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Happy Holidays
Friday, December 25, 2009
We'd like to send our best wishes to all our publishers around the world. Wherever you're spending this holiday season, we hope that it's filled with much love, warmth, and happiness.
Happy Holidays!
Posted by Dia Muthana on behalf of the Google AdSense Team
Webinars - out with the old, in with the new
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
This year, the AdSense team has brought you a series of live webinars covering a range of topics, and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended. We hope that you're already profiting from implementing the tips featured in our webinars.
Your feedback to date has been very helpful, and we'll spend the coming weeks developing brand new, interesting content for 2010. If you haven't already done so, we invite you to
share with us
the topics you'd like to see covered in future webinars.
We've received great reviews from publishers who've attended our webinars, so if you haven't seen one as yet, you can
view the recordings
of these events whenever it's convenient for you.
Wishing you a happy holiday season and a healthy new year.
Posted by Siobhan McCormack - AdSense Optimisation Team
Keeping your account secure
Thursday, December 17, 2009
We understand how important your AdSense account is to you. You need to sign into your account to generate ad code, manage the appearance of your ads, view your reports and check the status of your payments. However, keep in mind that your AdSense account is actually part of your Google Account. This means that you may have several Google products, such as AdSense, Gmail, AdWords, Blogger, etc, all tied to a single sign-in.
We take account access issues very seriously and would like to take some time to provide a few simple tips to help you protect your Google Account.
If you're having trouble signing in to your Google Account, usually
resetting your password
will do the trick. To add additional security to your account, you should
update your alternate address
, choose a
strong security question
(if you have Gmail), and
add a mobile number
to your account so Google can text you a recovery code if you ever forget your password. Also, if you have a Gmail address, we recommend providing a current
secondary email address
where you can receive our password-assistance email. If you don't have any of these set up, it will be difficult for us to verify your identify and reset your password, so please take some time to
update your security options
.
If resetting your password doesn't work, you can try filling out our
account recovery
form. We can usually restore access in a few hours if you're able to provide the necessary information to prove ownership.
Here are some additional tips to ensure that only you have access to your account:
Create a strong password and security question. Your password shouldn't be something that someone else can easily guess. The same goes for your security question. If someone that knows you can answer your security question, then it's probably not a good question. Review
these tips
for suggestions.
Don't share your account password with anyone. It may be tempting to share your password with your friends or family, but don't do it, especially if it's your personal account. If you need to create an account that is accessed by several people, make sure that the account is not tied to any products that contain personal information.
Don't respond to messages asking for your username or password. Google will never send you an email, IM, or any other communication asking for your sign-in information, so don't respond to any messages asking for it.
Be cautious of fake sign-in pages. Always look for www.google.com/adsense in the URL. If the URL is different, don't sign in on the page. If you think you may have signed in using a fake sign-in page for AdSense or any other Google product, please reset your password as soon as possible to prevent abuse of your Google services by a third party.
You can find more tips in the
Google Accounts Help Center
.
Posted by Diane Velasco - AdSense Policy Team
More Google Web Elements for you
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
We've posted a few times about
Google Web Elements
and how they can benefit you as a publisher. Today, we're excited to announce new features for Google Web Elements, including the addition of 3 three new elements for Google Translate, Reader, and Orkut. For publishers, this means 3 new options for engaging your users and making your website more interactive.
To read more about the new features and how to get started, hop on over to the
Google Code Blog
.
Posted by Christine Tsai - Web Elements Team
A note about a messaging change in your AdSense account
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Today we're changing some messaging in the AdSense interface concerning your earnings, and we wanted to give you some more information on why we're making this change.
In order to be more transparent about how our system calculates earnings, we've added the words "Estimated" and "Finalized" next to "Earnings" throughout your account. Rest assured these
terminology changes
don't reflect a change to the way your finalized earnings are calculated. It's simply intended to give you a clearer idea of what's our estimation of your earnings and what's finalized.
As you may have noticed in the past, the earnings on the Overview and Advanced Reports pages may sometimes
differ
from the earnings listed on your Payment History page. This is because earnings on your Overview and Advanced Reports pages reflect initial estimations based on our records. We aren't able to provide finalized earnings on these pages because they still need to be verified for accuracy, a process that takes place a few days after the end of every month. The finalized sum is then posted on your Payment History page by the 10th of the next month.
While we can't say how much these amounts would differ for any one publisher, most publishers will not see a significant difference. Again, please keep in mind that this is only a display change, and that your finalized earnings will continue to be calculated and credited to you in the same way as before.
Updated to include screenshots and Help Center links
Posted by Elizabeth Ferdon - AdSense Payments Team
Search for ads in the Ad Review Center
Monday, December 07, 2009
When we announced the new AdSense interface a few weeks ago, we mentioned how we've been working on building more functionality into the Ad Review Center to make it easier for you to find and manage your ads. Today, we'd like to let you know that we're introducing the ability to search for ads in the Ad Review Center. This option is currently available to a limited number of publishers using the new AdSense interface, but we're working on rolling this out more widely as we invite more publishers to test the new interface.
The search feature has been designed to improve your efficiency when finding ads to review. You'll be able to search for ads by keyword, display URL, or destination URL. For example, you can now search for all ads that have been placement targeted to your site with the destination URL of one of your competitors' websites. In addition, you can search across multiple AdSense products, like AdSense for mobile content and AdSense for feeds, and also specify whether you'd like to view allowed, blocked, or new ads.
Although we aren't able to add more publishers to the test at this time, we wanted to give you a glimpse into one of the ways we're working to make the Ad Review Center easier to use. We'll be collecting feedback from the first group of publishers testing this feature, and plan to improve it and then expand to additional publishers in the coming months.
Posted by Arlene Lee -
Inside AdSense
team
Connect with AdSense via online webinars
Friday, December 04, 2009
We often hear publishers ask for more information about using AdSense most effectively, and so in response, we've initiated a number of free, online webinars. If you haven't yet participated in a webinar, they focus on specific topics such as increasing your revenue with the AdSense program and taking advantage of new features. At the end of each webinar, you can also ask your questions live to our AdSense specialists.
There are still a number of upcoming webinars in 2009, and we encourage you to
sign up soon
. We've also created a short video about webinars featuring a few members of our Dublin-based team.
Posted by Kamil Tavas - AdSense Optimization Team
A deeper look at channels: Targetable channels (Part III of III)
Thursday, December 03, 2009
During the past 2 weeks, we walked you through the basics of URL and custom channels. In the final episode, Laurence Moore talks about the two ways in which advertisers can target your website: contextual and placement targeting. You'll also learn how to make your channels targetable by advertisers and label them with information such as size, location, and audience so the advertiser can easily find your channels and make an informed decision when choosing to target your site.
Thank you for watching the videos in our channels series, we hope you found them useful. If you'd like to watch more videos from the AdSense team, visit our official channel on
YouTube
.
Posted by Dia Muthana -
Inside AdSense
Team
Category filtering for French, German, and Spanish ads
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
We
recently expanded
category filtering to publishers in additional English-speaking countries, and we're happy to announce that the feature is now available for ads in French, German, and Spanish. With category filtering, you can prevent ads from up to 8 specific categories from appearing on your pages. Ads in these categories will be filtered if they're in any of the four supported languages, regardless of how they've been targeted to your pages.
To set up category filtering, sign in to your AdSense account and visit your Ad Review Center, located under the 'AdSense Setup' tab. Once you click 'change', you'll be able to view the full list of categories you can filter. In addition, we'll show you the percentage of revenue and ad impressions you've been receiving from each category in the last 30 days, which can help you understand the impact that applying filters might have.
For more information about category filtering, feel free to visit our
Help Center
. We're still working towards making this feature available in more languages, and we'll be sure to let you know about any updates.
Posted by Arlene Lee -
Inside AdSense
Team
The AdSense Product Ideas page: Now accepting your submissions and votes
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
This past year, we've been working on building features based on your feedback, and we'd like to offer you the opportunity to tell us what's on your AdSense wishlist for 2010. What features or product updates would you like to see? Whether it's an idea for a brand new feature or just a small tweak that would simplify your workflow, we'd like to hear it.
With that in mind, we've created a
Product Ideas page just for AdSense
, and invite you to sign in with your Google Account and submit your suggestions during the next two weeks. You can also look through all submitted ideas and vote on the ones you like.
While we aren't able to guarantee that all the ideas on this page will be implemented, we can guarantee that we'll take the top ideas (as voted by you), and bring them to the AdSense Product Management team for review. By submitting an idea, you agree that Google may use the idea to develop and enhance Google's products and services.
This Ideas page will be open until December 15th, so be sure to
add your ideas and vote
soon!
Posted by Arlene Lee -
Inside AdSense
Team
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