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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 their content and by giving them the ability to perform many AdSense functions without ever leaving your site. For example, they can: Create and manage AdSense accounts Customize and implement AdSense for content ad units and link units, AdSense for search boxes, and referrals for products such as Google AdWords and Firefox Generate URL and custom channel reports Best of all, you get to make money with the AdSense API through the Revenue Sharing program. Advertisers pay your users and you when visitors click on your users' ads. Plu

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 just joined AdSense, for instance, you can click the ‘ Newbie ’ label to find information about getting started with your account. Are you looking for information about how to understand your reports? Just visit the ' Earnings/Reports ' section of the blog. You can look forward to categories like: AdSense features Case studies Earnings/Reports International Newbie Optimization Other Other Google products Payments Program Policies We’re currently in the process of adding labels to all of the posts in our archives, and we ap

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. Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support

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 three steps: 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. (The current $10 minimum purchase corresponds to our existing $10 promotion for new buyers, so this amount may change in the future.) You earn $1. It's that simple. Please note that Checkout referrals are currently only available for U.S. publishers, and Google Checkout

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 customize your referral units to match the look and feel of your site, making it easier than ever to find a referral ad that fits in seamlessly with your site's design and content. What's more, Google can help make sure you find and display the most relevant, best-performing referral ads on your site. Simply provide a few keywords to describe your site and your users' interests, and you'll see ads automatically displayed that perform best for your site. No more constant updating, rotating products, or guesswork. As with

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 visitors. Inside AdSense: How does AdSense impact your business? Peter Clee: It has reinforced our view that creating good, relevant content is what we, as publishers, should be all about. AdSense is a stress-free and rapid way to support new sections and features on your site, ensuring you have a degree of monetisation before you even consider additional revenue streams. If a section works well with AdSense you quickly learn it is worth investing more time and energy into expanding its content. Additionally, with future redesig

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 earnings. Fortunately, the answer is no. You'll only need to enter in a PIN once per account, and we'll send it to you the first time you reach $50 in earnings. If you've reached $50 in earnings and haven't yet entered in your PIN, you'll see a box at the top of your Payment History page labeled 'Required Action'. Click on the 'Please enter your PIN' link to review detailed information about the date your most recent PIN was generated, and when you can request a replacement should you need on

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 Calendar -- you'll then be able to see AdSense events alongside your personal events with a click of your mouse. Alternatively, you can subscribe via a feed reader or an iCal-compatible program. For more information on subscribing to the AdSense Calendar, please visit our Help Center . Finally, we're happy to announce that the AdSense Calendar is also available in Dutch , German , Italian , and Spanish . So whether you're checking our Calendar, Agenda, Kalender, or Calendario, we hope you'll find these resources help

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 protect the privacy and security of all accounts. For example, if you have specific questions related to your payments , we want to make sure your account information is really going to you and not to a third party. Just as a driver's license and passport serve as forms of ID for you, you can consider your login as your ID for AdSense. As a result, we ask that you keep your AdSense login handy for account inquiries you may have. Posted by Jennifer Su - AdSense Publisher Support

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 WYSIWYG or "what you see is what you get" editors. Although this can be a significant advantage when you're editing your page, the same features that make WYSIWYG editors so great can actually make it harder to implement AdSense. If you paste the code into a "design" or "layout" view in one of these programs, then what you see (the ad code itself) is what you get on your page. To avoid seeing unsightly code on your page and to make sure your ads function properly, you'll need to copy and paste the ad co