Many of you have opted in to receive our customized suggestions about
your AdSense implementation. When publishers opt in to this
communication, we regularly send them best practice tips that are
relevant to their specific site, to help them optimize and earn more
with Google AdSense.
Take a look at how publisher Johnny Hayes now earns 51% more with
AdSense on his site, funcheapsf.com, as a result of implementing one of
the tips we sent him. You can also learn how publisher Eric Bort’s
AdSense revenue increased by more than 200% on his site
surgerysquad.com by making a change we recommended via email.
How do you sign up to receive personalized performance suggestions?
Step 1. Go to your account settings, and in the Personal settings
section, click "edit"
Step 2. Check the box next to "Customized help and Suggestions"
Step 3. Click "Save"
For the publishers who’ve already opted in:
We'd love to hear your story as well. Tell us about your experiences
with the tips we’ve sent you and the increase in AdSense revenue you’ve
seen. Also, let us know any feedback you might have regarding our
customized suggestions, so we can keep improving how we provide you
with tips and advice.
If you haven't yet opted in, don’t miss out on additional earnings -
opt in today! Make sure to check that the contact information in your
account is up-to-date, so we'll be sure to reach you.
Posted by Nathaniel Kolenberg - Inside AdSense Team
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 5/16/2011 09:10:00 AM
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TOPIC: Terms and Conditions clarification and TOPIC: Working with the Ad Review Center
Date: Wed, Mar 19 2008 9:35 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
TOPIC: Terms and Conditions clarification
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 any legal terms, you may consider
consulting legal counsel if you have law-related questions about our
Terms and Conditions.Privacy policyUnfortunately, we can't suggest any
privacy policy language for your specific site, as all sites are set up
differently and laws may vary across different countries. You might
want to review online resources such as the Network Advertising
Initiative (NAI), which suggests language for data collection of
non-personally identifying information such as:We use third-party
advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These
companies may use information (not including your name, address email
address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web
sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of
interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice
and to know your choices about not having this information used by
these companies, click here.Further examples can be found in Appendix A
of the NAI Self-Regulatory principles for publishers (PDF). Display
languageAt this time, the Terms and Conditions are only available in
one language per country -- whatever is determined as the legally
binding language. As such, you might see that the Terms and Conditions
are displayed in a language different from your Google interface.You
can read our updated Terms and Conditions in a different language, but
please keep in mind that the Terms will vary according to the country
or territory of your payment address. If you select a different
country, the Terms and Conditions you see may not be identical to those
appearing in your AdSense account, and therefore may not apply to you.
Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 3/19/2008 09:35:00 AM
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Date: Mon, Mar 17 2008 8:48 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
TOPIC: Working with the Ad Review Center
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 upcoming weeks. To
get a publisher's perspective on the new feature, we chatted with
Richard Tribe, Director of ski.com.au.Australian snow enthusiasts can
visit ski.com.au to learn about resorts and travel deals, as well as
news and photos of conditions. The site also serves as a skier
community, with videos, forums, wikis, and several blogs. Richard has
been using the Ad Review Center to ensure relevant, high-quality ads
appear alongside his content. He explains that "the Ad Review Center
allowed me to see who was targeting my site, and I saw a wonderful
array of high-quality advertisers in there... The Ad Review Center is a
great way of managing the quality and style of advertiser you would
like to have associated with your publication."To highlight specific
inventory, Richard has turned his custom channels into ad placements.
For instance, he found that his live camera feeds of snow conditions
drove significant advertiser interest, so he created specific snow
camera ad placements. He elaborates, "That extra choice helps make my
site look more attractive and allows advertisers to place their ads
exactly where they want to place them." With targetable custom
channels, Richard has given advertisers more control over where their
placement-targeted ads can appear, and using the Ad Review Center, he
ensures those ads are relevant to his site's audience.To check if the
Ad Review Center has been enabled for your account, visit
the 'Competitive Ad Filter' page under the AdSense Setup tab and look
for a green notification box.When setting up the Ad Review Center in
your account, we strongly recommend you keep your review preference set
to the default of 'Run ads immediately', and review placement-targeted
ads after they have run. Ads don't participate in the auction while
they are awaiting review, and ads that you have blocked can't compete
in the auction either. We ask that you consider the revenue
implications before blocking ads or switching from the 'Run
immediately' setting.Happy skiing (and reviewing)!Posted by Katie
Mandel - AdSense Product Marketing
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 3/17/2008 08:48:00 AM
From: Inside AdSense Team
TOPIC: Terms and Conditions clarification
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/585d24526adde976?hl=en
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 any legal terms, you may consider
consulting legal counsel if you have law-related questions about our
Terms and Conditions.Privacy policyUnfortunately, we can't suggest any
privacy policy language for your specific site, as all sites are set up
differently and laws may vary across different countries. You might
want to review online resources such as the Network Advertising
Initiative (NAI), which suggests language for data collection of
non-personally identifying information such as:We use third-party
advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These
companies may use information (not including your name, address email
address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web
sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of
interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice
and to know your choices about not having this information used by
these companies, click here.Further examples can be found in Appendix A
of the NAI Self-Regulatory principles for publishers (PDF). Display
languageAt this time, the Terms and Conditions are only available in
one language per country -- whatever is determined as the legally
binding language. As such, you might see that the Terms and Conditions
are displayed in a language different from your Google interface.You
can read our updated Terms and Conditions in a different language, but
please keep in mind that the Terms will vary according to the country
or territory of your payment address. If you select a different
country, the Terms and Conditions you see may not be identical to those
appearing in your AdSense account, and therefore may not apply to you.
Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 3/19/2008 09:35:00 AM
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Date: Mon, Mar 17 2008 8:48 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
TOPIC: Working with the Ad Review Center
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/bc0168d30e13e044?hl=en
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 upcoming weeks. To
get a publisher's perspective on the new feature, we chatted with
Richard Tribe, Director of ski.com.au.Australian snow enthusiasts can
visit ski.com.au to learn about resorts and travel deals, as well as
news and photos of conditions. The site also serves as a skier
community, with videos, forums, wikis, and several blogs. Richard has
been using the Ad Review Center to ensure relevant, high-quality ads
appear alongside his content. He explains that "the Ad Review Center
allowed me to see who was targeting my site, and I saw a wonderful
array of high-quality advertisers in there... The Ad Review Center is a
great way of managing the quality and style of advertiser you would
like to have associated with your publication."To highlight specific
inventory, Richard has turned his custom channels into ad placements.
For instance, he found that his live camera feeds of snow conditions
drove significant advertiser interest, so he created specific snow
camera ad placements. He elaborates, "That extra choice helps make my
site look more attractive and allows advertisers to place their ads
exactly where they want to place them." With targetable custom
channels, Richard has given advertisers more control over where their
placement-targeted ads can appear, and using the Ad Review Center, he
ensures those ads are relevant to his site's audience.To check if the
Ad Review Center has been enabled for your account, visit
the 'Competitive Ad Filter' page under the AdSense Setup tab and look
for a green notification box.When setting up the Ad Review Center in
your account, we strongly recommend you keep your review preference set
to the default of 'Run ads immediately', and review placement-targeted
ads after they have run. Ads don't participate in the auction while
they are awaiting review, and ads that you have blocked can't compete
in the auction either. We ask that you consider the revenue
implications before blocking ads or switching from the 'Run
immediately' setting.Happy skiing (and reviewing)!Posted by Katie
Mandel - AdSense Product Marketing
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 3/17/2008 08:48:00 AM
TOPIC: Building with AdSense
Date: Mon, Mar 3 2008 11:04 am
From: Inside AdSense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoZ9eFuIMzQ
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 Sydney and Auckland,
but his hobby was designing projects and writing about them. This
inevitably led to the Buildeazy website, where he posts D.I.Y.
woodworking and building projects. He caters to a universal audience
by using general terminology and incorporating both metric (mm) and
imperial (ft and inch) measurements into all his projects. Les and
daughter Roseanne also wrote two successful kids D.I.Y. books
published in Australasia. They had intended to write more books, but
AdSense proved to be more lucrative.
In early 2004, Les incorporated AdSense into his website. Around March
2005, to his amazement, optimisation of the AdSense ad units
throughout the site doubled the earnings overnight. The income from
AdSense allowed both Les and his wife Jenny to give up their day jobs
and work solely on their passions and hobbies. It has also allowed all
of the family to get involved.
Les has spent a lot of time experimenting with his ad layout and
colour, making use of the Manage Ads feature and custom channels. He
found that the 300x250 medium rectangle was overwhelmingly the best
performing. Using custom channels, he was also able to remove some
units which weren't performing as strongly to reduce clutter on his
site.
"Most of my pages now consist of only two ad units -a 300x250 medium
rectangle at the top of the page and a 336x280 large rectangle at the
bottom of the page. I have found that a couple of well placed ads on a
page do better than a cluster of ads all over the page - and I guess
it is also more pleasing for the visitors."
Once the AdSense units are placed and optimised, everything takes care
of itself -- leaving Les and family to get on with what they enjoy
most.
Posted by Tim Egan - AdSense Australia Optimisation Team
Monday, March 03, 2008 at 10:58:00 AM
From: Inside AdSense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoZ9eFuIMzQ
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 Sydney and Auckland,
but his hobby was designing projects and writing about them. This
inevitably led to the Buildeazy website, where he posts D.I.Y.
woodworking and building projects. He caters to a universal audience
by using general terminology and incorporating both metric (mm) and
imperial (ft and inch) measurements into all his projects. Les and
daughter Roseanne also wrote two successful kids D.I.Y. books
published in Australasia. They had intended to write more books, but
AdSense proved to be more lucrative.
In early 2004, Les incorporated AdSense into his website. Around March
2005, to his amazement, optimisation of the AdSense ad units
throughout the site doubled the earnings overnight. The income from
AdSense allowed both Les and his wife Jenny to give up their day jobs
and work solely on their passions and hobbies. It has also allowed all
of the family to get involved.
Les has spent a lot of time experimenting with his ad layout and
colour, making use of the Manage Ads feature and custom channels. He
found that the 300x250 medium rectangle was overwhelmingly the best
performing. Using custom channels, he was also able to remove some
units which weren't performing as strongly to reduce clutter on his
site.
"Most of my pages now consist of only two ad units -a 300x250 medium
rectangle at the top of the page and a 336x280 large rectangle at the
bottom of the page. I have found that a couple of well placed ads on a
page do better than a cluster of ads all over the page - and I guess
it is also more pleasing for the visitors."
Once the AdSense units are placed and optimised, everything takes care
of itself -- leaving Les and family to get on with what they enjoy
most.
Posted by Tim Egan - AdSense Australia Optimisation Team
Monday, March 03, 2008 at 10:58:00 AM
TOPIC: Lucky number ten
Date: Mon, Feb 11 2008 9:42 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
Two weeks ago, we let you know that the PIN and phone verification
processes would be automatically triggered at $10, rather than $50.
Along those same lines, we've also updated how it works to choose a
form of payment and enter tax information in your account. Because we
don't pay out earnings of less than $10, you'll only be able to choose
a form of payment and enter your tax info once your earnings reach $10.
When you first sign up for AdSense and log in to your account, these
options won't be available yet.So when it comes to payments, consider
10 your new lucky number. Once you receive your PIN or a notice to
verify your phone number, you'll know it's also time to head to your
account and enter your tax information and select your form of payment.
Then you'll be on your way to receiving your first payment -- lucky
you! Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 2/11/2008 09:41:00 AM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/a447001ad70575a0?hl=en
Two weeks ago, we let you know that the PIN and phone verification
processes would be automatically triggered at $10, rather than $50.
Along those same lines, we've also updated how it works to choose a
form of payment and enter tax information in your account. Because we
don't pay out earnings of less than $10, you'll only be able to choose
a form of payment and enter your tax info once your earnings reach $10.
When you first sign up for AdSense and log in to your account, these
options won't be available yet.So when it comes to payments, consider
10 your new lucky number. Once you receive your PIN or a notice to
verify your phone number, you'll know it's also time to head to your
account and enter your tax information and select your form of payment.
Then you'll be on your way to receiving your first payment -- lucky
you! Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 2/11/2008 09:41:00 AM
TOPIC: AdSense in fashion for those who wear many hats
Date: Thurs, Jan 24 2008 2:16 pm
From: Inside AdSense
Here's another AdSense Story Contest submission, this time from
internet entrepreneur Shawn Collins of New Jersey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OkN0Szx1uc
Shawn has been an affiliate marketer since 1997, and joined AdSense in
2003 after he found it to be a natural extension for monetizing his
websites. He wears a lot of different hats as an Internet marketer --
not only is Shawn the co-founder of the Affiliate Summit conference,
but he also runs the Affiliate Buyer's Guide and is an affiliate
himself.
Before AdSense, Shawn relied on running affiliate ads and selling
space on a CPM basis. This could be hit or miss, as he would manually
try to place ads that were the best fit. As his sites grew, he would
sometimes forget about a time-sensitive ad, and that ad slot would
become wasted space. "With the contextually served ads from AdSense,"
Shawn says, "my advertising is always fresh and spot on."
Shawn also blogs daily about affiliate marketing and maintains an
affiliate manager resource site. His audience is savvy, since they're
internet marketers as well, so he considers it essential that
targeted, relevant advertising is served up to his visitors. According
to Shawn, "AdSense is an ideal solution for my varied web properties,
and I work with AdSense for content, AdSense for search, referrals,
and video units."
As Shawn mentions in his video, one of the highlights of his day
(sometimes many times a day) is when he logs in to his AdSense
account. He likens it to holding a lottery ticket as he waits for his
daily earnings to be revealed. "I try to guess the daily total, based
on my past performance, which makes the whole process a little more
fun. When I experiment with new placements or have a particularly good
day with my traffic, it's always a thrill to see my milestones
measured in AdSense commission spikes."
Posted by Ryan Hayward - AdSense Product Marketing
Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 2:11:00 PM
From: Inside AdSense
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/e93936abc93dbc0f?hl=en
Here's another AdSense Story Contest submission, this time from
internet entrepreneur Shawn Collins of New Jersey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OkN0Szx1uc
Shawn has been an affiliate marketer since 1997, and joined AdSense in
2003 after he found it to be a natural extension for monetizing his
websites. He wears a lot of different hats as an Internet marketer --
not only is Shawn the co-founder of the Affiliate Summit conference,
but he also runs the Affiliate Buyer's Guide and is an affiliate
himself.
Before AdSense, Shawn relied on running affiliate ads and selling
space on a CPM basis. This could be hit or miss, as he would manually
try to place ads that were the best fit. As his sites grew, he would
sometimes forget about a time-sensitive ad, and that ad slot would
become wasted space. "With the contextually served ads from AdSense,"
Shawn says, "my advertising is always fresh and spot on."
Shawn also blogs daily about affiliate marketing and maintains an
affiliate manager resource site. His audience is savvy, since they're
internet marketers as well, so he considers it essential that
targeted, relevant advertising is served up to his visitors. According
to Shawn, "AdSense is an ideal solution for my varied web properties,
and I work with AdSense for content, AdSense for search, referrals,
and video units."
As Shawn mentions in his video, one of the highlights of his day
(sometimes many times a day) is when he logs in to his AdSense
account. He likens it to holding a lottery ticket as he waits for his
daily earnings to be revealed. "I try to guess the daily total, based
on my past performance, which makes the whole process a little more
fun. When I experiment with new placements or have a particularly good
day with my traffic, it's always a thrill to see my milestones
measured in AdSense commission spikes."
Posted by Ryan Hayward - AdSense Product Marketing
Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 2:11:00 PM
TOPIC: A follow-up to our referrals announcement
Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 6:52 pm
From: Inside AdSense Team
You may have seen our recent post about the upcoming changes to
referrals promoting AdSense. Since we made this announcement, we've
received a number of responses about the program being dependent on the
location of the referring publisher. We've carefully considered your
feedback, and have decided to modify the original plan.The changes to
referrals promoting AdSense will now depend on where your users are
located, regardless of your location as a publisher. You'll earn $100
for every user you refer to AdSense who is located in North America,
Latin America or Japan when they generate $100 in AdSense revenue
within 180 days and they remove all payment holds. You'll no longer be
paid for users you refer who are located elsewhere. These changes will
go into effect the last week of January.The option to add a referral
unit for AdSense will reappear in your account when you target any
referral unit to Japan and/or any countries in North America and Latin
America. To ensure payment for valid conversions, we recommend that you
check the targeting settings on your current AdSense referral
units.We've also heard from a number of you that you're no longer
seeing recent AdSense referral earnings in your account. Please be
assured that this is a display error -- past conversions have not been
removed from your account. Our engineers are working hard to resolve
this issue quickly.Finally, we'd like to let you know about upcoming
changes to the referrals programs for Google Pack and Firefox:
- Google Pack: Currently, you can earn up to $2 when a user downloads
and runs Google Pack for the first time after being referred through
your link or button. Starting the third week of February, each
successful Pack referral will earn up to $1. This change will apply to
all referrals for Google Pack and is independent of user location or
publisher location.
- Firefox: We'll also be reducing payments for Firefox referrals from
China during the third week of February. This specific referral payment
change will only affect installations from users in China. Again, this
is independent of your location as a publisher. We understand that
these changes may decrease revenue for some of you currently
participating in these referrals programs. While it's our goal to help
publishers earn as much as possible with the AdSense program, like any
other referrals advertiser, we're constantly evaluating our campaigns
to make them effective and sustainable.Again, thank you for your
feedback and support of the referrals program.Posted by Talia Brodecki
- AdSense Product Marketing
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/18/2008 06:50:00 PM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/461e873896ed1548?hl=en
You may have seen our recent post about the upcoming changes to
referrals promoting AdSense. Since we made this announcement, we've
received a number of responses about the program being dependent on the
location of the referring publisher. We've carefully considered your
feedback, and have decided to modify the original plan.The changes to
referrals promoting AdSense will now depend on where your users are
located, regardless of your location as a publisher. You'll earn $100
for every user you refer to AdSense who is located in North America,
Latin America or Japan when they generate $100 in AdSense revenue
within 180 days and they remove all payment holds. You'll no longer be
paid for users you refer who are located elsewhere. These changes will
go into effect the last week of January.The option to add a referral
unit for AdSense will reappear in your account when you target any
referral unit to Japan and/or any countries in North America and Latin
America. To ensure payment for valid conversions, we recommend that you
check the targeting settings on your current AdSense referral
units.We've also heard from a number of you that you're no longer
seeing recent AdSense referral earnings in your account. Please be
assured that this is a display error -- past conversions have not been
removed from your account. Our engineers are working hard to resolve
this issue quickly.Finally, we'd like to let you know about upcoming
changes to the referrals programs for Google Pack and Firefox:
- Google Pack: Currently, you can earn up to $2 when a user downloads
and runs Google Pack for the first time after being referred through
your link or button. Starting the third week of February, each
successful Pack referral will earn up to $1. This change will apply to
all referrals for Google Pack and is independent of user location or
publisher location.
- Firefox: We'll also be reducing payments for Firefox referrals from
China during the third week of February. This specific referral payment
change will only affect installations from users in China. Again, this
is independent of your location as a publisher. We understand that
these changes may decrease revenue for some of you currently
participating in these referrals programs. While it's our goal to help
publishers earn as much as possible with the AdSense program, like any
other referrals advertiser, we're constantly evaluating our campaigns
to make them effective and sustainable.Again, thank you for your
feedback and support of the referrals program.Posted by Talia Brodecki
- AdSense Product Marketing
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/18/2008 06:50:00 PM
TOPIC: Engaging users with policy-compliant images and video
Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 11:03am
From: Inside AdSense Team
As it's becoming easier and easier to embed videos and pictures on
websites, many publishers are now enhancing their current text content
with relevant videos and photos. We wholeheartedly support adding these
different forms of content to improve the user experience on your site
-- hey, we like watching entertaining YouTube videos too! But here's a
friendly reminder about keeping our program policies in mind when you
choose video and image content for your site.Before posting videos or
pictures on a page with Google ads, put yourself in an advertiser's
position and consider whether you would want to have your ad displayed
on the page. If your content might potentially be seen as offensive or
disturbing, an advertiser may not be comfortable running their ads on
that page. Here are a few specific types of content that you can check
for:
- Adult or mature: Includes, but is not limited to, images and videos
containing sexual activity, full nudity, and lewd poses. Please review
this recent post to determine whether your content might fall into this
category.
- Violent or gory: Can include images and videos of street-fighting,
people hurting each other, or gruesome accidents and their victims.
- Culturally insensitive or hate speech: Includes content promoting
racial intolerance or advocating against a specific individual, group,
or organization.Also, keep in mind that publishers may not place
AdSense ads on pages involved in the unauthorized distribution of
copyrighted materials. Unauthorized copyrighted materials include
music, movies, images, or any other copyrighted material that the
publisher does not own or license from the copyright owner.The list
above is by no means exhaustive, since there are always some borderline
cases which will feature content that may be tame to one person but
offensive to another. If you're uncertain about specific pictures or
videos, we recommend that you err on the side of caution and refrain
from placing this content on pages containing Google ads. In addition,
if you host a site with user-generated content, we ask that you
continually monitor your network to ensure that ads don't appear
alongside the types of content described here.Posted by Dan Zilic -
AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/16/2008 11:03:00 AM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/d298d981f3dca135?hl=en
As it's becoming easier and easier to embed videos and pictures on
websites, many publishers are now enhancing their current text content
with relevant videos and photos. We wholeheartedly support adding these
different forms of content to improve the user experience on your site
-- hey, we like watching entertaining YouTube videos too! But here's a
friendly reminder about keeping our program policies in mind when you
choose video and image content for your site.Before posting videos or
pictures on a page with Google ads, put yourself in an advertiser's
position and consider whether you would want to have your ad displayed
on the page. If your content might potentially be seen as offensive or
disturbing, an advertiser may not be comfortable running their ads on
that page. Here are a few specific types of content that you can check
for:
- Adult or mature: Includes, but is not limited to, images and videos
containing sexual activity, full nudity, and lewd poses. Please review
this recent post to determine whether your content might fall into this
category.
- Violent or gory: Can include images and videos of street-fighting,
people hurting each other, or gruesome accidents and their victims.
- Culturally insensitive or hate speech: Includes content promoting
racial intolerance or advocating against a specific individual, group,
or organization.Also, keep in mind that publishers may not place
AdSense ads on pages involved in the unauthorized distribution of
copyrighted materials. Unauthorized copyrighted materials include
music, movies, images, or any other copyrighted material that the
publisher does not own or license from the copyright owner.The list
above is by no means exhaustive, since there are always some borderline
cases which will feature content that may be tame to one person but
offensive to another. If you're uncertain about specific pictures or
videos, we recommend that you err on the side of caution and refrain
from placing this content on pages containing Google ads. In addition,
if you host a site with user-generated content, we ask that you
continually monitor your network to ensure that ads don't appear
alongside the types of content described here.Posted by Dan Zilic -
AdSense Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/16/2008 11:03:00 AM
TOPIC: Sounds of success for Buenamusica
Date: Thurs, Jan 10 2008 2:23pm
From: Inside AdSense Team
In just three years, Manuel Treto's Buenamusica.com has become quite a
successful enterprise. A U.S. based Spanish-language site dedicated to
everything associated with music, Buenamusica.com now receives around
100,000 unique visitors per day from users around the world.When Manuel
first started, he knew he needed an ad network that would deliver both
English and Spanish ads relevant to his U.S. Hispanic and Latin
American visitors -- a one-stop shop with domestic and international
inventory. "This was one of our biggest hurdles for monetizing the
website," Manuel says. "Several of the networks I tried billed
themselves as 'Hispanic networks', but after testing fifteen different
ad networks on our site, we were happiest with AdSense. AdSense is
better for Hispanic publishers because it usually outperforms all other
ad networks by at least 50 percent in earnings, even those ad networks
that are specifically targeted toward Hispanic sites."With a staff of
only five people, Manuel and his colleagues wanted a product that could
adapt to their needs without requiring significant development
resources. "The product's flexibility in terms of customization options
is its most impressive feature," says Manuel. "What has worked the best
for me is incorporating colors that are already associated with the
site. We try to customize everything so that it matches the look and
feel of the site, and users have commented on how nicely the ads fit
into the page."Manuel now employs AdSense ads on 100 percent of his
pages. He also offers his users the ability to navigate through his
site with the Google Custom Search Engine, which he has linked to his
AdSense account. This has allowed him to monetize his search results
and to generate additional revenue for the site. "The more exposure you
give to Google the more money you are going to make, and every little
bit adds up. I strongly recommend using other Google products. Using
the Custom Search Engine feature is bringing a little bit of Google
technology to your website, and you can't beat that."If you'd like to
share your own success story with us, please fill out our
questionnaire. If you're not yet an AdSense publisher and would like to
get started with Manuel's suggestions, you can submit an application
today. Posted by Meridith Major - AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/10/2008 02:19:00 PM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/d3bef7331a2561ab?hl=en
In just three years, Manuel Treto's Buenamusica.com has become quite a
successful enterprise. A U.S. based Spanish-language site dedicated to
everything associated with music, Buenamusica.com now receives around
100,000 unique visitors per day from users around the world.When Manuel
first started, he knew he needed an ad network that would deliver both
English and Spanish ads relevant to his U.S. Hispanic and Latin
American visitors -- a one-stop shop with domestic and international
inventory. "This was one of our biggest hurdles for monetizing the
website," Manuel says. "Several of the networks I tried billed
themselves as 'Hispanic networks', but after testing fifteen different
ad networks on our site, we were happiest with AdSense. AdSense is
better for Hispanic publishers because it usually outperforms all other
ad networks by at least 50 percent in earnings, even those ad networks
that are specifically targeted toward Hispanic sites."With a staff of
only five people, Manuel and his colleagues wanted a product that could
adapt to their needs without requiring significant development
resources. "The product's flexibility in terms of customization options
is its most impressive feature," says Manuel. "What has worked the best
for me is incorporating colors that are already associated with the
site. We try to customize everything so that it matches the look and
feel of the site, and users have commented on how nicely the ads fit
into the page."Manuel now employs AdSense ads on 100 percent of his
pages. He also offers his users the ability to navigate through his
site with the Google Custom Search Engine, which he has linked to his
AdSense account. This has allowed him to monetize his search results
and to generate additional revenue for the site. "The more exposure you
give to Google the more money you are going to make, and every little
bit adds up. I strongly recommend using other Google products. Using
the Custom Search Engine feature is bringing a little bit of Google
technology to your website, and you can't beat that."If you'd like to
share your own success story with us, please fill out our
questionnaire. If you're not yet an AdSense publisher and would like to
get started with Manuel's suggestions, you can submit an application
today. Posted by Meridith Major - AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/10/2008 02:19:00 PM
TOPIC: Upcoming referrals changes
Date: Tues, Jan 8 2008 12:43pm
From: Inside AdSense Team
Are you currently displaying a referral unit for AdSense on your
website? Then read on, because there are some upcoming changes to the
referral program that you should be aware of. But first let me clarify
that only referral units promoting AdSense will be affected by this
change; referrals to other products and services remain unaffected at
this time. This change to referrals promoting AdSense will differ
depending on your location, regardless of where your users are
located.- If you're in North America, Latin America, or Japan, the
pricing structure for AdSense referrals is changing.About a year ago,
as an experiment, we changed the pricing structure for AdSense
referrals so that when a user you referred to the program earned $5
within 180 days of sign-up, you would also earn $5. When that publisher
earned $100 within 180 days and removed all payment holds, you'd
receive $250. We have decided to conclude this experiment and return to
the original pricing structure. As a result, we'll soon no longer be
offering the $5 bonus or $2000 bonus, and the payout for referring a
user who generates $100 with AdSense in the first 180 days will return
to $100.These pricing changes will take place during the last week of
January. A referred user who reaches $100 within 180 days of signing up
and who removes all payments holds before the change occurs will
generate earnings of $250 for the referring publisher. Any referred
user who meets this conversion criteria after the change occurs will
only generate $100 in earnings for the referring publisher. In
addition, the $5 bonus will be removed at that time. Please note that
the date a user was referred will only affect where the 180-day window
is set but not necessarily the payout the referring publisher receives.
For example, it's possible that a user referred in early January will
meet the conversion criteria before a user referred in early November,
and so the resulting payout may differ.- If you're outside of North
America, Latin America, and Japan, AdSense referrals will be
retired.For publishers not located in any of the three regions detailed
above, we'll soon be retiring referrals promoting AdSense. We've found
that this referral product has not performed as well as we had hoped in
these regions. Again, please keep in mind that you can still generate
referrals for the other products listed under the 'Referrals' section
of your AdSense Setup tab.Soon, you'll no longer see the option to
create a referral button for AdSense in your account, although existing
buttons will display as normal. This specific referral type will then
be retired during the last week of January - any users who meet the
conversion criteria (reaching $100 in earnings within 180 days of
sign-up and removing all payment holds) before the change will generate
earnings of $250 for the referring publishers. Any conversions which
occur after this change is made will not be recorded in your account.
You may wish to begin replacing any existing referrals promoting
AdSense with referrals for another product or an AdSense for content
unit.We appreciate your support of this referral product, and hope it
won't cause you any inconvenience.Posted by Talia Brodecki - AdSense
Product Marketing
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/08/2008 12:43:00 PM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/02b1cebb24a20459?hl=en
Are you currently displaying a referral unit for AdSense on your
website? Then read on, because there are some upcoming changes to the
referral program that you should be aware of. But first let me clarify
that only referral units promoting AdSense will be affected by this
change; referrals to other products and services remain unaffected at
this time. This change to referrals promoting AdSense will differ
depending on your location, regardless of where your users are
located.- If you're in North America, Latin America, or Japan, the
pricing structure for AdSense referrals is changing.About a year ago,
as an experiment, we changed the pricing structure for AdSense
referrals so that when a user you referred to the program earned $5
within 180 days of sign-up, you would also earn $5. When that publisher
earned $100 within 180 days and removed all payment holds, you'd
receive $250. We have decided to conclude this experiment and return to
the original pricing structure. As a result, we'll soon no longer be
offering the $5 bonus or $2000 bonus, and the payout for referring a
user who generates $100 with AdSense in the first 180 days will return
to $100.These pricing changes will take place during the last week of
January. A referred user who reaches $100 within 180 days of signing up
and who removes all payments holds before the change occurs will
generate earnings of $250 for the referring publisher. Any referred
user who meets this conversion criteria after the change occurs will
only generate $100 in earnings for the referring publisher. In
addition, the $5 bonus will be removed at that time. Please note that
the date a user was referred will only affect where the 180-day window
is set but not necessarily the payout the referring publisher receives.
For example, it's possible that a user referred in early January will
meet the conversion criteria before a user referred in early November,
and so the resulting payout may differ.- If you're outside of North
America, Latin America, and Japan, AdSense referrals will be
retired.For publishers not located in any of the three regions detailed
above, we'll soon be retiring referrals promoting AdSense. We've found
that this referral product has not performed as well as we had hoped in
these regions. Again, please keep in mind that you can still generate
referrals for the other products listed under the 'Referrals' section
of your AdSense Setup tab.Soon, you'll no longer see the option to
create a referral button for AdSense in your account, although existing
buttons will display as normal. This specific referral type will then
be retired during the last week of January - any users who meet the
conversion criteria (reaching $100 in earnings within 180 days of
sign-up and removing all payment holds) before the change will generate
earnings of $250 for the referring publishers. Any conversions which
occur after this change is made will not be recorded in your account.
You may wish to begin replacing any existing referrals promoting
AdSense with referrals for another product or an AdSense for content
unit.We appreciate your support of this referral product, and hope it
won't cause you any inconvenience.Posted by Talia Brodecki - AdSense
Product Marketing
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/08/2008 12:43:00 PM
TOPIC: Ring in the new year with Newbie Central
Date: Wed, Jan 2 2008 12:50pm
From: Inside AdSense Team
We're excited to introduce you to Newbie Central, our complete resource
for new publishers, now live in our Help Center.We know there's a lot
to learn when you're just starting out with AdSense, so we boiled the
program down to the basics for our beginners. In Newbie Central, you'll
find a walk-through of the initial steps getting started, from
familiarizing yourself with your account to placing ads on your site to
receiving your very first payment. We've also included some brief
guides to help you get acquainted with our various features, policies,
and tools.One highlight is the Earnings and Expectations pages, which
provide insight into how much you can expect to earn and you can do to
influence your earnings. Whether you're considering applying and
curious about potential revenue, or you're an existing publisher and
want to boost your current earnings, the Earnings and Expectations
section can help.For you AdSense veterans out there, feel free to point
your friends who've been on the fence about joining to Newbie Central,
or even use it as a way to brush up on the basics for yourself!Posted
by Vineesha Malkani - AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/02/2008 12:50:00 PM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/b22f9927c67981dd?hl=en
We're excited to introduce you to Newbie Central, our complete resource
for new publishers, now live in our Help Center.We know there's a lot
to learn when you're just starting out with AdSense, so we boiled the
program down to the basics for our beginners. In Newbie Central, you'll
find a walk-through of the initial steps getting started, from
familiarizing yourself with your account to placing ads on your site to
receiving your very first payment. We've also included some brief
guides to help you get acquainted with our various features, policies,
and tools.One highlight is the Earnings and Expectations pages, which
provide insight into how much you can expect to earn and you can do to
influence your earnings. Whether you're considering applying and
curious about potential revenue, or you're an existing publisher and
want to boost your current earnings, the Earnings and Expectations
section can help.For you AdSense veterans out there, feel free to point
your friends who've been on the fence about joining to Newbie Central,
or even use it as a way to brush up on the basics for yourself!Posted
by Vineesha Malkani - AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 1/02/2008 12:50:00 PM
TOPIC: Introducing the Ad Review Center
Date: Thurs, Dec 13 2007 2:36 pm
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/555064a841d6732b?hl=en
In an effort to provide you with more transparency and control over the
ads appearing on your pages, we've developed the Ad Review Center. This
new feature, which we'll be rolling out to publishers over the next few
months, will allow you to review ads placement-targeted to your site
and ensure those ads are relevant to your site's users.When you first
opt into the Ad Review Center, you'll be able to see all
placement-targeted ads currently targeted to your site, and a couple of
days later you'll be able to review placement-targeted ads that have
previously run on your site. If you think an ad is not relevant for
your users, you can prevent it from appearing again by blocking it in
the Ad Review Center. We recommend you carefully consider the revenue
impact of blocking an ad, since blocked ads won't compete in the
auction on your site, and advertisers whose ads you block may choose
not to target your site again in the future. In addition to letting
publishers weigh in on the relevance of placement-targeted ads, the Ad
Review Center will also help advertisers improve their
placement-targeted ad campaigns. When you block an ad, you'll be
prompted to select a reason. We'll share this constructive feedback
with advertisers so they can use it to improve the quality and
relevance of future ad campaigns.As we've done with past features,
we're gradually launching the Ad Review Center to all publishers over
the next few months. When it has been enabled for your account, you'll
see a green notification box at the top of your 'Competitive Ad Filter'
page, located under the 'AdSense Setup' tab. By default, the Ad Review
Center will let you review all placement-targeted ads after they have
run on your site. However, if you have a strong need to manually review
ads before they appear on your site, you may do so by clicking on
the 'update settings' link in the Ad Review Center. You'll then have 24
hours to review ads before they are automatically allowed to run on
your site. Please note that you can also return to the Ad Review Center
and allow a previously blocked ad, or block a previously allowed ad.We
strongly recommend you keep your review preference set to 'auto-allow'
and review ads after they have run. Ads don't participate in the
auction while they are awaiting review, and ads that you have blocked
cannot compete in the auction either. The actual revenue impact will
vary in each publisher's situation, but when using the Ad Review
Center, please consider the revenue effects of blocking ads or
switching from the auto-allow setting.To learn more about the Ad Review
Center, please visit the Help Center. We hope you find this new feature
useful and look forward to hearing your feedback.Posted by Katie Mandel
- AdSense Product Marketing
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 12/13/2007 02:36:00
PM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/555064a841d6732b?hl=en
In an effort to provide you with more transparency and control over the
ads appearing on your pages, we've developed the Ad Review Center. This
new feature, which we'll be rolling out to publishers over the next few
months, will allow you to review ads placement-targeted to your site
and ensure those ads are relevant to your site's users.When you first
opt into the Ad Review Center, you'll be able to see all
placement-targeted ads currently targeted to your site, and a couple of
days later you'll be able to review placement-targeted ads that have
previously run on your site. If you think an ad is not relevant for
your users, you can prevent it from appearing again by blocking it in
the Ad Review Center. We recommend you carefully consider the revenue
impact of blocking an ad, since blocked ads won't compete in the
auction on your site, and advertisers whose ads you block may choose
not to target your site again in the future. In addition to letting
publishers weigh in on the relevance of placement-targeted ads, the Ad
Review Center will also help advertisers improve their
placement-targeted ad campaigns. When you block an ad, you'll be
prompted to select a reason. We'll share this constructive feedback
with advertisers so they can use it to improve the quality and
relevance of future ad campaigns.As we've done with past features,
we're gradually launching the Ad Review Center to all publishers over
the next few months. When it has been enabled for your account, you'll
see a green notification box at the top of your 'Competitive Ad Filter'
page, located under the 'AdSense Setup' tab. By default, the Ad Review
Center will let you review all placement-targeted ads after they have
run on your site. However, if you have a strong need to manually review
ads before they appear on your site, you may do so by clicking on
the 'update settings' link in the Ad Review Center. You'll then have 24
hours to review ads before they are automatically allowed to run on
your site. Please note that you can also return to the Ad Review Center
and allow a previously blocked ad, or block a previously allowed ad.We
strongly recommend you keep your review preference set to 'auto-allow'
and review ads after they have run. Ads don't participate in the
auction while they are awaiting review, and ads that you have blocked
cannot compete in the auction either. The actual revenue impact will
vary in each publisher's situation, but when using the Ad Review
Center, please consider the revenue effects of blocking ads or
switching from the auto-allow setting.To learn more about the Ad Review
Center, please visit the Help Center. We hope you find this new feature
useful and look forward to hearing your feedback.Posted by Katie Mandel
- AdSense Product Marketing
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 12/13/2007 02:36:00
PM
TOPIC: Video units coming to the UK, Ireland and Canada
Date: Mon, Nov 19 2007 11:21 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/343c06a1cbd080a9?hl=en
Following their success in the U.S., we're rolling out video units over
the next several days to English-language publishers in the UK,
Ireland, and Canada. If you're not already familiar with video units,
they're embedded, customizable video players that can enrich your site
with relevant video content while enabling you to earn extra revenue
from the relevant, non-intrusive ads that accompany the videos.With
this new launch, publishers in the UK, Ireland and Canada will be able
to show videos from our YouTube content partners and choose those
videos by category, individual YouTube partner, or have video
automatically targeted to their site. Based on publisher feedback,
we've also just added a feature which lets you choose individual videos
to be displayed in your video units.To set up video units on your site,
log in to your AdSense account and visit the AdSense Setup page. For
more information about video units, please feel free to revisit our
original post about the launch and our recent follow-up answering some
of your most common questions. In addition, you might find the
information in our Help Center useful.If you don't yet see video units
in your account, please check back over the next few days. We're
staggering the roll-out to ensure a smooth launch in the new countries
where video units are available.Posted by Terrence Rohan and Ryan
Hayward - AdSense Product Marketing
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 11/19/2007 11:21:00
AM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/343c06a1cbd080a9?hl=en
Following their success in the U.S., we're rolling out video units over
the next several days to English-language publishers in the UK,
Ireland, and Canada. If you're not already familiar with video units,
they're embedded, customizable video players that can enrich your site
with relevant video content while enabling you to earn extra revenue
from the relevant, non-intrusive ads that accompany the videos.With
this new launch, publishers in the UK, Ireland and Canada will be able
to show videos from our YouTube content partners and choose those
videos by category, individual YouTube partner, or have video
automatically targeted to their site. Based on publisher feedback,
we've also just added a feature which lets you choose individual videos
to be displayed in your video units.To set up video units on your site,
log in to your AdSense account and visit the AdSense Setup page. For
more information about video units, please feel free to revisit our
original post about the launch and our recent follow-up answering some
of your most common questions. In addition, you might find the
information in our Help Center useful.If you don't yet see video units
in your account, please check back over the next few days. We're
staggering the roll-out to ensure a smooth launch in the new countries
where video units are available.Posted by Terrence Rohan and Ryan
Hayward - AdSense Product Marketing
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 11/19/2007 11:21:00
AM
TOPIC: Site maintenance on November 10th at 10 am
Date: Fri, Nov 9 2007 1:32 pm
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/6f0e6c8f3b8664a0?hl=en
Tomorrow, November 10th, our engineers will be performing routine site
maintenance. Although you won't be able to log in to your account
between 10 am and 2 pm PST, we'll continue to serve ads to your pages
and track all earnings in your account as usual.Our international
readers can expect the maintenance to start at the following
times:London - 6 pm SaturdayKiev - 8 pm SaturdayChennai - 11:30 pm
SaturdayManila - 2 am SundayMelbourne - 5 am SundaySome of you have
been curious about what our engineers are up to during these
maintenance periods. As you can imagine, running the system reliably
requires constant nurturing. Some maintenance tasks are more
fundamental to the way the system operates and are not easily done on
the fly -- as a result, it's most efficient and helpful for us to take
the system offline for a few hours. With that in mind, our engineers
line up these tasks in advance and implement them during our regularly
scheduled downtimes. We hope that these maintenance periods aren't too
much of an inconvenience, and we appreciate your understanding.Posted
by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 11/09/2007 01:31:00
PM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/6f0e6c8f3b8664a0?hl=en
Tomorrow, November 10th, our engineers will be performing routine site
maintenance. Although you won't be able to log in to your account
between 10 am and 2 pm PST, we'll continue to serve ads to your pages
and track all earnings in your account as usual.Our international
readers can expect the maintenance to start at the following
times:London - 6 pm SaturdayKiev - 8 pm SaturdayChennai - 11:30 pm
SaturdayManila - 2 am SundayMelbourne - 5 am SundaySome of you have
been curious about what our engineers are up to during these
maintenance periods. As you can imagine, running the system reliably
requires constant nurturing. Some maintenance tasks are more
fundamental to the way the system operates and are not easily done on
the fly -- as a result, it's most efficient and helpful for us to take
the system offline for a few hours. With that in mind, our engineers
line up these tasks in advance and implement them during our regularly
scheduled downtimes. We hope that these maintenance periods aren't too
much of an inconvenience, and we appreciate your understanding.Posted
by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 11/09/2007 01:31:00
PM
TOPIC: An update on channel reports
Date: Thurs, Nov 1 2007 10:09 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/c649dd425aba5260?hl=en
We'd like to provide you with an update on the recent channels issue --
our engineers have been working to provide publishers with their
missing data, and you should see this data in your account by early
next week. Thanks again for your patience!Posted by Arlene Lee -
AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 11/01/2007 10:08:00
AM
From: Inside AdSense Team
http://groups.google.com/group/Inside-AdSense/browse_thread/thread/c649dd425aba5260?hl=en
We'd like to provide you with an update on the recent channels issue --
our engineers have been working to provide publishers with their
missing data, and you should see this data in your account by early
next week. Thanks again for your patience!Posted by Arlene Lee -
AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 11/01/2007 10:08:00
AM
TOPIC: Celebrating Blog Action Day with Mongabay
Date: Mon, Oct 15 2007 11:10 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
It's Blog Action Day, a day when bloggers around the world take time to
write about the environment. So, we thought it would be fitting to
feature an AdSense publisher who has focused their site on increasing
awareness and appreciation of the environment -- specifically, wild
lands and wildlife.Mongabay.com, run by Rhett Butler, originally
focused on providing information about tropical rainforests, a topic
Rhett is personally familiar with through his travels to a Borneo
rainforest that has since been destroyed. In recent years, however, the
site has expanded to include environmental news on numerous topics
ranging from climate change to green business. He's also added a kids'
version of the site aimed to spark interest in youngsters to learn
about and appreciate rainforests. Rhett hopes through his work with
Mongabay that more people will become aware of the beauty and
importance of the environment so they'll be motivated to preserve our
remaining biodiversity for the future. On Mongabay.com, Rhett describes
the concept of TREES, which are five basic steps we can take to saving
rainforests: Teach others about the importance of the environment and
how they can help save rainforests.Restore damaged ecosystems by
planting trees on land where forests have been cut down.Encourage
people to live in a way that doesn't hurt the environment.Establish
parks to protect rainforests and wildlife.Support companies that
operate in ways that minimize damage to the environment.The revenue
Rhett's sites generate through AdSense has allowed him to quit his 9-5
job and focus on growing his environmental effort: traveling around the
world to gain a connection to the efforts he is passionate about,
garnering hands-on experiences, and looking for conservation
opportunities. This travel also enables him to take these experiences
and add valuable content to his website and further educate his
readers.Thanks, Rhett, for raising awareness about the importance of
rainforests both to the global ecosystem and to people
everywhere.Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 10/15/2007 11:09:00
AM
From: Inside AdSense Team
It's Blog Action Day, a day when bloggers around the world take time to
write about the environment. So, we thought it would be fitting to
feature an AdSense publisher who has focused their site on increasing
awareness and appreciation of the environment -- specifically, wild
lands and wildlife.Mongabay.com, run by Rhett Butler, originally
focused on providing information about tropical rainforests, a topic
Rhett is personally familiar with through his travels to a Borneo
rainforest that has since been destroyed. In recent years, however, the
site has expanded to include environmental news on numerous topics
ranging from climate change to green business. He's also added a kids'
version of the site aimed to spark interest in youngsters to learn
about and appreciate rainforests. Rhett hopes through his work with
Mongabay that more people will become aware of the beauty and
importance of the environment so they'll be motivated to preserve our
remaining biodiversity for the future. On Mongabay.com, Rhett describes
the concept of TREES, which are five basic steps we can take to saving
rainforests: Teach others about the importance of the environment and
how they can help save rainforests.Restore damaged ecosystems by
planting trees on land where forests have been cut down.Encourage
people to live in a way that doesn't hurt the environment.Establish
parks to protect rainforests and wildlife.Support companies that
operate in ways that minimize damage to the environment.The revenue
Rhett's sites generate through AdSense has allowed him to quit his 9-5
job and focus on growing his environmental effort: traveling around the
world to gain a connection to the efforts he is passionate about,
garnering hands-on experiences, and looking for conservation
opportunities. This travel also enables him to take these experiences
and add valuable content to his website and further educate his
readers.Thanks, Rhett, for raising awareness about the importance of
rainforests both to the global ecosystem and to people
everywhere.Posted by Julie Beckmann - AdSense Publisher Support
--
Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 10/15/2007 11:09:00
AM
TOPIC: The AdSense API on an e-commerce platform
Date: Thurs, Aug 30 2007 10:12 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
A few months ago, I mentioned how e-commerce sites could use AdSense to
increase their overall revenues without changing their current business
models. Today Zlio.com has taken it to the next level by using the
AdSense API to allow their users to implement this strategy.The core
service of Zlio is to allow internet users to create and run their own
internet shops. After a quick registration process, users can pick from
millions of products and earn commission on every item bought from
their ZlioShops. Aside from choosing their products, future shopowners
can select from a few different templates to give their shops the look
and feel they want. Finally, these shopowners can add text to describe
the products and highlight their favorites.Today, as added
functionality, Zlio users can also add Google ads to their shops. Very
much like what we currently offer via Blogger, users can pick shop
templates that already include AdSense ad units without ever having to
dig into the HTML code of their shop. We hope that this new API will
help bring AdSense to existing Zlio users, and also that current
AdSense publishers will try Zlio as a way to increase their current
AdSense revenue.The screenshot above shows an example of a shop
offering scuba diving items -- you might notice that two AdSense ad
units and one link unit have been placed on the page. From a revenue
perspective, 60% of all the revenue generated from AdSense will go to
the shopowner.If you wish to create your own shop and associate it with
your current AdSense account, you can visit Zlio.com and follow these
steps:
- Select a general template for your shop.
- Create your own shop by choosing among the available products.
AdSense for my shop.
- If you aren't an AdSense publisher yet, you can apply for an account
through Zlio. If you already have an AdSense account, enter your
AdSense e-mail address and your current zip code. Account Access.
- Go back to your ZlioShop, where you'll be able to view your products
and relevant Google Ads.If you wish to learn more about the AdSense API
and how you can use it to integrate AdSense sign-up and ad creation
into your site, visit the AdSense API website.Posted by Etienne Jambou
- AdSense Optimization Team
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/30/2007 10:12:00 AM
From: Inside AdSense Team
A few months ago, I mentioned how e-commerce sites could use AdSense to
increase their overall revenues without changing their current business
models. Today Zlio.com has taken it to the next level by using the
AdSense API to allow their users to implement this strategy.The core
service of Zlio is to allow internet users to create and run their own
internet shops. After a quick registration process, users can pick from
millions of products and earn commission on every item bought from
their ZlioShops. Aside from choosing their products, future shopowners
can select from a few different templates to give their shops the look
and feel they want. Finally, these shopowners can add text to describe
the products and highlight their favorites.Today, as added
functionality, Zlio users can also add Google ads to their shops. Very
much like what we currently offer via Blogger, users can pick shop
templates that already include AdSense ad units without ever having to
dig into the HTML code of their shop. We hope that this new API will
help bring AdSense to existing Zlio users, and also that current
AdSense publishers will try Zlio as a way to increase their current
AdSense revenue.The screenshot above shows an example of a shop
offering scuba diving items -- you might notice that two AdSense ad
units and one link unit have been placed on the page. From a revenue
perspective, 60% of all the revenue generated from AdSense will go to
the shopowner.If you wish to create your own shop and associate it with
your current AdSense account, you can visit Zlio.com and follow these
steps:
- Select a general template for your shop.
- Create your own shop by choosing among the available products.
AdSense for my shop.
- If you aren't an AdSense publisher yet, you can apply for an account
through Zlio. If you already have an AdSense account, enter your
AdSense e-mail address and your current zip code. Account Access.
- Go back to your ZlioShop, where you'll be able to view your products
and relevant Google Ads.If you wish to learn more about the AdSense API
and how you can use it to integrate AdSense sign-up and ad creation
into your site, visit the AdSense API website.Posted by Etienne Jambou
- AdSense Optimization Team
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/30/2007 10:12:00 AM
TOPIC: Referrals reluctant to appear?
Date: Tues, Aug 28 2007 9:40 am
From: Inside AdSense Team
We've heard that many publishers are having trouble viewing referral
2.0 ads on their pages, and we'd like to explain some of the most
common reasons why this might be.First, keep in mind that not all
referral ads are available in all sizes. For instance, most horizontal
referral ad units smaller than 180x60, square referral ad units smaller
than 125x125, and text links are only available at this time for Google
products such as AdSense or AdWords. This means that if you generate
code for referral ads in an unsupported size, you won't see any
referrals shown on your webpages. To avoid this issue, we recommend
first selecting categories or products for your referrals before
selecting a size at this time.Similarly, you may not see the referral
ads you've selected on your pages if you've grouped a number of
referral ads into your Ad Shopping Cart which are each available in
different sizes. If this is the case, you may wish to try regenerating
your referral code with a particular ad format in mind -- this way, you
can be sure to select products available in that format.Here are
several other reasons your chosen referral ads may not show:
- The particular referral ad you've chosen is not available in your
country. When generating your code, you can view the ads available for
specific countries by clicking the 'change' link above the referrals
wizard.
- You've unselected the 'Pick best performing ads' checkbox for a
referral where the advertiser has run out of budget or ended the
campaign. To take advantage of the available inventory of related
products, we recommend leaving this box checked.
- You've added more than three referral units to your page. Our current
policy allows a maximum of three referral ad units on any
policy-compliant page.
- Our system has determined that your pages contain potentially mature
or sensitive content. However, as your content changes, you may begin
to see referral ads appearing.
- The referral ad code may have been modified. Be sure to copy the code
exactly as it appears in your account and paste it directly onto your
pages.Please know that we're working as quickly as we can to fine-tune
the process of generating referral code. Also, we appreciate all of
your feedback on referrals 2.0 so far, and we encourage you to let us
know how we can keep improving AdSense.Posted by Rajiv Sud - AdSense
Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/28/2007 09:40:00 AM
From: Inside AdSense Team
We've heard that many publishers are having trouble viewing referral
2.0 ads on their pages, and we'd like to explain some of the most
common reasons why this might be.First, keep in mind that not all
referral ads are available in all sizes. For instance, most horizontal
referral ad units smaller than 180x60, square referral ad units smaller
than 125x125, and text links are only available at this time for Google
products such as AdSense or AdWords. This means that if you generate
code for referral ads in an unsupported size, you won't see any
referrals shown on your webpages. To avoid this issue, we recommend
first selecting categories or products for your referrals before
selecting a size at this time.Similarly, you may not see the referral
ads you've selected on your pages if you've grouped a number of
referral ads into your Ad Shopping Cart which are each available in
different sizes. If this is the case, you may wish to try regenerating
your referral code with a particular ad format in mind -- this way, you
can be sure to select products available in that format.Here are
several other reasons your chosen referral ads may not show:
- The particular referral ad you've chosen is not available in your
country. When generating your code, you can view the ads available for
specific countries by clicking the 'change' link above the referrals
wizard.
- You've unselected the 'Pick best performing ads' checkbox for a
referral where the advertiser has run out of budget or ended the
campaign. To take advantage of the available inventory of related
products, we recommend leaving this box checked.
- You've added more than three referral units to your page. Our current
policy allows a maximum of three referral ad units on any
policy-compliant page.
- Our system has determined that your pages contain potentially mature
or sensitive content. However, as your content changes, you may begin
to see referral ads appearing.
- The referral ad code may have been modified. Be sure to copy the code
exactly as it appears in your account and paste it directly onto your
pages.Please know that we're working as quickly as we can to fine-tune
the process of generating referral code. Also, we appreciate all of
your feedback on referrals 2.0 so far, and we encourage you to let us
know how we can keep improving AdSense.Posted by Rajiv Sud - AdSense
Publisher Support
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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/28/2007 09:40:00 AM
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