The AdSense team will be taking a bite out of the Big Apple next week, as members of our team attend the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York City on April 11-12. We hope those of you in New York (or just in a New York state of mind) will join us there. If you do attend, there are a number of informational sessions, including two with speakers from the AdSense team. (Check out the full schedule for Wednesday.)You’re also welcome to sto

Google has officially changed the look of AdSense ads and the most prominent type of AdWords ad, and the change isn’t going to be perfect for everyone.
First, Google has initiated the change in AdSense it has been working on for a while, removing the “Advertise on this site” link, moving “Ads by Google” to the bottom right-hand corner, and giving it a nicer graphical look. Here’s an example of the new look, v

You may have noticed that some of your ad units have started to look a little different lately — we’re happy to announce that, just in time for spring, we’ve given our standard ad units a fresh makeover. After extensive testing and research, we’ve found that the new formats are not only visually appealing to users, but they also perform even better for publishers and advertisers. We’re in the process of rolling out this change to all ad unit

If you’ve logged in to your account today, you’ve probably noticed the new ‘Recent messages’ section in your AdSense account. We’re happy to let you know that this is your personal inbox where we’ll send you customized optimization tips. More specifically, our system will automatically analyze your account and ad settings. Based on these findings, you’ll receive a notification each month in your AdSense account if there are changes you can make t

Google announced Google TV Ads Trial last night and said that they have been working with EchoStar (owner of DISH Network) and Astound Cable for sometimes now to “deliver better ads to viewers and help advertisers, operators and programmers more efficiently buy, schedule, deliver and measure ads on television”.
Deliver more relevant ads to viewers and provide better reporting for advertisers
Advances in set-top-box technologies make

Following our recent series of referrals announcements, we’re happy to announce that you can now earn $5 per referral for Google Apps.With Google Apps, we’ve taken Google’s most powerful communication and collaboration tools, and packaged them together so businesses, schools and other organizations can work more effectively while spending less time and money on IT systems. Google Apps provides customized email addresses (powered by Gmail), Google

We’re happy to introduce the newest member of the AdSense blog family — Inside AdSense: AdSense 공식 한국 블로그. Korean-speaking publishers can now look forward to reading the latest AdSense news and announcements in their own language. This new blog will also provide Korean-speaking publishers with localized case studies, answers to commonly asked questions, optimization tips, and posts from the Korean support team.Subscribe to the new

Google has added Google Apps as part of the AdSense Referral Program, a week after adding Google Checkout to the program and the announcing of the Pay Per Action program.
On the set up page, it says,
You will be credited [$5] when someone clicks your referral and signs up for Google Apps with a domain that has not already been signed up for the service. The domain must then have one or more Google Apps email accounts in use for four consecutive

When Google introduced AdSense API last May, it was only available to a limited amount of developers, but Inside AdSense blog announced today announced that it will be opened to qualified AdSense users!
Here are some of the possible benefits for using the API: Target contextual ads against users’ content.
Implement AdSense Referrals alongside users’ content.
Customize AdSense for Search boxes.
Generate detailed performance reports.

If you’re a web developer or host, you may remember that we introduced you to the AdSense API last May. With the AdSense API, your users can create their own AdSense accounts on your site, and display ads alongside the content that they have created. They can also manage their accounts and view ad performance and earnings reports, all on your site.In addition, you can enhance your customers’ user experience by helping them to make money from thei

In our 20 months of blog existence, we’ve published more than 270 posts geared towards AdSense publishers. There are a lot of useful updates and tips buried in our archives, and we want to make sure that you’re able to find all of this great content once it no longer appears on the blog. So we’re excited to tell you that we now feature labels at the bottom of every post and in our sidebar to better organize all of the blog’s content.If you’ve j

If you speak Chinese (or if you’re an avid blog reader), you may remember that we launched an AdSense Help Forum in Simplified Chinese back in September 2006. We’re happy to announce that the AdSense Help Forum is now also available in Traditional Chinese. There are over 1 billion Chinese speakers in the world, and we hope these two forums will allow our Chinese publishers to communicate in the most convenient manner.

Google AdSense has added a new referral product: Google Checkout. The way this one works is that if someone follows your referral ad/link and signs up for Checkout, and buys at least ten dollars within the next 90 days, you get a dollar.
Here are some of the ad formats (funny, no little buttons):
Text link:
Sign up for Google Checkout
Banners: Boxes: Leaderboards:

Google today added Checkout to the AdSense referral program, in addition of AdSense, AdWords, Firefox and Google Packs. The Inside AdSense Blog explains how the the new referral button works: You place the Checkout referral button on your site.
Someone clicks on the button, signs up as a buyer with Google Checkout using a valid U.S. credit card, and completes a purchase of at least $10 before shipping and tax through Checkout within 90 days. (T

I am so sick of the news on this blog being, on average, a week old. Its my fault. I let these tabs build and build and build, and I don’t have time to write because I’m too busy amassing tabs, and when I finally do write something, it’s a week old. Dammit! I am so not doing this anymore. I hate missing news, but it is beyond stupid to have late and irellevant news because you don’t want to miss anything.
And because

Today we’re excited to announce that in addition to AdSense, AdWords, Firefox with Google Toolbar, and Google Pack, you can now refer your users to Google Checkout through AdSense.Checkout gives your users a faster, safer, and more convenient way to shop online. OK, that sounds great for them, but what do you get out of it? Well, every time you refer a user to Google Checkout, you make a little money. It’s a simple process that includes all of th

The news have been around since last June, and is now official - the Inside AdWords Blog announced the launch of the beta testing of the Pay-Per-Action program and the Inside AdSense Blog say that they started accepting applications from the AdSense users who want to be part of the program.
[Pay-Per-Action] is considered the optimal form of buying online advertising from a direct response advertiser’s point of view. An advertiser only pays

Many of you already use referrals to direct users to your favorite Google products. Now, with our new referrals beta, you can select products and services from our base of AdWords advertisers. This is good news for those of you who have wanted to use referrals in the past, but couldn’t find a product to match your site’s content. With the referrals beta, you can search for products that match up directly with your site’s content. And you can cust

We recently caught up with Peter Clee, a publisher who has seen success with both AdSense and AdWords. Peter’s main site, LondonNet.co.uk, was launched in the summer of 1996 and offers a guide to arts, entertainment, city info, and news about London. Peter also runs www.hotelgenie.com and www.myflatincannes.com. We’d like to share some of Peter’s insights with you about monetising his sites with AdSense and his experience using AdWords to attract

As you may know, one of the steps to receiving your first payment is to verify a Personal Identification Number (PIN). We’ll send this PIN via standard postal mail once your earnings have reached $50, and then you’ll need to enter it into the PIN Information Page of your account.Many concerned publishers ask whether they’ll need to complete the PIN process more than once — such as before receiving every check, or every time they generate $50 in

Have you subscribed to the AdSense Calendar yet? If not, you may find that it’s a great way to keep track of things like Inside AdSense blogposts, upcoming site maintenance periods, and publisher events. We’ve also listed important payment dates each month, so you can remember to update your account before the 15th and quickly determine when to expect your next payment.The easiest way to subscribe is to add the AdSense Calendar to your own Google

In this technological world, it’s fairly common to have multiple email addresses. However, if you’d like to contact us, we encourage you to use the email address associated with your AdSense account — this is the email address you use to sign in.By doing so, you’ll help us quickly locate your account so that we can address your issue as soon as possible. This will also allow us to provide you with specific account information and continue to pr

After joining the AdSense program, new publishers often have questions about placing the AdSense code on their sites using design-enhanced editors. These include such editing software as Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Adobe GoLive, as well as online services like Google Page Creator and Yahoo! Sitebuilder. These applications allow you to edit your site without worrying about the HTML. For this reason, they’re frequently called W

As active web publishers, we know you’re working to build quality traffic so the world can see the great content you’ve created. Since many of you rely on listings in search engines for this traffic, we often receive email from publishers who have concerns about their site’s listing on Google.com.We’d like to let you know that to protect the integrity of our search results, your participation in AdSense won’t affect your site’s ranking or listing

If you visit www.the-gadgeteer.com, you’re likely to find a review of the newest, hippest gadget. For nearly a decade, Julie Strietelmeier has taken her fascination with consumer electronics to the masses, offering her opinions on the latest gadget accessories for readers to enjoy.Recently, Julie experimented with optimizing her link unit ad placement. She removed the existing 120×90 link unit from the uppermost right corner of her pages, and i

This week, we’ve launched AdSense for content in Hebrew. If you’re a publisher with a site primarily in Hebrew, feel free to begin displaying contextually-targeted ads on your pages by logging in to your account and generating your ad code under the AdSense Setup tab. As you may know, it can take up to 48 hours for our crawler to visit your site and determine which are relevant ads to display.Please know that we’re working on making AdSense f

Google has agreed to acquire Adscape, a company that puts ads inside of video games, for $23 million. Google had missed out on Massive, a company Microsoft picked up for $200-400 million about a year ago, and is going to have to settle for the much smaller Adscape, which it will have to build into a bigger player

If you’re looking for an easy way to add some interactivity to your site, we’ve got just the tool for you. The AJAX Search Wizards allow you to add a video, news, and local search results to your web page without writing any code. Just tell us how you want the widget to display and what searches to automatically execute, and the wizard will generate the code for you to copy and paste into your web page.Our newest wizard generates a news bar that