Troubleshooting tips part IV: Ad controls and filtering

We understand that when showing ads on your site, there may be a few you’d like to prevent from appearing. There are a number of ad control and filtering tools in your AdSense account, which we’ve listed below to help you determine which ones are right for you

Site maintenance on Saturday, February 20

This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You’ll be unable to log in to your AdSense and Ad Manager accounts during this time, but we’ll continue serving ads to your pages and tracking your clicks, impressions, and earnings as usual

Holiday wishes from the AdSense team

We’d like to wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us on the AdSense team. And if you’re following the lunar calendar, we’d also like to wish you a Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Posted by Dia Muthana – Inside AdSense team

More webinars coming your way

We’ve just published a new webinar schedule for the next month. In our live webinars, we’ll highlight changes you can make to your ad implementation in order to maximize your AdSense revenue. We’re also trying something new with our upcoming webinars: we’ve set up open Google Moderator discussions , where you can raise questions related to the specific webinar topic or vote on questions from other participants

Donate your AdSense earnings to help Haiti

As you may have already seen , Google has made various efforts to contribute to the earthquake relief response in Haiti. We’ve heard repeatedly from AdSense publishers on forums about wanting to help, and today, we’re pleased to let you know how you can do so with your AdSense earnings. We’re currently accepting donations from AdSense publishers with an unpaid account balance through January 31, 2010.

Will Orbiting Space Colonies Trump Planets? (A Galaxy Classic)

Expanding into space has been a dream of scifi since before the genre had a name.  Adventure, overcrowding, the chance of tall blue-skinned women – the reasons are manifold but the idea is always the same, because the need to advance and prosper in new locations is fundamental to our species.  The fact it’s usually because we ruined the last place (or we don’t like the people who live there) is best ignored. There are many largely unaddressed questions, both moral and practical that have not been presented alongside the space colonization platform. It’s called “reality” and it’s not nearly as rosy as the dream.

Troubleshooting tips part I: Implementing your ad code

Today, we’re beginning a troubleshooting series to help you diagnose and solve common issues with your ads, search boxes, and account functionality. We’re kicking things off with a look at how to correctly implement your ad code and an explanation of why ads may not appear on your pages at times. First, the best way to ensure ads are served correctly is to copy and paste the code exactly as it’s provided in your account.

A General Idea on Passports for children

In accordance with current changes in the passport law, every child needs a passport of their own in order to travel abroad to any country outside the United Sates. Even for travel to Canada, minors will need a Canadian passport application child. Special forms are there and every child must come into view in person to apply, together with both parents.

An update from AdSense about the response to Haiti Earthquake

We’ve heard from many of our AdSense publishers about your concern for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. We wanted to take this opportunity to let you know about some of the efforts Google is making to help the people of Haiti respond to this catastrophe.

Happy New Year

Wishing all our publishers a very Happy New Year! Posted by Dia Muthana – Inside AdSense Team