We’ve heard from a few of you that even though you’ve already reached $10 in earnings, you’re not seeing the prompt to remove payment holds on your account. So we turned to our payments specialist Dan Marcus:
“Every day, our system runs a check to determine which accounts have reached $10 for the first time within [...]

You may have seen today’s announcement that Google has completed its acquisition of DoubleClick.
The combined company will offer more tools for publishers, enhance productivity and provide additional revenue opportunities so you can focus on creating more relevant content and improve the user experience on your websites. We will also work with our existing publishers to [...]

Welcome back to the second part of our series designed to help you better understand revenue fluctuations. If you’re just joining us now, or if you’d just like to brush up on those reporting terms before
we dive in again, feel free to visit our previous post from earlier in the week.
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You love your website and you want it to thrive. You create content, manage your community, and keep an eye on your AdSense performance. If AdSense revenue is down, you’re understandably concerned. If AdSense revenue is up, you’re happy, but you want to know why. Revenue fluctuations are obvious enough when they occur, but the [...]

When Les Kenny and his family launched their do-it-yourself (D.I.Y.) website www.buildeazy.com in 2001 solely as a hobby site, they had no idea of the impact Google AdSense would have on their lives.
Les had spent most of his life building in both Sydney and Auckland, but his hobby was designing projects and writing about them. [...]

When we talk about optimization in AdSense, we usually focus on testing different formats, colors, and locations for your ad units. But it’s just as important, if not more so, to optimize your site’s content to make it as user-friendly as possible. Which homepage design do your users respond most to? Which headline or graphic [...]

Every now and then, we update the AdSense Terms and Conditions to make sure they’re in line with policies across Google, and to prepare for future changes to the products and services we offer. As part of these regular updates, you’ll soon sign in to your account and see that the Terms have been updated, [...]

We know that publishers are quickly adding video to their sites and looking for ways to earn additional revenue. If this sounds like you, look no further than AdSense for video, our solution for qualifying publishers. You may remember that we announced AdSense for video as a pilot last May.
Since then, we’ve tested a variety [...]

It’s that time of year again: St. Valentine’s Day, when we profess our love to those nearest and dearest to us. We weren’t sure how effective it would be to send publishers perfumed checks or chocolate-covered PINs; instead, here’s our oh-so-original ode to you:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
We heart AdSense publishers,
Especially blog readers like you.
(Hm, [...]