Date: Tues, Jul 17 2007 10:10 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
Let's imagine that you're the AdSense Crawler. You're bouncing along
all over the Internet, visiting publishers' sites, and letting the
AdSense system back at Google know what the pages are all about. Then
one day, you run into a site that asks you for a login and
password. "Huh? I don't have a username and password to this site. How
am I going to crawl the pages behind that login?"This is something our
crawler sees every day here at AdSense. The result is that your users
end up with poorly targeted ads and the AdSense Crawler ends up with
sleepless nights, wondering what could have been -- if only it had
crawled those pages.We've recently launched a new feature called Site
Authentication to take care of this problem. Using Site Authentication,
you can give our crawler access to your login-protected pages by
passing it information to log into your site. For example, let's say
your news site has a premium content area, with articles that only
paying members can access. To get ads on those pages, you can use Site
Authentication to provide our crawler with a test username and
password. It's an easy process that starts just by logging into your
AdSense account and finding the 'Site Authentication' link under
the 'AdSense Setup' tab. Once you've supplied us with a username,
password, and a few other details, all you have to do is verify that
you own the site through Google Sitemaps.If this sounds a little
complicated, don't worry -- just check out Site Authentication in your
account and follow the instructions on the page. Please note that you
will only have access to this feature if you've updated your AdSense
login to a Google Account. We appreciate your patience as we roll out
this feature to additional publishers.If you need additional help, feel
free to visit our Help Center. Once you've set up your authentication
rule and verified ownership, it may take 1-2 weeks for our crawler to
visit your site again. Your users will thank you, and so will the
AdSense Crawler.Posted by Jack Chou - AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 7/17/2007 10:09:00 AM
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