Wednesday, March 28, 2012

[Inside AdSense] Join us on our official Google+ AdSense Page

We've just launched our official AdSense Google+ page, and we're excited to start connecting with you in new ways via Google+.

On our new page, you'll find AdSense updates and tips, and you'll have access to exclusive Hangouts with members of the AdSense team. These live video chat sessions will give you the opportunity to share your product feedback with our Product Managers, ask your questions to our optimization specialists, and get to know many others who work on AdSense. We hope that through these Hangouts on our page, you'll also have the chance to meet other AdSense publishers from around the world to share your experiences and best practices.

Be sure to follow us on Google+ today and join the conversation!

Posted by Arlene Lee - Inside AdSense Team


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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

[Inside AdSense] Google Israel for Businesses blog launches in Hebrew

We've heard from many of you that a blog in Hebrew would be very useful. With this in mind, we're excited to announce the launch of the Google Israel for Business blog. We have a lot of information to share, so we've decided to create this new blog format as a one-stop shop for all the information both publishers and advertisers need, including AdSense and AdWords information.

In order to subscribe to only AdSense topics simply visit the blog, and under "Subscribe to a label" on the left hand side, select the category "AdSense". Then, you'll only get alerts for posts categorized under that label. If you click "Subscribe via email" (also on the left hand side) you will subscribe to the entire blog (i.e. all labels).

Subscribe to the new blog today!

Posted by Maya Carmely - Inside AdSense Team


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Monday, March 26, 2012

[Inside AdSense] Announcing our upcoming North America AdSense in Your City events

The AdSense in Your City team is excited to announce our next series of events. We'll be hitting the road and visiting 15 cities in April, May, and June and can't wait to work with more of our publishers. Our next series of events will be hosted in:

Sacramento, CA
Tuesday, April 10
San Diego, CA
Thursday, April 12
Los Angeles, CA
Friday, April 13
Montréal, QC, Canada
Tuesday, April 17
Philadelphia, PA
Thursday, April 19
Detroit, MI
Wednesday, May 2
Columbus, OH
Thursday, May 3
Washington DC
Wednesday, May 9
Boston, MA
Thursday, May 10
Oklahoma City, OK
Tuesday, May 22
San Antonio, TX
Wednesday, May 23
St. Louis, MO
Tuesday, June 5
Indianapolis, IN
Wednesday, June 6
Salt Lake City, UT
Tuesday, June 12
Denver, CO
Wednesday, June 13



AdSense in Your City began in the Summer of 2010 with the goal of allowing the AdSense Optimization team to meet with more of our AdSense publishers, offer customized tips and recommendations, and collect feedback. To date, we've worked with nearly 1500 publishers in more than 30 cities.

Each AdSense in Your City event includes presentations on optimization tips, DoubleClick for Publishers Small Business, and our mobile offering. Publishers who attend also receive a one-on-one consultation with a member of the AdSense team to review their site and offer customized recommendations. The events also provide a great opportunity for our attendees to meet and network with other AdSense publishers.

If you're interested in attending an AdSense in Your City event, let us know. We'll be sending out invitations soon so make sure your AdSense account is opted in to Special Offers so we can reach you. Also, if you're not near one of our North American cities, don't worry, AdSense in Your City is now global!

Posted by Courtney Yamada, AdSense in Your City team


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Thursday, March 22, 2012

[Inside AdSense] Bringing you a more powerful Ad review center



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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

[Inside AdSense] Learn about other Google products with our new Help Desk Hangouts on Air series

You're looking to grow your business, and we offer a ton of tools to help you do just that. But sometimes, you might need a little help learning all the options and getting started. That's why this week on the Google+ Your Business page, we've launched a new series of Help Desk Hangouts On Air to put you in touch with teams who can help you get the most out of our products and features.

To kick things off, we asked +Justin Cutroni of the Google Analytics team (and author of the blog Analytics Talk) to show us how business owners like you can use Analytics to track your website performance and see how users are getting to your site (email, social media, referrals). If you missed it, you can watch the full hour-long Hangout on the Google Business YouTube channel:

http://youtu.be/5cQ5JbE_ARE


Here are a few of the questions Justin addressed in the Hangout:

Is there a threat in respect to data privacy?
We take privacy very seriously at Google. The only person who has access to your Google Analytics data is you. You can also grant other people access to your Analytics data, but that's up to you.

Is there a plan to update the administration part of GA? We need more levels: creator, administrator, manager, reader.
Excellent feature request, and it relates to the question above. We get this question often and know that the current model is limiting. We are working hard to figure out the best user model for Analytics.

Is there a good WordPress plug-in for adding GA code to a blog?
Plug-ins! Justin's favorite, we learned yesterday in the Hangout. There are some great ones out there, especially for WordPress. Check out Google Analytics for WordPress.

Can you tell us more about the benefits of using Analytics for tracking mobile apps?
Great question. You can absolutely track apps with Google Analytics. We have two SDKs, one for Android and one for iOS, that make it easy to  track how people use an app. If you're going to use GA to track apps you should also understand Event Tracking and Custom Variables. These two features are very useful when tracking apps.

Justin shows us a feature that tells you how often you show up in Google's organic search results and the number of clickthroughs that you get.

To learn more about how to get started with Google Analytics, visit our Help Center. And remember to tune in to the live stream of our next Hangout at 11 a.m. PDT Wednesday, as we discuss how to use Hangouts (something a bunch of you have asked us to talk about!). We'll be collecting your Hangout questions today on the Google+ Your Business page.

Posted by Vanessa Schneider, Google Places community manager


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Monday, March 19, 2012

[Inside AdSense] Recapping our recent North American AdSense in Your City events

Recent months have been busy and exciting for the AdSense in Your City team! Since January, we've met with over 500 publishers across the U.S. and Canada. To date, the AdSense in Your City team has met with close to 1500 publishers in more than 30 cities and we can't wait to host more events.

We've had a great time working with our AdSense publishers and sharing our optimization tips and best practices for AdSense, DoubleClick for Publishers Small Business (DFP SB) and Mobile. It's also great to see so many of our publishers networking with one another and making friendships. One publisher in Albuquerque excitedly told me, "This is the first time I've been in a room where everyone knows what AdSense is!" We hope that we can continue to provide forums for our publishers to get together and share their stories and insights.

From snowy days in Portland, OR and Victoria, BC to a visit to the "Music City" in Nashville, TN, the team has brought back wonderful AdSense success stories and feedback.

A publisher from Oregon, who attended our Las Vegas event in November, was snowed in during the Portland event but came to Albuquerque to meet with us again. After implementing our tips from Las Vegas, the publisher saw a revenue increase by 40%.


We appreciate all of our publishers who have taken the time to attend our events, especially those who have traveled great distances to meet with us. Our team is looking forward to continuing to meet with even more of our amazing publishers. We'll be announcing our next 15 cities soon, so stay on the lookout for our next update. If you want the AdSense in Your City team to come to your city, let us know by adding your North American city in the comments section below.

Courtney Yamada, the North American AdSense in Your City team



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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

[Inside AdSense] AdSense crawler error redesign

As we explained in a previous post, there are many ways publishers can optimize their site for AdSense. One of the most overlooked is ensuring that our AdSense crawler can accurately crawl your site so that your ads are as relevant and useful as possible.

Today we're making this task easier for you with our latest redesign of the crawler access page which you'll find on the Account Settings page of your AdSense account.

We redesigned the page with three objectives in mind:
  1. Provide accurate and actionable information about your crawler errors.
  2. Organize and display the information in a more readable way.
  3. Provide clear and concise steps to help you fix the errors.

We've accomplished the goals above by:
  • Keeping the information that pertains to you and removing everything else.
  • Incorporating expandable sections so information isn't overbearing and indigestible.
  • Adding a new column which shows how many failed crawl requests occurred over a period of time.  This gives you an idea of the magnitude of the error.
  • Adding a new 'How to fix' column specifically designed to help you solve the error.
This AdSense redesign is merely a first step toward empowering you with the most accurate and relevant information. This in turn allows for better decision making which can lead to more effective AdSense optimizations, and as a result, increased revenue.

Posted by Nurzhan Bakibayev - Software Engineer


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