Date: Mon, Jul 23 2007 11:32 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
We've recently noticed that many publishers are having trouble logging
into their accounts after the latest Mozilla Firefox update. A number
of publishers have reported that they're only seeing a sign-up page
rather than a login form. After a little digging and some testing,
we've found that Adblock Plus, an add-on that sometimes gets installed
with Firefox, can prevent you from accessing your account on the
AdSense homepage. Our recommendation is to clear your cache and cookies
and turn off the Adblock software before trying to log in at
www.google.com/adsense. You may also wish to review our troubleshooting
tips for login issues in our Help Center.Thanks for bringing this to
our attention!Posted by Rajiv Sud - AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 7/23/2007 11:31:00 AM
TOPIC: More sleep for the AdSense Crawler
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
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
TOPIC: You work hard for the money
Date: Thurs, Jul 19 2007 10:38 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
It's almost the end of the month, which means that it's almost time for
us to send our publishers their payments. We know you're eagerly
waiting for your check or EFT deposit to pay your bills, so we'd like
to answer some questions you may have and clarify what to expect over
the next few weeks.Will I be sent a payment this month?You can check to
see whether you're eligible for a payment at the end of July. Just
visit your Payment History page, set the date range to 'All time', and
find the amount in the 'Monthly balance' column corresponding to June.
If this number is greater than $100 and you removed all holds from your
account before July 15th, you're eligible for a payment at the end of
this month.Can you give me an actual 'end of the month'
date?Unfortunately, we can't. You may sometimes see that your payment
is issued on the 23rd of the month, and at other times on the 29th.
This is because all earnings are audited for accuracy every month, and
this automatic audit process can take different amounts of time during
each payment cycle. To keep things simple, you may wish to think
of 'end of the month' as the last day of the month. After your payment
is issued, please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery, depending on your
location and the form of payment you've selected.What about the 25th? I
read somewhere that I'm supposed to get my checks by that day.That's a
reissue date that applies to the month after a standard delivery check
is issued. Let's say you earned $200 in June and removed all payment
holds before July 15th. We'd then issue you a check at the end of July,
which we'd expect to reach you by August 25th.I've selected EFT. Does
that mean my payments get processed faster by Google?No, the processing
time is still the same for EFT and checks. However, once processed and
issued, EFT payments typically reach publishers more quickly, since
they're directly deposited into bank accounts. If you're issued an EFT
payment at the end of July, we expect that you'll see it in your bank
account by August 5th. If you're issued a standard delivery check at
the end of July, we expect that you'll receive it by August 25th.After
reading through this info, we hope you feel like an expert on
payments. :) We've used the current month in all of the examples, but
feel free to refer back to this post again in the future. If you'd like
to learn more about AdSense payments, we recommend reviewing our
Payments Demo, Payment Guide, and subscribing to the AdSense
Calendar.Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 7/19/2007 10:37:00 AM
From: Inside AdSense Team
It's almost the end of the month, which means that it's almost time for
us to send our publishers their payments. We know you're eagerly
waiting for your check or EFT deposit to pay your bills, so we'd like
to answer some questions you may have and clarify what to expect over
the next few weeks.Will I be sent a payment this month?You can check to
see whether you're eligible for a payment at the end of July. Just
visit your Payment History page, set the date range to 'All time', and
find the amount in the 'Monthly balance' column corresponding to June.
If this number is greater than $100 and you removed all holds from your
account before July 15th, you're eligible for a payment at the end of
this month.Can you give me an actual 'end of the month'
date?Unfortunately, we can't. You may sometimes see that your payment
is issued on the 23rd of the month, and at other times on the 29th.
This is because all earnings are audited for accuracy every month, and
this automatic audit process can take different amounts of time during
each payment cycle. To keep things simple, you may wish to think
of 'end of the month' as the last day of the month. After your payment
is issued, please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery, depending on your
location and the form of payment you've selected.What about the 25th? I
read somewhere that I'm supposed to get my checks by that day.That's a
reissue date that applies to the month after a standard delivery check
is issued. Let's say you earned $200 in June and removed all payment
holds before July 15th. We'd then issue you a check at the end of July,
which we'd expect to reach you by August 25th.I've selected EFT. Does
that mean my payments get processed faster by Google?No, the processing
time is still the same for EFT and checks. However, once processed and
issued, EFT payments typically reach publishers more quickly, since
they're directly deposited into bank accounts. If you're issued an EFT
payment at the end of July, we expect that you'll see it in your bank
account by August 5th. If you're issued a standard delivery check at
the end of July, we expect that you'll receive it by August 25th.After
reading through this info, we hope you feel like an expert on
payments. :) We've used the current month in all of the examples, but
feel free to refer back to this post again in the future. If you'd like
to learn more about AdSense payments, we recommend reviewing our
Payments Demo, Payment Guide, and subscribing to the AdSense
Calendar.Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 7/19/2007 10:37:00 AM
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