07 May 10 AdSense Site Maintenance in Weekends

This weekend, Google will have site maintenance and AdSense site will not be available to access. However, as usual, You’ll be unable to log in to your AdSense account during this time, but we’ll continue serving ads to your pages and tracking your clicks, impressions, and earnings as usual. In addition, your ad targeting won’t be affected. So, no worries about that.

So, basically the effected time will be as follows;

London - 5pm Saturday
Alexandria - 8pm Saturday
Hyderabad - 10:30pm Saturday
Jakarta - 12am Sunday
Perth - 1am Sunday

It will be about a few hours tops, normally, but I just wanted to share that don’t be alarmed if you cannot access your AdSense account because if a legit click will be made, you will be paid accordingly.

Just a heads up for my readers, really. Have a nice weekend.

Tags: adsense, google, maintenance, schedule, weekend

22 Apr 10 Google Adsense Western Union Payment

Google has just increased “Western Union Quick Cash” enable countries to 10 more. It was announced yesterday. I think it is pretty good thing Google has been try to establish in a global marketing aspect. So there are the 10 new countries that is just added to the list as of yesterday, 21 April, 2010. So, the lucky countries are Saudi Arabia, Croatia, Iceland, United Arab Emirates, Latvia, Lebanon, Slovenia, Tunisia, Moldova and Malta. With Western Union Quick Cash payment option, people will not wait several days to get paid since the clearing money at the bank is sometimes time consuming and mailing time. Besides, this option will not be charged you any money at all, which is also better than bank clearing, because with bank clearing checks, the bank will charge you some amount to clear as well.

 But let me quote you what Google has stated,

 ”Please keep in mind these important points:

• Payments will continue to follow our normal payment schedule and will be available for pickup at your local Western Union agent the day after they’re issued.
• You’ll need to present a government-issued ID that matches your AdSense payee name when picking up your payment. If you need to update or correct the payee name listed in your account, please follow the instructions in our Help Center.
• Right now, only individual payee names can receive payments by Western Union, not businesses.
• Payments must be picked up within 60 days of issue, or they’ll expire and be credited back to your account.
• Payments will be made in US dollars, but depending on your local Western Union agent, they may be picked up in your local currency.”

 In case you are wondering whether your country has already been qualified for the Western Union Payment, I should have included the countries that have already been identified.

So, the finalized list of the countries that can be accepted as Western Union Quick Cash payment will be;

 
 

• Argentina
• Barbados
• Bolivia
• Bulgaria
• Chile
• China (Mainland)
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• Guatemala
• Iceland
• Indonesia
• Jamaica
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Lithuania
• Malta
• Malaysia
• Moldova
• Morocco
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Puerto Rico
• Romania
• Saudi Arabia
• Slovenia
• South Korea
• Taiwan
• Tunisia
• United Arab Emirates
• Uruguay
• Vietnam
• Virgin Islands (British)

   Well, enjoy your faster payments, folks. And Thanks for reading. J

11 Sep 09 AdSense Site Maintenance This Saturday 12 September 2009

Google Adsense

If you haven’t heard yet, AdSense will be doing maintenance on this coming Saturday on 12 September 2009. Bear with me, there’s no need to think negative LOL. Only problem is you will not be able to login to your AdSense account, the rest will do just fine. So, no need to panic. It’s actually periodical maintenance and it will not take very long as well.

So, what’s the most important question in this post? Of course, the ads will serve as usual, the clicks will be paid accordingly and your ads targeting won’t be affected. Here are some cities that will be starting in their local time.

Ottawa - 1pm Saturday
London - 6pm Saturday
Kolkata - 10:30pm Saturday
Manila - 1am Sunday
Auckland – 5am Sunday

Just for the heads up. Everything else will be working as normal.

Tags: ads, adsense, Auckland, google, London, maintenance, Manila, Ottawa

03 Sep 09 Google AdSense Filtering Improvements

Do you use AdSense Filtering service? If you haven’t, Try once. It will be a bit of surprise that you don’t know which IP are using to serve your ads as well as competitive ads filter will enable you to block specific ads, such as competitors’ ads, from appearing on your pages.

Now there are two additional features in Competitive Ads Filter that have been improved now.

I will directly quote from AdSense Blog, so that you will not misunderstand the meaning.

Faster filtering
In the past, the Competitive Ad Filter sometimes took up to several hours to block URLs you’d entered. Knowing you’ve wanted a faster filtering system, we’re excited to let you know that URLs added to your Competitive Ad Filter are now usually blocked within 30 minutes. We hope that this will help you quickly make changes to maintain a positive user experience on your sites.

Increased filter list size
At the same time, a growing number of you have let us know that you’re running out of space in your Competitive Ad Filter. Now, you can add up to 500 sites to your filter list, more than double the previous limit. As you add new sites, please continue to keep the possible revenue impact of filtering in mind.

So, this is actually a big improvement for me, because It is always good to use filter service from AdSense and it will improve and give you safety for your website as well.

Tags: ads, adsense, blog, google, improve, revenue, Website

19 Aug 09 Default Font Faces to be updated

Hello, I just got an email from AdSense team that they wil be tweaking a few more updates regarding to fonts, so that Ads will look more natural and nicely fit in with AdSense displayed websites.

So, to get more precise information I will quote here..

Currently, most ad units set to the AdSense default font face are displayed in Arial, with a few in Verdana. Here are the new default font faces we’re launching for our ad units:

Arial: 728×90, 336×280, 120×600, 120×240
Verdana: 300×250, 160×600, 468×60, 250×250, 234×60, 125×125, 180×150
Times New Roman: 200×200

So, tweak your AdSense Ads and generate your income better than ever.

Tags: adsense, google, income, update, Website