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Video mailbag: Theresa Chow answers your questions (www.gstories.com)

Theresa discusses the following:1. How many Google AdSense products can I use in each website?2. How do I get rid of an ad that I don’t want on my site? I have some disagreements with it.3. In case we would like to add other websites, do we need to create another AdSense account?UPDATED to provide summary of content

An ‘AdSense Help’-ing hand (www.gstories.com)

Since the AdSense Help Group launched, we noticed you’ve been having lots of interesting discussions about AdSense. We thought we’d address a couple questions that have come up fairly frequently in the Help Group.My website tracking software is registering more impressions than my AdSense account — why is there a discrepancy?To provide more accurate information about ad performance, we count impressions only when the AdSense JavaScript is execut

Earnings: Your questions answered (www.gstories.com)

Is there is a minimum number of impressions or clicks I need to get before I can start earning through AdSense?No, there’s no minimum number of impressions or clicks for generating earnings. You can start earning the very first time a user clicks on a cost-per-click (CPC) ad or views a cost-per-thousand-impressions (CPM) ad. Keep in mind, however, that you’ll need to earn $100 before your earnings will be paid out to you.If a CPM ad appears on my

eCPM — what exactly is that? (www.gstories.com)

eCPM is a bit of industry shorthand that seems here to stay. You’ve seen it listed in your AdSense reports; it means, “effective cost per thousand impressions.” So how is eCPM calculated, you ask?eCPM is calculated by dividing total earnings by total number of impressions in thousands. It is a great performance measure for your various ad units, so when experimenting, you can use eCPM to compare your results.But what if your site doesn’t receive

Nine for newbies (www.gstories.com)

Your AdSense application has just been approved, and you’ve got a world of new information to absorb. We’ve highlighted some key resources to answer all the questions you have about AdSense (but were afraid to ask).1. First, you can see our handy Quick Start guide to learn how to access your AdSense account and customize your ad code before pasting it into your site. For a more detailed walkthrough, see the Help with Ad Code demo.2. Once you’ve a

Good news for HTML newbies (www.gstories.com)

You’ve signed up for AdSense. You’ve activated your account. You’ve chosen your ad format and colors. Now you’re ready to paste your AdSense ad code into your site. Or are you? If you’re new to HTML, you might find it a bit challenging to add our code into the HTML source of your pages. (”HTML source–what’s that?”)Have no fear - our new Troubleshooting Demo is here! I’ve worked with other members of our support team to create an HTML Troubleshoo

From the Inside AdSense mail bag (www.gstories.com)

Rowland asks:I signed up for AdSense with my blog URL, but I’d like to paste AdSense on my forum site as well. Do I have to submit a new application?Inside AdSense says: You don’t have to submit a new application to add your code to a new site. As long as your pages comply with our policies, you can put your code on them - whether they share the same domain name as your original site or not. We’ll detect the new pages once the code is there, an