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AdSense for content, now in Thai
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Late last year
we welcomed Thai
to our AdSense for search family, and we're now excited to let you know about the launch of AdSense for content in Thai. If you're a publisher with a Thai website, you'll now be able to earn money for valid clicks and impressions for Google ads on your site. Get started by
logging in
to your account and visiting the
AdSense Setup
tab to generate ad code. Or, if you don't have an AdSense account yet, review our
program policies
and then feel free to
submit an application
.
To celebrate this launch, why not look up a few
Thai recipes
and prepare traditional dishes like Som Tum, a spicy green papaya salad, or Tom Yam, a hot and sour soup? We hope they'll leave you content and ready to create new content of your own.
ยินดีต้อนรับสู่โปรแกรมของเราค่ะ
Posted by Nopparat Yokubon - AdSense Thai Publisher Support
Lucy's final tips for Friday newbies
Friday, September 26, 2008
As the summer draws to a close, it is with a heavy heart that I bring you our last Newbie Friday post. I hope you've enjoyed our words of wisdom over the past few months and have found the information useful. Our team will continue to update this blog with the most up-to-date AdSense news and information, so please don't let this be goodbye. If you missed part of the series or want to re-read specific posts, just visit our
Newbie label
at any time and look for our summer-themed logo. So, from one oldie to many newbies, I'll close out this season with a few final tips for our new publishers.
Go wide and get rich (media)
If you've just recently started with AdSense, there are two format-related tips I would instantly recommend. The first is to enable both text and
image ads
, which will increase competition among ads to appear in your ad units and may result in higher CPMs. Second, use some of our
wider units
, such as the 160x600 wide skyscraper, the 300x250 medium rectangle, or the 728x90 leaderboard. There are more rich media (image, flash, video and gadget) ads available in wider ad formats, and wider ad units are the preferred formats for advertisers looking to target your site. Again, increased competition or your ad space will help you maximise your earnings potential.
Use channels
Channels
are powerful reporting tools, sometimes overlooked by new publishers. They allow you to view the AdSense performance of a site, a specific page, or even a specific ad unit, which can help you see where your ads are performing best. You can name these channels, give them descriptions, and then define them as ad placements so that they are visible to AdWords advertisers.
The secret
As top AdSense earners will tell you, when it comes to earning with AdSense, the most important thing is a policy-compliant site with good-quality, original content. Such sites attract users, relevant ads and, ultimately, revenue.
Finally, we constantly maintain online resources like our
AdSense Help Forum
,
Newbie Central
, and our
Known Issues page
to share useful information with you. We hope you'll use them to make the most of AdSense.
Posted by Lucy McKenna - AdSense UK Publisher Support
Is it right to search on your own site?
Friday, September 19, 2008
If you've added an
AdSense for search
box to your page, you're probably aware of the relevant search results it provides your users. That being said, a few publishers have asked us if it’s a violation of our
program policies
to perform searches in their own AdSense for search boxes. The short answer is no, this activity is not explicitly prohibited by our program policies.
However, we strongly advise against using your own AdSense for search box for a couple of reasons. First, it can increase the chance of accidental or invalid clicks on the ads that appear on the search results pages. Second, this will inflate the number of queries in your reports, giving you an inaccurate picture of the activity on your site.
If you’d like to use Google search, we recommend visiting Google.com or installing the
Google Toolbar
. And if you're using
Google Chrome
, don't forget that you can type search queries directly into your
address bar
.
Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
Continuing to improve our ads
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Readers with sharp eyes will notice that on some rare occasions, your ads may appear or act slightly differently than what you're accustomed to. Rest assured that this is normal behavior that results from our efforts to improve the experience for all members of the advertising ecosystem. (You may have noticed a similar post about our search results on the
official Google blog
.)
One way in which we achieve this is by making continued tweaks and innovations to the user behavior and appearance of our ads. In the past, these experiments have included changes to the font styling, coloring, spacing, and other aesthetic components. More specifically, changes such as
redesigned ad units
and
arrows to show additional ads
have stemmed from these tests. The purpose of these tests is to identify changes to our product that can bring long-term benefits to our publishers, your site's visitors, and advertisers.
Before rolling out a change to our ads, we test performance for a limited number of ad impressions, which may not apply to all publishers. Although we don't notify publishers of these specific changes in order to prevent bias, we closely monitor the performance of these tests. We also welcome feedback from publishers, users, and advertisers, so feel free to
drop us an email
.
Posted by Keith Mander - AdSense Product Specialist
Quality, not quantity
Friday, September 12, 2008
As we mentioned
a few weeks ago
, you can use your AdSense account to display ads on any policy-compliant sites you own. This has often sparked the question among new publishers of 'How many sites do I need to earn money with AdSense?'
We'd like to stress that it's not the number of sites you have, but the quality of those sites that will help you increase your earnings with AdSense. If you're just getting started with your first website and the AdSense program, we recommend taking the time to build up your site with plenty of original, quality content -- write about topics you're passionate about, or which you have expertise in. When designing your website, keep our
Webmaster Guidelines
and, most importantly, your users in mind.
Then, take advantage of our
Webmaster Tools
to help increase your site's visibility in the Google search index, and
try out the tips
our Search Quality Evaluators have provided. Once you've built up organic traffic to your site, use
Website Optimizer
to understand how users interact with your pages and make improvements to your layout. And of course, during all of this, experiment with
AdSense optimization tips
to learn which colors, formats, and placements monetize best on your site.
Finally, as we blogged about during this
Newbie Fridays
series, your earnings potential can go up as advertisers find that you're sending high-quality leads to their sites. This won't happen overnight, but with patience and hard work you can watch your efforts convert into a high-quality site and higher AdSense earnings. And you won't even need a hundred sites to do it :)
Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
Site maintenance on Saturday, September 13
Thursday, September 11, 2008
This Saturday, September 13, our engineers will be performing site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. As is typical during these maintenance periods, you won't be able to log in during these hours, but your earnings will continue to accrue and ads continue to be displayed on your pages.
For those of you located in different time zones, we've provided the maintenance start time for a few cities around the world.
Montreal - 1pm Saturday
Milan - 7pm Saturday
Moscow - 9pm Saturday
Mumbai - 10:30pm Saturday
Manila - 1am Sunday
Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support
Western Union launched in Panama
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Following our announcement
a few weeks ago
, we're happy to announce that Western Union is now offered as a payment method for publishers located in Panama. To sign up for payments by Western Union, sign in to your account and follow
these instructions
. Please also keep in mind that we're only able to make Western Union payments to
individual payee names
, but not to businesses.
Not located in Panama? We've been reading your comments on our other recent payment-related posts, and understand that many of you are looking forward to new payment options in additional countries. Please know that we aren't able to provide details about when new options may become available, as setting them up can take time due to factors like compliance with local laws and tax regulations. However, we're working hard to find more convenient ways to send you your earnings, and we'll definitely announce any new options here. In the meantime, please feel free to keep leaving your feedback, and we appreciate your patience!
Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
Chasing the perfect layout with AdSense for search
Monday, September 08, 2008
AdSense publisher Next Small Things has long understood that search is the entry point for users to find what they're looking for on the web. In fact, the idea for
CoolChaser.com
, a MySpace layout creation and customization site (and Next Small Things's largest business to date), came from the observation that many web surfers were using the company's search engine to find instructions to change their MySpace backgrounds. The observation and ensuing business idea has paid off, and in just one year CoolChaser.com has gained a loyal user base: over 200,000 users are now finding or creating layouts on the site every day. "CoolChaser has become a one-stop-shop for layouts because of the ease of use and the choice and ability for users to express what they feel at the time," says founder Chao Lam.
With over 20 million user-submitted layouts (and 3,000 created every hour), it was becoming increasingly difficult for users to find the layouts they were looking for. "We were getting a lot of requests from users to provide some sort of search mechanism so that they could easily find what they were looking for," developer Sachiko Kwan says. As an existing AdSense publisher, Kwan decided to try
AdSense for search
and was immediately impressed by the quick setup process and the accuracy of the results. With the new
SiteSearch feature
, Kwan was able to restrict the searches so users didn't have to leave the site to find what they were looking for. In addition, the new watermark feature allowed Kwan to add the search box without any rearrangement in the navigation bar.
Most recently, Lam and Kwan began
optimizing their search
for better performance and user experience. If a user wasn't creating a layout, they were looking for one. So Kwan moved the search box from the upper right corner of each page to the center of the header and also added a second search box to the bottom of every page, in case users who were done browsing needed to search again. On the search results page, she changed the ad borders to a lighter color to better blend in with the site's pages.
Within a week of making these changes, Lam and Kwan saw their daily search queries on CoolChaser increase by 40% and earnings more than double. Since implementing AdSense for search on CoolChaser, search has become the second most popular functionality behind creating layouts. Lam and Kwan continue to focus on user experience, and they are now working to refine search results using
keywords
and
labels
. "There's such an enormous variety of things people search for," Lam says. "AdSense for search is really working for us."
Have you had success with AdSense for search, or our new optimization tips? If so, we'd love to
hear from you
.
Posted by Sandra Tsui - AdSense Publisher Support
Relating AdSense to AdWords
Friday, September 05, 2008
We think it's important for all publishers, both new and veteran, to understand the role they play in our ad network ecosystem. While AdSense is designed for publishers to monetize their websites with Google ads, it's also designed to extend the reach for our AdWords advertisers, providing them with ad real estate whose value is close to that on Google Search results.
If your website performs well for advertisers, there may be increased competition among them to fill your ad spaces. This means we'd have a wider variety of possible ads to display, so the ads you see on your site may be more relevant to your site content and your users' interests. This may lead to more clicks from your users, more
placement-targeted
campaigns geared towards your site, and increased advertiser bids. Overall, you're likely to earn more revenue with your site if advertisers are generating conversions and receiving quality leads from your site.
On the other hand, if your website performs poorly for advertisers, they may be less inclined to display on your site. This means that the ads our system displays on your site may not be as relevant to your site content and your users' interests, leading to fewer clicks and decreased advertiser bids. As a result, you're likely to earn less revenue with your site if advertisers are performing poorly.
To maximize the value for advertisers displaying on your site, we recommend focusing on developing a high-quality site with original content that's valuable to your users. For more information, please consult our
program policies
and
Webmaster Quality Guidelines
for reference.
Posted by the Google Ad Traffic Quality Team
Don't get held up by expired check holds
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Whether it's your high school yearbook, the ticket stub from a movie you saw with your first sweetheart, or the lock of hair from your child's first trim, we all have mementos that we like to keep around. However, we hope that your AdSense check isn't one of them!
As a friendly reminder, AdSense
checks expire
after 6 months, so once you get your check in the mail please don't forget to deposit it.
If you're holding onto to a check and it expires, your account will be placed on hold and you'll need to
re-select a form of payment
to resume payments the next time you've crossed the US $100 threshold. For many of you, you may consider trying
EFT
,
Western Union
, or
local currency checks
if they're available in your country. If you don't yet see your preferred payment option for your country yet, please know we're working hard to add additional forms of payment in the future.
So no lolly-gagging! Once you've got your payments, it's off to the bank with you to count all your ad-dollars and ad-cents!
Posted by Elizabeth Ferdon - AdSense Publisher Support
Updated 11/17/2010: Checks now expire after one year. Please see this
help article
for more information.
Announcing Google Chrome
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Today, we're
happy to announce
the release of the beta version of a new open-source browser:
Google Chrome
. We encourage you to download it and give it a try.
Google Chrome features a simple and intuitive user interface and an entirely new architecture designed for speed, security, and stability. You can find out more about other Google Chrome features
here
.
For publishers, you should see the ads on your pages continue to appear as normal in Google Chrome; we built Google Chrome so that most webmasters and site owners shouldn't have to make changes to their sites. If your site is compatible with Safari, it should also be compatible with Google Chrome, as they are both built using WebKit. If you have any questions regarding compatibility with your site, feel free to refer to our
webmaster site
.
To learn more about why we built Google Chrome, see our
official Google blog
.
Posted by Brian Rakowski - Google Chrome Product Manager
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