these languages, join the new forum today to ask questions and share your AdSense knowledge with other publishers. As with our other forums, an AdSense r…
Show me the ads
April 2nd, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
After months of testing, we’ve just updated our text ad format to include ‘next’ and ‘previous’ arrow buttons for cost-per-click (CPC) ads. When a user clicks on the ‘next’ button, an entirely new group of ads will appear in the ad unit, giving your us…
April 1st, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’re happy to announce the launch of AdSense for conversations, a new type of monetization solution that “puts the ‘context’ in contextual advertising”. Now, in just a few simple steps, you can begin displaying ads that are relevant to the topics you’…
March 27th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’ve given you many optimization tips over the years, and, as you know, it’s important to consider how your ad implementations affect not only your click-through rate, but your users’ and advertisers’ experience as well. To support this, we’d like to …
March 25th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
As you may know, we’ll send you a Personal Identification Number (PIN) by standard mail when your account first reaches $10 in earnings. This PIN is used to help verify publisher accounts and addresses for security purposes. We often receive messages f…
Stick ‘em up!
March 20th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
If you’re well versed in webspeak, you’re probably familiar with the concept of stickiness — the quality that entices web users to stick around a given site. Here at AdSense, we’re down with the web version of stickiness, but we’ve got a different kin…
Terms and Conditions clarification
March 19th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Since updating our Terms and Conditions a few weeks ago, we’ve received a number of questions related to the new privacy policy and the display language within accounts. We’d like to address those two areas below — but please keep in mind that as with…
Working with the Ad Review Center
March 17th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
As you may remember, we started enabling the Ad Review Center for publishers back in December to let you review ads placement-targeted to your site. We’ve recently enabled the Ad Review Center for more accounts and will continue rolling it out over the…
Introducing Google Ad Manager
March 13th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
As part of our continuing commitment to provide publishers of all sizes with tools to improve revenue opportunities and productivity, we’re excited to announce Google Ad Manager.If you operate a site with remnant ad inventory as well as reserved ad inv…
Payment holds, held up
March 12th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’ve heard from a few of you that even though you’ve already reached $10 in earnings, you’re not seeing the prompt to remove payment holds on your account. So we turned to our payments specialist Dan Marcus:”Every day, our system runs a check to deter…
March 7th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Welcome back to the second part of our series designed to help you better understand revenue fluctuations. If you’re just joining us now, or if you’d just like to brush up on those reporting terms before we dive in again, feel free to visit our previou…
Diagnosing and treating revenue fluctuations (Part I)
March 5th, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
You love your website and you want it to thrive. You create content, manage your community, and keep an eye on your AdSense performance. If AdSense revenue is down, you’re understandably concerned. If AdSense revenue is up, you’re happy, but you want t…
March 3rd, 2008 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
When Les Kenny and his family launched their do-it-yourself (D.I.Y.) website www.buildeazy.com in 2001 solely as a hobby site, they had no idea of the impact Google AdSense would have on their lives.Les had spent most of his life building in both Sydne…