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New year with new opportunities

What’s your New Year's resolution for 2016? If it’s doing what you love while earning money, you can start turning your passion into profit by signing up for AdSense and earning money from your content.  For more information, see our site or hear from our publishers.


If you already have an AdSense account, consider the following alternatives to earn money online:
  • Google Consumer Surveys: Earn incremental revenue beyond ads each time visitors complete short, user-friendly surveys in exchange for access to your content.
  • Google Contributor: With Contributor, anyone can pay a monthly subscription to see fewer ads across the Web. Each time an ad is removed on your site, a thank-you message appears in its place and Contributor helps to fund your content.
  • Google AdMob: If you have an app, you can gain insights about your users, drive more in-app purchases, and maximize your ad revenue with AdMob. 
Happy New Year and see you online!

Google AdSense Team

Source: Inside AdSense


Explore opportunities with the new AdSense Optimization tab

Today, we’re excited to announce the new Optimization tab, a dedicated place in your AdSense account that shows tailored tips for your site. This new tab is a one-stop shop for all the resources that could help you increase your revenue and user engagement on your site.

With the new Optimization tab, you can:
  • Explore new opportunities and features that could boost your income
  • Run A/B experiments and check results to make better decisions for your site
  • Find valuable optimization resources in one place
The new Optimization tab is currently in beta and available for a limited group of publishers. It will roll out to all AdSense publishers over the coming weeks. Check your account now to see if you have this exciting feature in your account!
To create a great optimization experience for you, we’re planning to add more features to the new Optimization tab, including new experiment features and a host of new opportunities. We hope that this new tab will help you explore more opportunities for your site and continue to turn your passion into profit.

We’d love to hear your feedback. Let us know what you think in the comments section below.



Posted by Ben Birt
Software Engineer

Source: Inside AdSense


2015 Year in Review

2015 was a year with new and exciting AdSense updates. Let’s have a look at 2015 to recap all the product enhancements launched this year.


New features for your AdSense account:


  • New sign-up flow: Signing up for AdSense is now faster and easier. Now, you have immediate access to your AdSense account once you sign up for AdSense.
  • New AdSense website and mobile apps: We announced our new AdSense website with a new design and new publisher stories. We also updated the AdSense app with a fresh new look using material design and added some new features. 
  • New AdSense performance reports: To give you quick and easy access to these reports, we introduced a new design for AdSense reporting with a new dashboard. With the redesigned Performance reports tab, you now have more control and flexibility, allowing you to better understand your AdSense earnings and performance.
  • Improved transparency in payments: We've received feedback from you that you want to know more about the differences between estimated and finalized earnings. Now, you’re able to see the invalid activity deductions that cause these differences. 
  • Matched content: To help you grow the number of pageviews on your site and increase user engagement, we launched Matched content. It’s a free content recommendation tool that promotes your content to your site visitors. Matched content generates contextually relevant and personalized article recommendations from the pages on your website. Have a look at the site management settings in your AdSense account to see if your sites are eligible to run Matched content.

New features for your ads: 


  • New mobile text ads: This new design allows for higher performance with a more beautiful and user-friendly appearance. The text ads feature elements such as a shaded background and a centered button which bring together the parts of the ad into a cohesive whole. To see these new mobile text ads, choose to show both text and display ads on your site, if you haven’t already done so.
  • Richer text ads: Richer text ads are a new ad format that automatically creates image ads from text ads. They compete for both your text and display, and display-only ad units and could increase your earnings.
  • Improved "Mute this ad" feature: With ‘Mute this ad,’ users have a way to signal that they aren’t interested in certain ads. This feature gives users additional control over ad units. It also helps us find ad placements and creatives that users may not prefer so that we can continue working hard to serve better performing ads on your site.

We’re looking forward to 2016 with lots of new features and formats to improve your AdSense experience.

As always, we’d like to thank you for sharing your feedback. Please keep sharing your thoughts and suggestions and stay tuned for more updates in 2016.

Happy New Year, and see you online in 2016!

Google AdSense Team
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Source: Inside AdSense


Signing up for AdSense is now faster and easier

We’ve made it easier and faster to apply for AdSense and get your account approved.

Starting today, you’ll have immediate access to your AdSense account once you sign up. Previously, when you applied for AdSense, you’d need to wait for your account information to be approved before you could access your account and place ad units on your site. Now you can create ad units and place them on your site right after signing up for AdSense.

To get started with AdSense:
  1. Make sure your website is compliant with the AdSense program policies.
  2. Sign up for an AdSense account by enrolling your site.
  3. Add the AdSense ad code to your site.
It typically takes 48 hours for our specialists to complete the site review after you add the code to your site. Until you pass this review step, your ad units will remain blank. Once your site is approved, ads will be displayed on your site and you can start earning money from your content.

Learn more about the new application process in the AdSense Help Center. This new process is now in place for many countries and we're looking forward to even more publishers joining the AdSense family. Let us know what you think in the comments section below.



Nikos Ioannou
AdSense Software Engineer

Source: Inside AdSense


The AdSense app has a fresh new look

We’ve recently updated the AdSense app with a fresh new look using material design and added some new features. Based on your feedback, we’ve added the following functionality to make it even better:

  • New metrics: View impressions, impression RPM, and CTR of your ads.
  • Support for Hindi and Malay: Use your AdSense app in Malay and Hindi, which have recently joined the AdSense family, as well as in 31 other languages.
  • New reports for Android: Check the performance of different ad sizes, ad types, ad networks, targeting, bid types, and custom date ranges.
  • Today widget for iOS: Check your earnings even quicker on your iPhone in the Today view.

If you haven’t tried the AdSense app yet, download the iOS or Android version today and start checking your AdSense account on the go. Let us know what you think about the new design and what new features you’d like to see in the future.





Posted by Daniel Kenyon-Jones
AdSense Product Manager


Source: Inside AdSense


[Infographic] Hindi content is key to growing an audience in India

Late last year we announced Hindi as the first Indic language supported by AdSense. It means you can earn money by displaying Google AdSense ads on Hindi webpages.

But why does Hindi matter? If you have a large user base in India; or you’re looking to grow in this strategic emerging market; catering your content to Hindi speakers is key. Check out this infographic to learn more:
Keen to start creating? Here are our top five tips for publishing Hindi content online:

1. Create Hindi content that is unique and provides value to your users.
Check out Google Trends in Search and YouTube to see what’s popular in India right now. You can also see a selection of high quality Hindi content from fellow publishers at hindiweb.com.

2. Get a professional translation, or have a native speaker review content.
If you plan to translate your site for Hindi speakers, ensure you provide good quality translations. Avoid auto-translation as it risks a low quality user experience. Read the Webmaster Quality Guidelines to learn more.

3. Be multi-screen and fast-loading.
Delight users with a mobile-friendly site that works well even on low-bandwidth connections. Explore these multi-screen guidelines to get your site ready.

4. Use Devanagari script. 
Access up to 40 free, beautiful fonts for publishing your Hindi content and benefit from better indexing of your site. Select Devanagari script at Google Fonts to add fonts to your collection.

5. Monetize with Google AdSense.
You can use your existing Google AdSense account and create a new ad unit to get started. If you’re new to AdSense, sign up now. 

We look forward to seeing the content you create in Hindi.





Posted by Amelia Walkley
Marketing Communications Specialist

Source: Inside AdSense


Increasing advertiser competition on your site with the new richer text ads

To help you make more money for your image-only ad units, we previously launched the magazine ad format. Today, we’re happy to introduce richer text ads, a new ad format that automatically creates image ads from text ads. The new richer text ads compete both for your text and display, and display-only ad units and could increase your earnings even more.

This new ad format, inspired by material design, adheres closely to the advertiser’s brand by using their logos and brand colors. This enables brand advertisers who are particularly sensitive to how their text advertisements are displayed to spend more on the Google Display Network, thereby increasing competition for the ad units on your site.


If you currently have text and display or display-only ads on your site, richer text ads will automatically be set up for your site. If you’d prefer not to show richer text ads, you can disable them through the Enhanced display ads option in the Allow & block ads tab in your account.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on our new richer text ad format! Share your feedback in the comments section below this post.



Posted by Daniel Kaemmerer
AdSense Product Manager

Source: Inside AdSense


Introducing Matched content: a new way to help your visitors discover content on your site

Today we're introducing Matched content, a free content recommendation tool for AdSense publishers that promotes your content to your site visitors. Matched content generates contextually relevant and personalized article recommendations from the pages on your website.

With Matched content, your visitors can:

  • Discover relevant articles on your site
  • Spend more time on your pages
  • Engage more with your content

This new feature can help you increase your site's page views and ad impressions, and could increase your ad revenue by making it easy for your visitors to find your content. To provide a great experience for you and your site visitors, Matched content is available for sites with multiple pages and high volumes of traffic. Have a look at the site management settings in your AdSense account to see if your sites are eligible to run Matched content.
Adding Matched content units to your site now could help you to grow the number of page views on your site and increase user engagement. You can get the most out of this new tool by checking the best practices in the AdSense Help Center.

We'd love to hear your thoughts about this new feature in the comments section below this post.

Posted by Tobias Maurer, Matched Content Product Manager
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Source: Inside AdSense