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For years I have been telling publishers who are running a business selling a product or service that they should be very wary of using Google AdSense on their sites for a number of reasons. First, people using the site that might be purchasing from you are going to wonder why you are trying to [...]

If you were one of the publishers who ended up with your AdSense account on hold for payments due to an AdSense bug, you were reassured that payments would be processed to be included at the end of February.  Originally, AdSense Pro William posted on their support forums that payments would be included in the [...]

If you have been watching the new fonts AdSense has been testing over the past couple of months, looks like the testing paid off because now publishers have just been given a new option in their AdSense accounts to choose their own fonts. The new options are “Standard AdSense font family”, which varies by ad unit but is [...]

If you were one of the many people who were in a panic last week after AdSense stats ceased to update for about 12 hours, Google is giving you plenty of warning this time… there will be maintenance this Saturday. Our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance this Saturday, February 21st. While you won’t [...]

If you nearly had a heart attack when you logged into your AdSense account today and saw you were earning only a mere fraction of what you were expecting, you are not alone   Google AdSense stats have been stuck for at least 8-9 hours, and it seems to be affecting all publishers.  Ads are still being served [...]

The news that Google in Japan has been using a marketing company that utilized a pay per post campaign of a new keyword widget has been pretty hot news here at SMX West.  And of course, if you are doing search engine optimization, you are probably aware that Google has taken a stand against pay [...]

If you have a site with a lot of mobile traffic, you might want to check out the latest addition to the AdSense family, AdSense for Mobile Search.  Instead of using your own mobile search tool on your site, you can instead use the Google Mobile Search tool, and share in any generated revenue when [...]

Did you not receive your expected AdSense payment at the end of January or beginning of February?  Well, the problem could be a bug that seemed to be  placing AdSense accounts on an invisible hold, and if your account is on hold, payments are not issued.  So as a publisher, your account would look like business as [...]

Publishers have the belief that bigger is always better… and it looks like AdSense is feeling the same way at the moment.  Google AdSense is now testing a much larger font in AdSense ad units… and when you compare the two same sized ad units side-by-side, one with the new larger font and the other [...]