[Inside AdSense] Check up on it

After counting the days till your AdSense check arrives in the mail, you might plan to sprint straight to the bank. But before you try to achieve a land speed record getting to your local financial institution, here are a few things to keep in mind.

Bank on it?

Because bank policies vary throughout the world, we can't say whether a specific bank will be able to accept your AdSense checks. Since all AdSense checks are issued by Citibank, a correspondent relationship between your bank and Citibank is required to process our US Dollar checks. We recommend that you check with your bank to find out if this relationship exists.

Patience is a virtue.

Banks take varying amounts of time to clear checks. The exact length of time before funds will be available to you is a question best answered by your bank.

A penny saved...

Checks from AdSense are for deposit only; they are not able to be cashed.

Now that you have all the information, we wish you happy spending (or saving) your revenue!

Posted by Vineesha Malkani - AdSense Publisher Support

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/23/2007 10:26:00 AM
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[Inside AdSense] Get inline

We've heard your feedback about wanting to insert Google ads between your blog posts, and we're happy to let you know that Blogger now supports this implementation through the AdSense widget.

Here's all you need to do:

1. Log into your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com .
   
2. Visit your blog's Template tab and click on the Page Elements link.
   
3. Click Edit in the Blog Posts section.
   
   
   
4. Check the box next to Show Ads Between Posts. You can then select how often you'd like your ads to appear, such as once after every post or once after every other post.
   
   
   
5. Customize the ads and click on Save Changes when you're done.
   

Please note that right now, it's only possible to insert Google ads using this widget, and not AdSense for search boxes or referral units.

For more detailed instructions, please visit Blogger's Help Center . Lastly, don't forget to check out our blog optimization tips for ways to improve your ad performance.

Posted by Cathleen Jia - AdSense Publisher Support

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/21/2007 10:28:00 AM
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[Inside AdSense] AdSense heads to SES San Jose

Summer is the time for travel, right? That's why we're excited to be making the "long" trek from our office to San Jose to participate in the Search Engine Strategies conference from August 20-22.

A few members of the AdSense team will be speaking about contextual ads on Monday the 20th, and you can find the full schedule here. If you're planning to attend, be sure to also stop by the Google booth on Tuesday and Wednesday to meet other representatives from our team -- we're looking forward to helping you optimize your sites, answering your questions, and hearing your feedback about the product. And finally, don't forget to save room for our special event on Tuesday night at the Googleplex. :)

Hope to see you next week!

Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/17/2007 10:57:00 AM
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[Inside AdSense] Site maintenance on Saturday, August 11th

Tomorrow, our engineers will be performing routine system maintenance from 10am to 12pm PDT. Although you won't be able to log in to your account for 2 hours, we'll continue to serve ads to your pages and track your earnings as usual.

For our international readers, we've converted the maintenance start time for a few cities around the world:

Toronto -- 1pm Saturday
London -- 6pm Saturday
Cairo -- 8pm Saturday
Mumbai -- 10:30pm Saturday
Melbourne -- 3am Sunday

Thanks for your patience, and enjoy your weekend!

Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/10/2007 10:02:00 AM
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[Inside AdSense] Publishers go Dutch with newest AdSense forum

Two weeks ago, our blog team celebrated the first birthday of the Dutch AdSense blog. We're now happy to announce the launch of the Dutch AdSense Help Forum! Visit the new forum to ask troubleshooting questions, offer optimization advice, and meet other AdSense publishers. You might also notice posts from 'AdSensePro', a Google representative who will contribute to discussions.

Aside from Dutch, the AdSense Help Forum is also available in the following languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/09/2007 02:28:00 PM
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[Inside AdSense] Let's get this roadshow on the...er...road

We really enjoy meeting publishers face to face, as it lets us know
how you feel about the AdSense program and what improvements we can
make. Plus, we're happy to help you put faces to the names in the
email messages we send. Recently, a few members of our AdSense UK team
met up with a group of publishers in London to discuss AdSense and to
share a bit about future developments. We've compiled some video
footage from that day. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA24jTm7iWc

Posted by Robert Freeborn - AdSense UK Publisher Support

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[Inside AdSense] AdSense fits FixYa

As a technical support community website, FixYa.com helps people find the solutions and information they're looking for as quickly and as easily as possible. According to Yaniv Bar-Lev, FixYa's VP of user acquisition, this is why integrating AdSense into the site made so much sense. "Combining the contextual power of Google AdSense with our own user-generated content significantly improved the browsing experience, while helping us to easily monetize our complex site of over 700,000 products and several million web pages," he says.

With such a large site, Yaniv believes that the search capability of the site is an important element. "One of the most important things a user can do to help us provide better service is run a search for a problem or a product. The information gathered by the query allows us to quickly get the user to the information he or she was looking for," he comments. "However, it's always good to have a helping hand and provide external information from other sources, which is exactly what AdSense enabled us to do."

Yaniv recently began testing changes to the ad placements and formats on his search results pages. At the same time, he wanted to ensure a positive user experience with the ads on such an important section of his site. He found that by placing a 468x60 banner directly above the search results, an area of high focus for users, he was able to lift his revenue by 200%.

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Yaniv says that the key takeaway from this optimization is to continually test ideas and track the results. He also adds that "there's an added value in providing contextual ads in highly focused positions once you've gathered sufficient information on what the user is actually interested in, such as through a search query."

What's next for FixYa? "We are definitely going to continue working closely with AdSense to find new ways of improving monetization and service."

Posted by Shanie Weissman - AdSense Optimization Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/02/2007 10:10:00 AM
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