Jack Chou in the official Adsense blog announces the launch of Site authentication.
With Site Authentication, Adsense's crawler can access your pasword protected webpages. Now all you have to do is provide it with a username and a password and the crawler will spider your site while also suggesting relevant ads.
When your blog or website is more successful, its obvious that you are going to invest more time and money to update it and host it properly. Best way to monetize your blog is undoubtedly with Google Adsense. This is a very simple and proven solution that already pays for hundreds of thousands of blogs across the globe.
Many webmasters from Germany to Australia in a thread at Webmaster World have informed that Google has automatically selected offers without the AdSense publishers testing it out himself.
One webmaster writes, "What I don't understand (hypothetically) is how they can simply start running CPA ads on my site. I thought the whole point was for the publisher to go in and manually select relevant offers they wish to participate in? "
Google always tries to go ahead of time and presently Google is testing AdSense for Mobile. Self Made Minds revealed the news saying that he has received some sort of notification related to this. So, at last Goggle is working on this feature. Presently, one can put Adsense on normal web sites and RSS feeds. With this new feature it will be possible for user to place their ads on the mobile version of their web site. This will really give a new zest to the mobile web search platform.
As seen on a Webmaster World forum, the webpage for keyword "top queries data" in "AdSense for search," does not load.
Reporting the abnormality first was one webmaster who wrote:
Following the March launch of Referrals beta, Google's Inside AdSense blog informs that its latest avatar has been unveiled as Referral 2.0 in the post “Referrals 2.0 launches to all AdSense publishers.â€
Key benefits of the new Referrals 2.0:
Google Adsense now offers 'square, slightly rounded, or very rounded corners' options for your advertisements, reports the official Inside AdSense blog.

“To get started with these new ad shapes, visit the 'AdSense Setup' tab in your account. As with all format options like sizes and colors, different corner styles will perform better for different publishers. We recommend that you choose the corner style that best matches the look and feel of your sites. Please keep in mind that if your page background color, ad background color, and ad border color are all the same, these new corners won't be visible.â€
Knowing the frequency of their own updates/changes/additions etc, Google AdSense Blog almost embarrassed, once again does the needful of updating their loyal webmasters on updates in Program policies.
AdSense publishers have to comply with the new policies. Two of main changes are:
- If you use online advertising, you ads have to meet the guidelines be it AdWords or through any other advertising program.
In an extremely useful and relevant post Jennifer Slegg writes about how “Google now targets AdSense on pages behind password protectionâ€.
With this new service AdSense Publishers can go beyond a login screen and place all the ads you want through an authentication process. Previously, ads were also focused on 'page, simply "themed" ads, or worse, display PSAs'. This feature in a few easy steps can land you behind whichever login screen you choose.
A thread at Webmaster World reports “3rd Party AdSense Click Trackers Disabledâ€.
News about the tracker being disabled was first posted when a webmaster wrote, " Today I noticed in my asrep tool that it is no longer tracking adsense ads that are clicked on…..After comparing notes with a few others….looks like things have changed in the Google code.I used the tool a lot to find the MFAs to block…..".