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Friday, 21 September 2012

Mobile Mondays: Setting goals for mobile monetization

This is the first post in our 'Mobile Mondays' series. Throughout the next couple of months we'll highlight best practices to help you get the most from your mobile content. From time to time, we'll also share stories directly from publishers who have recently gone mobile.

We recently announced our 11 billionth app download from Android Play. Given the consumer movement towards the small screen, it's important to consider how much of this consumed media was created specifically for mobile. Once you've successfully taken your business mobile, you can capitalize on this with some key optimization steps. Below, we'll outline ways you can get the most out of your mobile content. Before any optimization can take place, you'll need a clear view of your business goals on mobile.

The importance of goals
There are no rules around mobile strategies, but mobile businesses need clearly defined goals in order to be successful. If you're an online-only publisher, your goals might revolve around engagement and visits. If you have location-specific content, you may want to incorporate local elements into your mobile offering. Your business goals should align with the needs of your users.

Prioritization is a key element in goal-setting. You might think that all publishers have acquisition goals around new users prioritized most highly -- after all, who wouldn't want to reach new audiences? Consider a mobile forum and message board website. They'll want new users discovering and using their online discussion site, but this should occur organically if their existing user base creates discussions with sufficient breadth and depth. In this instance, it could be beneficial for the forum owners to focus on website optimization (driving engagement), rather than new user acquisition.

With these possible goals in mind, here are some tips to help you optimize your content for a mobile audience:

Goal #1: Drive traffic and new customer acquisition

Cross-promotion: This is an easy and cost-effective way to leverage your existing user base to drive users to your mobile site.
Advertising: Mobile website optimization now factors into mobile search ads quality. To find out more about advertising on mobile devices, visit our Mobile Ads site.
Localize: China, Korea, Japan, and the U.S. represent some of the biggest markets for mobile media consumption. Track your usage in regions and consider building out a localized app for regions where it's most popular.
Create new, unique mobile content for new mobile audiences. Men's Health understood that their target audience used smartphones in the gym to listen to music. As a result, they created a mobile app with workout exercises -- handy for when their users have the phone with them in the gym.

Goal #2: Drive Engagement

Website optimization: If one of your goals is to retain users who want access to content on-the-go, use Google Analytics to help you choose the most effective content for your site. A recent survey (Omniture, 2010) found that Mobile- friendly web experiences have produced an average 75% higher rate of engagement (revenue, page views, etc.) per visit for mobile users, than desktop websites viewed through a mobile device.
Brand engagement: Make use of the extended functionality of a mobile device (GPS, Camera, SMS).

Goal #3: Maximizing Revenue

When designing a mobile-optimized site, it's key to focus on the overall user experience and what you want to achieve as a publisher. This is especially true if your core business model is built around advertising revenue or if it's a strong contributor of profit. Consider the type of ad units and formats that you plan to incorporate, which will help you make the most of monetization opportunities without compromising content. To find out more, download our publisher guide or our Android app to explore the range of our mobile ad formats.

We've placed "publisher goals" into three categories using broad brush strokes above. In reality, it's unlikely your ambitions will be as narrow in scope. We hope you'll be able to pick an optimization step (or a combination of steps) tailored to your particular site.

Posted by Robbie Wetherell, Mobile Publisher Advocate

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Mobile Mondays: Going Mobile - Why FindTheBest went mobile

For our second post in the Mobile Mondays series, we've invited Grace Nasri of FindtheBest to share her company's experience in going mobile. Read last week's post to learn about setting mobile goals.

Mobile is rising at a rate much faster than any other technology to date. Last year at Google's Think Mobile Event, Kleiner Perkins' Mary Meeker said the pace and force of mobile growth was unlike anything seen previously and Google's Dennis Woodside predicted, "mobile will create the largest technology market ever. This market will dwarf the PC and all the PC industry has done."

Seeing this global trend toward mobile, realizing that large segments of potential consumers only have access to mobile devices, and knowing that about 60% of time spent on smartphones is spent engaging in new activities—meaning potentially new customers— we at FindTheBest decided to launch a mobile-optimized version of our site.

FindTheBest is a data-driven comparison engine, and we launched our mobile site in January after realizing there was a large segment of potential customers we weren't able to effectively reach. Before launching the mobile site, mobile visitors were 12% more likely to bounce and viewed 27% less pages than desktop visitors.

FindTheBest has gone mobile, and has been rewarded with a 3.5x increase in mobile revenue.

However, designing a mobile site doesn't come without challenges and we had to consider three main issues:

While traditional desktops offer a lot of real estate, mobile devices are more limited in terms of space.
Desktops and laptops have faster Internet connections than mobile devices.
Mobile devices are primarily touch-based, which requires an entirely different user interface.

How FindTheBest went mobile

We hired a mobile expert to design our mobile site. Several decisions needed to be factored in to guarantee the best user experience, as users who visit mobile sites that don't offer a great UX often leave a site and go to a competitor site. Since we offer a diverse amount of information presented in a range of ways on the traditional site, we had to limit what it would include in the mobile version. We took into consideration questions like, "What are the most relevant filters that need to be included?" and narrowed the data fields on each comparison's search results page to only the top three most important ones. Similarly, we made design considerations to ensure users could access the information they needed within three taps and that the pages loaded quickly over 3G networks.

After developing and designing the mobile site, we were able to take some of our findings and apply it to the main site.

The Results: Increased customers and ad revenue for FindTheBest and its partners

Currently, 25% of our customers are accessing the site through mobile devices. While traffic to FindTheBest is rising by about 15-20% month-over-month, the percentage of mobile users accessing FindTheBest is rising by 25%.

Between January 2011 and January 2012, the total number of visits to FindTheBest has grown by 3X, while the number of visits from mobile alone has grown 7X. The week after after launching the mobile version, visits from mobile devices increased 28% (as compared to 19% for non-mobile visits). Our user engagement has also significantly increased as page views per mobile visit increased by more than 15%--which reaffirmed the benefit of optimizing for mobile.

The mobile site has also translated into more ad revenue for us. After launching the mobile site, our ad revenue from mobile devices increased 3.5X. The benefits of having a mobile-optimized site have also carried over to our publisher partners, which currently include TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Android Authority.

What's Next?

We constantly analyze user behavior and continue to optimize the mobile site accordingly. We're currently researching ways to include responsive design technologies into the site, so that the mobile and desktop code bases can be merged into one. Maintaining multiple code bases is time consuming, but we believe this is the future and will be worth the investment.

Posted by Grace Nasri, Managing Editor at FindTheBest

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 4/23/2012 09:40:00 AM

Tips for creating high quality sites

We receive a lot of questions from publishers wanting to know best practices to grow your businesses with AdSense. While there's no one right answer, our advice continues to be to focus on creating high quality content and delivering the best possible user experience on your websites. Here are some key suggestions on how to design and organize your website content with an overall emphasis on the quality of the site.

Don't create multiple pages or sites with duplicate content.

We encourage you to create high quality sites rather than a large quantity of sites. Focusing on one site and making it richer in information and authentic in content not only benefits users, but also helps you win more of them. When users are browsing online, they want to find what they're looking for quickly and easily without combing through endless multiple pages, subdomains, or sites with substantially generic or duplicate content. If you have pages or sites that are similar in content or template design, consider consolidating the pages or sites into one.

Provide content that gives users a reason to visit, and return, to your site.

When you create content on your site, it's important to ask yourself if the page provides substantial value or service when compared to sites covering similar subjects. It's worth the effort to create original content that sets your site apart from the rest. This will provide useful search results and keep your visitors coming back.

Provide the information or service promised.

Some publishers create sites that appear to offer a product or service, but instead trick users into navigating through several pages and viewing ads. This results in a negative user experience, and causes your site to be perceived as untrustworthy. Use keywords appropriately and in context with your content and make sure users are able to easily navigate through the site to find what products, goods, or services are promised.

There's no shortcut to success. Building high quality site takes effort and time. However, we've seen that publishers who focus on their users instead of using quick and deceptive techniques are the real winners and experience long-term revenue growth and success in our network. For more information, check out Google Webmaster Guidelines and the policy section of the AdSense Help Center.

Posted by Lingjuan Zhang, AdSense Policy team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 4/25/2012 08:30:00 AM

Mobile site or mobile app, what’s right for your business right now?

Last month, we talked about why the time has come to mobilize your site and nurture what is most likely your fastest growing audience -- your mobile users. We also launched our GoMo initiative to help you get started. If you've started thinking about going mobile, chances are you've asked yourself whether you should mobile site, a mobile app, or even both. The answer depends entirely on the needs of your business.

One thing to note — for web publishers, the best mobile strategy is rarely a "one or the other" choice between mobile sites and mobile apps. Mobile sites are cheaper and less complex. Many web publishers have elected to build mobile sites as their first foray into mobile, and the question becomes: do I need to invest further in mobile and build a mobile app? Below are a few questions to consider as you decide whether a mobile app is right for your business.

Who are your users?
Find out how users are currently accessing your content using the Platforms report on the Performance reports tab in your AdSense account. Understanding the devices your users are accessing your site from will help you tailor your content to provide them with the best mobile experience. For example, if most of your visitors are coming from feature phones, then a smartphone app wouldn't do them any good.

How do you want users to access your content?
Connectivity matters. A mobile site requires users to have data access, while apps can allow the user to cache your content to consume at a later moment. Tourist information and maps are great examples of content that is extremely useful when downloaded and cached on a mobile device for later consumption.

How do you want users to interact with your content?
Mobile devices allow you to design a unique user experience with your content. Mobile apps allow you to tap into native phone features that don't exist on a desktop browser such as GPS, accelerometers, embedded cameras, etc. While more of these device features are becoming available via HTML5 libraries on newer devices, mobile apps still offer the most robust suite of options for accessing mobile specific features.

How quickly do you want to make changes to your content?
Updates to mobile sites are instantaneous. Depending on the change you want to make, some app stores may require you to resubmit your app, which will then require the users to take action in updating the app package on their mobile devices.

What development and budget constraints exist?
Understanding your in-house capabilities and resources is crucial in making development choices. Without in-house capabilities to develop mobile assets, you'll have to consider development and upkeep costs. In addition, you'll only need to develop one mobile site, while apps require cross platform assets and skills to maintain. As with any other worthwhile investment, this should not be a set-it-and-forget-it project. Be sure to iterate often to keep the user experience fresh.

Finally, consider who will be responsible for further development and whether you'll need to hire another head to maintain this new asset. Answering all of these questions above will help you to make the right decision for your business and your users.

Posted by Tuyen Nguyen - Mobile Publisher Advocate

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 4/30/2012 09:50:00 AM

Introducing redesigned Payments pages

To make the payment process easier and more flexible, we'll soon be introducing some changes to the "Payments" and "Account settings" pages in your AdSense account. At the moment, this new payments interface is available to a small set of AdSense accounts, but we'll gradually roll it out to more publishers in the upcoming months. When the new Payments page is enabled for your account, it'll look like this:

Here's a summary of the changes and added benefits of the new payments interface:

1. Redesigned Payment summary and Payment settings pages
- Payment method is now called Form of payment.
- Unpaid finalized earnings is now called Current balance.
- Redesigned transaction history table shows you the latest activities at the top.
- New toolbar support allows you to filter, print, export, or download transaction information.

2. More flexibility with your payment settings
- New extended timeline allows you to change your payment information until the 20th of any month.
- You can choose any payment threshold greater than the default payment threshold based on your reporting currency.
- You can also hold your payments until a specified date.

3. Improved navigation of the payments interface
- Centralized locations to manage your Payment settings and Payee profile.
- Contextual help is displayed based on the pages you navigate to.

This is just a first step towards providing a better payment experience, and we'll continue to add improvements over the coming months. For additional details, please sign in to your AdSense account and visit the Payments section in our Help Center.

Posted by Ernest Yip, Product Manager, Payments Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 5/01/2012 09:00:00 AM

Around the world with AdSense in Your City

Since taking AdSense in Your City global earlier this year, our international teams have met with over 600 publishers in cities like Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Melbourne, Istanbul, and Mumbai, just to name a few. During these events, we've shared product updates and best practices for getting started with solutions like DFP Small Business and Mobile. In addition, attendees have had the opportunity to network with other local publishers and participate in one-on-one consultation sessions with our optimization specialists.

As our U.S. events take place, we're excited to continue visiting international cities to meet more publishers. Some of the cities we'll be stopping by in the next few weeks include:

Week of May 7:

Dusseldorf / Hamburg / Munich, Germany (sessions in German)

Week of May 14:

Auckland, New Zealand (sessions in English)

Week of May 21:

Mexico D.F., Mexico (sessions in Spanish)

Week of May 28:

London, UK (sessions in English)
Curitiba, Brazil (sessions in Portuguese)

Week of June 4:

Sydney, Australia (sessions in English)
Paris, France (sessions in French)
Tel Aviv, Israel (sessions in Hebrew)
Buenos Aires, Argentina (sessions in Spanish)

Week of June 25:

Porto Alegre, Brazil (sessions in Portuguese)

If you'd like to attend one of these upcoming AdSense in Your City events, please fill out our interest form. Space is limited at each event so we won't be able to accommodate all requests, but we'll do our best to include as many interested publishers as possible. In the meantime, we recommend ensuring you're opted in to receiving 'Special Offer' emails so we can reach you in the future.

Thanks to all of our recent AdSense in Your City attendees for taking the time to join us and share your feedback. We look forward to meeting more of you in the coming weeks!

Posted by Arlene Lee - Inside AdSense Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 5/03/2012 08:45:00 AM

Mobile Mondays: GoMo and DudaMobile offer a do-it-yourself mobile site builder

An important first step to attracting customers on-the-go is to create a mobile-friendly website which can sometimes be complicated and confusing. We're happy to announce that GoMo and DudaMobile have joined forces to make it even easier for small businesses to create a mobile-friendly website.

You can create a free mobile site directly from howtogomo.com using a tool powered by DudaMobile. This do-it-yourself site builder, customized specifically for GoMo users, easily converts regular websites into mobile-friendly sites in five simple steps. And it allows you to add features like a click-to-call button, mobile maps and Google AdSense. Sites that are created with the GoMo-DudaMobile tool will be hosted free for one year.

Here's a before and after screenshot of Dog Nanny's site.

Dog Nanny's website was not mobile friendly. Visitors had to pinch and zoom to read content.

Dog Nanny's new mobile site - created in just a few minutes - looks great on mobile devices.

Please note that DudaMobile's technology is best for converting simple sites. If your site uses a lot of Flash content, framesets or e-commerce, we suggest that you Go Mobile by talking to your agency or working with one of our suggested developers.

Many small businesses are discovering that mobile sites mean more business. Now you have an opportunity to easily create a professional mobile site which will delight your customers when they visit you on the mobile web. Visit howtogomo.com/getstarted and build your site today. It's time to GoMo!

Posted by Nabil Haschemie, Product Marketing Manager, Mobile Ads

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 5/07/2012 10:35:00 AM

Join us at the AdSense GetMo Exhibition in London

We've talked a lot recently on our blog about how mobile usage is rising at a rate faster than any other technology to date. To keep up, it's important for your business to develop a mobile strategy.

If you're located in the London, UK area (or are willing to travel to London!) we'd like to let you know about the GetMo Exhibition we're hosting on Wednesday, 30 May. During this event, you'll have the opportunity to learn more about mobile trends. You'll meet mobile site developers from the GetMo site to hear how they can help you develop a mobile site with their offerings.

The agenda will feature sessions including:

Mobile Industry Trends with Ian Carrrington, Mobile Advertising Sales Director
A glimpse into the world of Android with Richard Hyndman, Developer Advocate
Offerings available from GetMo vendors
GetMo publisher panel

Spots are filling up, but if you'd like to attend the upcoming event, fill out our interest form before Thursday, 24 May. Although we won't be able to accommodate all requests due to space constraints, we'll do our best to include as many interested publishers as possible. We also recommend ensuring you're opted in to receiving 'Special Offer' emails so we can reach you in the future.

We hope to see you in London at our GetMo Exhibition!

Posted by Marta Lysiak - AdSense Optimization Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 5/22/2012 08:50:00 AM

Mark your calendars for DoubleClick Insights on June 5th

As the digital media world continues to grow and diversify, we see unprecedented opportunity for both publishers and advertisers. AdSense publishers are an integral part of the display industry community -- so what does this mean for the future of buying and selling ads?

Tune in and watch Google's Neal Mohan, VP of Display Advertising, sit down with industry leaders to explore the digital ecosystem's swift evolution, and how publishers and advertisers can work better together to chart a path to make the most of every opportunity, while simultaneously addressing the challenges both face.

The live stream will start on June 5th, 2012, at 9:00am PDT, and you'll be able to watch from your computer, tablet, or mobile device.

Please register for this virtual event by visiting the DoubleClick Insights Live Stream page.

DoubleClick Insights

Tuesday, June 5th 2012

9:00am - 1:00pm PST

Following us on Google+ or Twitter? Use the #dclkinsights as you're watching the event.

Posted by Stephen Kliff, DoubleClick Marketing

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 5/25/2012 10:10:00 AM

Fwd: [Inside AdSense] New industry metrics to help publishers make the most from the web

Over 2 million AdSense publishers like you create the unique and diverse content that we all love - whether it's finding reviews for a new restaurant, or do-it-yourself furniture makeovers. Online advertising helps fuel this creativity, and we've been improving our products to help you make the most of every opportunity - from making it easier to earn revenue from the mobile web, or welcoming Indonesian publishers to the AdSense community. One of the ways we can continue to support you is by giving access to new sources of industry knowledge to enable you to make the most from display advertising. With this is mind, today we're introducing a new report, "Display Business Trends: Publisher Edition".

What's inside for AdSense publishers? Well for starters, there are answers to questions like:

Which ad sizes are rising in popularity? You control the ad experience on your site by choosing ad sizes that fit the design of your pages. But with such a flexible selection, which ad sizes should you pick? We found that 80% of all ads served tend to be the three best performing ad units for AdSense publishers: the medium rectangle, leaderboard, and skyscraper. We're also seeing fewer publishers use smaller ad units, like the 468x60 banner.
Is the mobile web really a big deal? We think so! We saw a 250% increase in mobile web impressions over the last three months of 2011. Growth in mobile usage has exploded, and there's never been a better time for your site to go mobile. Check out resources for publishers on our GoMo site and Mobile Mondays blogposts.
Which sites are showing strong impression growth? In 2011, we found that Shopping, Sports, and Auto & Vehicle sites were some of the fastest year-on-year growth verticals on the Ad Exchange and AdSense. We saw impressive figures across the board, with 15 out of 25 publisher verticals displaying double-digit growth.
Where in the world are you? All over, as it turns out. Of a possible estimated 245 different countries and territories, we saw publisher ad impressions from 235 of them. These included the island country of Palau - one of the world's newest sovereign states - and the middle-African nation of Equatorial Guinea, with astounding growth rates of 1106% and 4635% respectively. And while the United States still accounts for the highest percentage of impressions overall, we're seeing a significant representation from China and Japan, coming in at 11% and 6% respectively.

The Publisher Edition will be the first in a series of publications looking at aggregated global data from across Google's display advertising solutions, so stay tuned for more industry metrics to come. In the meantime, join the conversation and tell us what you think is behind these trends on our AdSense +Page.

Posted by Mel Ann Chan, Product Marketing Manager, Display Advertising.

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 5/29/2012 07:30:00 AM

Important changes to Service Tax in your Google AdWords account

Dear Advertiser,

Due to a recent change in Indian tax regulations, the service tax rate for advertising services supplied by Google India Private Limited will change. The rate will be reduced from the current rate of 12.36% to 0% (zero percent). Given that Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess are calculated as a percentage of the service tax, we will also no longer charge these taxes. This change will take effect for all AdWords invoices dated on or after July 1, 2012.

Please note that Google cannot advise you on tax matters and recommend that you contact your tax adviser for any questions regarding this change.

The tax exemption details (negative list) can be found in the Finance Act, 2012 (Clause 143). In particular, the 17 services that comprise the negative list can be found at Section 66D. The sale of advertising space or time slots is included under (G) Section 66D. Notification No 19/2012-Service Tax appoints the 1st day of July, 2012 as the date from which the provisions of clauses (C), (F), (G) and (I) of the Finance Act, 2012 (Act No 23 of 2012) shall come into effect.

This service announcement is sent to all our Indian customers (active as well as inactive) and does not affect your account status or activity.

Thanks,
The Google AdWords team

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PubTalk: Docstoc’s Jason Nazar says ads can complement e-commerce

When Docstoc was launched in 2007 as an online destination to help small businesses grow, advertising was the only source of revenue. As the company grew, the business model evolved to include premium subscriptions. We recently spoke with Jason Nazar, CEO of Docstoc, on the impact of advertising on their e-commerce business.

Jason says that as subscriptions grew, there was significant internal debate at Docstoc on whether ads were distracting users and limiting subscriptions. A strong believer of testing and making data-driven decisions, Jason removed all ads across the site for a single day to see if this created uplift in subscriptions.

With more than 600,000 daily visitors, the results of the experiment were definitive: removing ads did not have a noticeable impact on subscription conversions. In fact, user engagement metrics like time on site and page views per user didn't improve either, debunking the myth that ads were alienating users.

Jason concluded that there could be a harmonious balance between running an e-commerce business and having ads on the site because a site's audience isn't homogeneous. In Docstoc's case, while some people are looking for the high quality content behind the pay wall, others want quick information. When Docstoc is unable to provide information to users in the second group, contextually relevant advertising helps answer their questions – thus, Docstoc is able to earn revenue from users who are unlikely to convert to paying subscribers. Users invested in the service and the content sign up for the subscription service even with the AdSense ads. "From an overall revenue standpoint, we're clearly much better for having both advertising and e-commerce on the site," he says.

Jason advises publishers to be aggressive about testing any product they use on their site and to make decisions that are driven by data, rather than subjective opinions and whims. "If you've got a content site with a lot of traffic, AdSense and products like it are a fantastic way to drive revenue, even if you have opportunities like lead gen, e-commerce and subscription, you shouldn't be taking off the ad products - you should be figuring out how they can live together in harmony, because you'll make more money for it."

Read the full case study on the 'Success Stories' section of our Help Center. Have you had similar results on your website? Share your story with us on the Google AdSense +page.

This blog post is part of "PubTalk", a series of conversations with publishers.

Posted by Yamini Gupta, Product Marketing Manager

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 6/27/2012 08:55:00 AM

Ad blocking part I: To block or not to block?

Think of your website as your kingdom. You're in control of what will be shown. AdSense provides strong controls that enable you to allow and block ads on your website. Ad blocking shouldn't be thought of as a means of account optimization, but as a way to make sure you're satisfied with the ads that are shown. Over the next few days, we'll be busting some of the most common myths associated with ad blocking that we've heard from publishers.

Myth: It doesn't matter how many ads I block, they'll just be removed from my site.
Ad blocking should be used sparingly. Displaying all ads creates the most competitive atmosphere in the ad auction, with the largest amount of ad inventory possible competing for an impression on your site.

That said, there are some good reasons for blocking ads:

You're sensitive to the content of a particular ad (or category of ad) and would prefer it not to show on your site (e.g., politics, sexuality, or religion).
You want to block ads from a particular company because you already have a direct advertising deal from them.
You want to block ads from a competitor of your business.

Myth: If I block low paying ads I'll make more money.
Even if a particular ad is only contributing a small portion to your revenue, blocking it will likely cause a lower revenue-generating ad to show. We'll always display the highest-paying ad, so if an ad appeared on your site, it meant that it was the highest-performing ad of all available.

Myth: I blocked some ads for a few days and my earnings went up. This means blocking helped my earnings grow!
Earnings in your AdSense account can constantly fluctuate. Your revenue depends on a number of variables from traffic changes on your site to advertisers changing their bids. Be careful when assuming that correlation indicates causation!

As mentioned in this Help Center article, we target ads based on your content and audience. The ads that you see aren't necessarily the same ones your users see (e.g., interest-based targeting and geotargeting). Also, ads that may seem off-topic to you as a publisher might actually be the most valuable to the user in that browsing session.

Myth: If I block enough ads, I can essentially pick the ads that will show on my site.
As Hal Varian, the Chief Economist at Google, stated in a previous post, the ads that win in the auction are the ones that are expected to deliver you the most revenue, while ensuring a good user experience. The same ads don't always appear on your site for a variety of reasons, ranging from changes in advertiser spend to geotargeting of users.

Now that we've addressed some common myths, we invite you to join us for a Google+ Hangout On Air focused on ad blocking. It'll take place on Tuesday, August 7th at 10am PDT, and you'll have the opportunity to learn more about ad blocking and hear answers to your related questions. To submit a question about ad blocking, simply leave a comment on the post on our AdSense +page post. We also encourage you to +1 questions posted by other publishers that you're interested in hearing the answers to.

Stay tuned for part II of our ad blocking series on this Friday!

Posted by: Wesley Houser, Inside AdSense Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/01/2012 09:10:00 AM

Join our upcoming mobile Hangouts On Air

As part of our ongoing GoMo initiative, we're hosting two more mobile Hangouts on Air to explore different mobile topics. Join us for one or both Hangouts to learn all about going mobile.

Build a business, not just an app (August 15th) on the AdMob +page
If you already have a mobile application and are interested in learning more about app monetization strategies, register here by August 10th for our 'Build a business, not an app' Hangout on August 15th at 4pm GMT/8am PDT. Whether you're an AdMob newbie or simply looking to get a refresher, this Hangout is designed to show you how to make the most out of your app. In this Hangout we'll look at:

App business model and promotion strategies
AdMob optimization tips and policy information

Creating a mobile strategy (August 16th) on our AdSense +page
Learn more about developing a mobile strategy and why it's important to create a mobile site or app to accommodate your mobile users. Register by August 10th if you're interested in joining our 'Mobile Hangout' on August 16th at 4pm GMT/8am PDT. In this Hangout we'll look at:

The importance of building a mobile site or app
Mobile site best practices
Where to find agencies that create a mobile site or app
Mobile success stories from other publishers

Once you've registered for either of the Hangouts On Air, we'll send you instructions on how to join the event. We look forward to hanging out with you soon.

Posted by Dairine Kennedy - Mobile Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/06/2012 08:30:00 AM

Update on forms of payment available on our new payment system

We recently let you know about upcoming improvements to the Payments page in your account, designed to provide you with a better experience and address your feedback. These changes are part of an upgrade to our payment system, and over the coming months we'll continue to roll out these upgrades to all publishers.

For publishers located in countries where we offer payments via Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), we've made improvements to this form of payment to give you quicker access to your earnings. Once your account has been upgraded to our new system, EFT payments will appear in your bank account just days after posting to your Payments page. As always, EFT payments are free of charge, less error prone, more efficient and the most environmentally-friendly payment method.

With these changes, please note that the new system won't support check payments in countries where we offer EFT as a form of payment. If you're located in a country where we offer EFT payments and you currently receive check payments, please be advised that you'll need to complete a few steps once your account is upgraded. However, no immediate action is required on your part at the moment. Once your account is transitioned to the new system, you'll receive an email notification with detailed instructions on setting up EFT payments.

For our readers who are located in countries where we don't yet support EFT, please know that we're working hard to improve the payments process and find ways to send you your payments as quickly and securely as possible. If you have any questions, please sign in to your AdSense account and visit the Payments section in our Help Center for the most relevant information.

Posted by Colm Keady, Partner Payments

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/08/2012 07:50:00 AM

PubTalk Hangout: Add up to 3 content ad units to your page

Welcome to the second video in our publisher feedback series. Hopefully you've been able to test ad sizes and placements since our last post!

During the same Hangout, publishers Al Gross of infosports.com, Katie and Gene Hamilton of diyornot.com, and Voitek Klimczyk of simplyadditions.com discussed how adding additional content ad units to their pages significantly helped increase their AdSense revenue. In the past, we've seen publishers increase their earnings by 400% by adding a maximum of three content units to their pages.

Watch this video to see why these publishers made the change and continue to check our blog for more optimization tips. To hear what other publishers have to say and to get involved in the conversation, follow AdSense on Google+.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg4rbX2pUDs

Visit our Help Center to learn more about best practices for balancing ad units and page content, and to learn how to measure the effect of multiple ad units.

Posted by Julia Eckstein - Inside AdSense Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/14/2012 08:45:00 AM

Follow our AdSense +page and catch our upcoming Hangouts On Air

We started our AdSense +page a few months ago to connect with you and regularly share information. Since the launch of the +page, you've provided great feedback and made it clear that you're constantly yearning to learn more. Over the next couple of months, we'll be hosting a series of Hangouts On Air to provide you with additional information and help you build connections within the publisher community. We'll be covering a variety of topics, including how to:

Fix crawler errors
Establish a Google+ strategy
Use DoubleClick for Publishers Small Business
Understand your AdSense payments
Navigate performance reports
Implement optimization tips

Be sure to follow the AdSense +page to learn about the specific dates and times of the Hangouts On Air. We'll also post the recorded videos to our YouTube channel, in case you're not able to watch a live session.

We hope to Hangout with you soon!

Posted by Jamie Firkus - Inside AdSense Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/16/2012 11:00:00 AM

PubTalk: Publishers discuss testing colors for their ads

We're back with the third video from our Google+ Hangout with AdSense publishers! Have you tried our publisher suggestions of adding a third content ad unit or changing ad sizes and placements?

Another feature publishers Katie and Gene Hamilton of diyornot.com, David and Jan Moncrief of txantiquemall.com, and Voitek Klimczyk of simplyadditions.com tried was changing the text and background colors of their ad units. Experimenting with colors and tracking different ad styles provides insight on clickthrough rates and revenue uplift which will help you decide how to make future changes to your site.

Watch this video to see how these publishers test colors and follow AdSense on Google+ to see how publishers use AdSense's different customizable features.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWA5kkIn1BE&feature=youtu.be

This post is part of the PubTalk series of conversations with publishers.

Posted by Julia Eckstein - Inside AdSense Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/20/2012 09:55:00 AM

Join us at our Pan-European AdSense In Your City event in Dublin - September 2012

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From: Inside AdSense Team <inside-adsense+blogger@google.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:40 PM
Subject: [Inside AdSense] Join us at our Pan-European AdSense In Your City event in Dublin - September 2012
To: inside-adsense@googlegroups.com

We're excited to announce that we're organizing our Pan-European AdSense In Your City event! This event will take place in September, in our European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. We're offering an option of dates on either Friday, September 7th or Saturday, September 8th, and the same content will be delivered on both dates.

We'll focus on identifying new revenue opportunities and best practices for growing your business with AdSense. Each session includes workshops on optimization tips, DoubleClick for Publishers Small Business, and mobile. Publishers who attend will also receive a one-on-one site review with custom recommendations from an AdSense optimization specialist. In addition, there will be plenty of time for networking with other publishers -- we frequently hear from AdSense in Your City attendees that one of the best parts of the event is getting the opportunity to interact with and learn from other AdSense publishers.

If you'd like to attend this AdSense in Your City event in Dublin, please fill out our interest form. Space is limited at each event and we won't be able to accommodate all requests, so sign up quickly if you'd like to attend! We'll do our best to include as many interested publishers as possible. In the meantime, we recommend ensuring you're opted in to receiving 'Special Offer' emails so we can reach you in the future.

We hope to see you in Dublin!

Posted by Aude Rigaud, AdSense in Your City Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/22/2012 10:10:00 AM

Social Fridays: Help your site stand out with the +1 button

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From: Inside AdSense Team <inside-adsense+blogger@google.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:40 PM
Subject: [Inside AdSense] Social Fridays: Help your site stand out with the +1 button
To: inside-adsense@googlegroups.com

As Google+ has continued to evolve and grow, we've released a number of features and tools to help you engage with your users in new ways. We've heard from publishers that they'd like to ensure they're getting set up in the right way on Google+, and so we're kicking off a Social Friday series right here on our blog. Our goal is to help you make the most of Google+, discover ways to reach new audiences, and use our resources to make data-driven decisions.

Even if you've already gotten started with Google+, we encourage you to follow along over the next few weeks to make sure you're using our social tools optimally for your website and business. Today, we'll start off our series with a look at the +1 button, and show you how you can track its impact with Webmaster Tools.

The +1 button helps you expand your audience by enabling users to recommend your content to their friends and contacts. When a user clicks the +1 button on your site, they'll be able to share your site's link with their contacts via their Google+ stream. This can help you extend your reach beyond just your existing fans, to their circles of friends. Be sure to place the +1 button on your pages so that users can endorse your content -- we recommend locations like the header and footer of your pages, and also on pages that tend to be shared frequently, like articles or product pages.

In addition, +1 recommendations will be visible to a user's friends and contacts on relevant Google.com search results, which can help your site stand out. For example, let's say John is a fan of your content and he clicks a +1 button on your site. When John's friend Sue is logged in to her Google Account and performs a Google.com search that includes your site in the results, she may see an annotation below your site that tells her John has +1'd it. This annotation may help your site stand out to Sue because it's personally relevant to her. Overall, as potential visitors see recommendations from their friends and contacts among their Google search results, you could see more, and better qualified, traffic coming from Google.

So how is the +1 button performing for you so far? You can find out using Webmaster Tools with these three reports:

Activity: View the total number of times your pages have been +1'd.
Audience: See anonymous, aggregate information about the people who +1'd your pages, including the total number of unique users, their location, and their age and gender.
Search impact: Compare the clickthrough rate (CTR) of +1'd search impressions to the general clickthrough rate for all impressions to determine how +1's are affecting your site's performance.

Get started with the +1 button on your pages today -- just generate a short snippet of code and paste it into the HTML of your site, as you do with your AdSense ad code. You'll also be able to customize the size and layout for your site. For help with the +1 button, visit our Google+ Webmaster FAQ.

Thanks for joining us for our first Social Fridays post. Next week, we'll discuss Google+ pages for your business and how to get set up optimally. Do you have feedback or best practices to share with other publishers about today's content? Feel free to leave us a comment on our AdSense +page.

Posted by Arlene Lee - Inside AdSense Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 8/24/2012 06:10:00 AM

Social Fridays: See how your content was shared on Google+

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From: Inside AdSense Team <inside-adsense+blogger@google.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:42 PM
Subject: [Inside AdSense] Social Fridays: See how your content was shared on Google+
To: inside-adsense@googlegroups.com

Every Friday, we're posting Google+ tips to help publishers make the most of all of the features and resources available. Be sure to check back each week for the latest in our educational Social Fridays series!

Since we started 4 weeks ago, we've walked you through placing the +1 button on your pages, creating and verifying your Google+ page, and adding the Google+ badge to your site. You've completed the main steps for getting set up on Google+ and are posting regularly -- but do you know how your content is spreading? In today's Social Fridays post, we'll show you how to find this information using Google+ Ripples.

With Ripples, you can now see how your public content was reshared over time on Google+, and what users were saying about it. To try it out, just find a public post and select 'View Ripples' from the drop-down menu in the upper right-hand corner of the post. You'll see a number of circles that each correspond to a user that has reshared your content, and inside the circle you'll see the people who have reshared the link from that person (and so on). Circles are roughly sized based on the relative influence of that person -- so the larger a person's circle is, the more reshares have resulted from their original reshare.

You can also see who has been discussing your content on Google+, even if they didn't reshare your original post. Circles on the Ripples page that aren't connected to other circles represent individuals who have independently shared your content. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to play an animated version of the visualization that shows how your link was shared over time. You can also see a line graph that illustrates activity on the post.

With this information, you can identify key influencers or top contributors in your community who are helping to get the word out about your content -- whether or not it was reshared directly from your +page. You might want to reach out to these engaged individuals to ask for their feedback about your content, or even set up a Hangout to talk in more detail with them.

Give Ripples a try today, and see how some of your recent content has been publicly reshared. For more information, watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j0I1a_Aw4g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j0I1a_Aw4g

Want more reports and metrics? Be sure to join us here again next Friday, when we'll walk you through the reporting tools you can use to track the performance of your +page. Until then, let us know on our AdSense +page if you've found any interesting insights via Ripples.

Posted by Arlene Lee - Inside AdSense Team

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Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 9/21/2012 11:10:00 AM

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