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Five steps to optimising your AdSense performance
Date : 2008 06 24
Inside AdSense"I want to improve my AdSense performance, but I don't know how to get started!"We hear you. The myriad of optimisation tools and options AdSense offers can be a bit overwhelming. Colors, placements, channels, ad sizes -- there are more options to choose from than you can poke a mouse cursor at! Ideally, we wish you could just click a button and have a fully optimised webpage published to the Internet. But until that magical day comes, we have a solution for you.The Australian AdSense team has read more »
Site maintenance on June 21 at 10am PDT
Date : 2008 06 20 Inside AdSenseTomorrow, our engineers will be performing site maintenance from 10am to 3pm PDT. You won't be able to access your account during this 5-hour time frame, but ad serving and ad targeting will not be affected. In addition, your reports will continue to track your earnings as usual. We've converted the maintenance start time for a few cities around the world:London - 6 pm SaturdayPretoria - 7 pm SaturdayMumbai - 10:30 pm SaturdayKuala Lumpur - 1 am SundayBrisbane - 3 am SundayIn the meantime, we h read more »
Game on for GameScene
Date : 2008 06 18 Inside AdSenseBack in 1995, Gary Rosenzweig published some of the world's first web-based games. Some of his early games as well as more than 100 created by CleverMedia, the company he later founded, are available at GameScene.com."Even in those early days, it was clear to us that web advertising was the best way to earn money from our content," says Gary. Revenue from ads offered him creative and financial freedom to be both a game developer and publisher. But the early ad banner market was volatile an read more »
Speaking the language of small businesses
Date : 2008 06 16 Inside AdSenseFollowing our recent testimony in front of the U.S. House Small Business Committee, we revisited Washington D.C. to deliver our first seminar for small businesses on the web -- specifically those in the Hispanic-American community. The Spanish-language seminar, co-sponsored by both the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the League of United Latin American Citizens, focused on making the most of AdSense and other Google tools to effectively and efficiently manage a small business online. We k read more »
Join us on July 10 for 'Powered By YouTube'
Date : 2008 06 12 Inside AdSenseYou can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. That's why our publishers know how important it is to make their sites sticky to keep users on their pages longer. If you're a savvy coder, love to build cool apps and mashups, and wonder what more you can do to enhance your website with video and increase the stickiness, then we'd like to cordially invite you to attend Powered By YouTube on Thursday, July 10!Powered By YouTube is our first-ever developer gathering focused on bringing toget read more »
The AdSense Pub(lisher) Crawl
Date : 2008 06 10 Inside AdSenseIt seems like every time I visit our AdSense colleagues in the Dublin office, I get invited out to celebrate a birthday or a promotion with that great Dublin tradition: the pub crawl. Today I'd like to dedicate a few words to another pub crawl. (I can hear your groans throughout the blogosphere.) That's right, I'm talking about the AdSense "publisher" crawl.As you may know, it's important to allow the AdSense crawler access to the pages that display your ads. If our crawler can't see the conten read more »
Site maintenance on June 7 at 10am PDT
Date : 2008 06 06 Inside AdSenseBy now, our longtime publishers are likely well-versed in our regular maintenance -- so sing along if you know the words: Our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance tomorrow, June 7th, from 10am to 2pm PDT. During these four hours, you won't be able to log in to your account. However, ad serving will not be affected, and your reports will continue to track your earnings as usual.We've noticed from past comments that many of you are concerned about public service ads (PSAs) or no read more »
Video units now available in Australia and Japan
Date : 2008 06 05 Inside AdSenseFollowing the success of video units in a number of international locations, we're excited to announce the launch of video units for English-language websites in Australia. In addition, video units are now available to publishers who are located in Japan or who have Japanese-language websites. If you're not already familiar, video units are embedded, customizable video players which both enrich sites with relevant video content and enable publishers to earn extra revenue. Relevant and non-intru read more »
What's my login again?
Date : 2008 06 03 Inside AdSenseAs we've mentioned on the blog before, your AdSense login is your ticket to accessing your account and receiving specific account information about your payments. But we know it can be difficult to keep track of all of those email addresses and online usernames -- whether they're for online banking, social networking, a retirement fund, or AdSense.If you do happen to forget which email address you used as your AdSense login, we can help look the information up for you -- just fill out our Help read more »
EFT launched in Hungary and Hong Kong
Date : 2008 05 29 Inside AdSenseWe're happy to announce that publishers located in Hungary and Hong Kong can now sign up to receive payments by Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). With EFT, your earnings will be directly deposited into your bank account so won't need to wait for checks to arrive in the mail and clear at the bank. Signing-up for EFT is a simple process, and just involves entering your bank account information, then verifying a small test deposit. Please keep in mind that all EFT payments will be made in your loca read more »
Inside AdSense, now in Traditional Chinese
Date : 2008 05 27 Inside AdSenseWe’re excited to let you know that Inside AdSense is now available in Traditional Chinese. The new blog, Inside AdSense: Google AdSense 中文網誌, caters to publishers in areas such as Taiwan and Hong Kong, and our Traditional Chinese team will use it to announce the latest product updates and news. In addition, we’ll be featuring local success stories and providing optimization tips to help improve your AdSense performance.Visit the new Traditional Chinese blog today, and don’t forget read more »
Make the move...to Google Accounts
Date : 2008 05 22 Inside AdSenseAs you may remember, we started asking publishers to update your AdSense accounts to Google Accounts last May. When you do that, you can manage all of your Google products using one login and password, and also take advantage of new features like Site Authentication and the recently improved AdSense for search.In the next few weeks, we'll soon be requiring all publishers to update to a Google Account. If you haven't yet updated your account, we recommend doing so as soon as possible to avoid an read more »