August 2007 - Posts
The AdSence blog had an entry about AdSence on Commerce Site. They showcased Zlio.com. I must admit and nice integration of AdSence and Zlio.
This was my first introduction to Zlio. An interesting concept. I am not sure how successful anyone can be at building these Zlio sites, I suppose like AdSense you can make a few dollars.
The concept behind Zlio, best I can tell, is that the site advertises products available by other online retailers. The retailers pay commission on sales. I just don't know how likely you are to drive traffic to the Zlio sites to encourage people to purchase from your site.
Would a non-profit be able to ask their members to use the site? Thus the organization could raise some money. I suppose that is an approach. However, to build a store with Zlio that would have to use that broad range products would take quite some time to add to the store.
I am going to play with this some more and see what happens. I will try and report back.
Have a nice weekend.
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AdSense Help Forum or visit the
AdSense Help Center for more immediate answers.
In the meantime, we hope you also take time off to observe this holiday and enjoy BBQs, picnics, and fireworks over the weekend!
Posted by Arlene Lee - AdSense Publisher Support
A few months ago, I mentioned how
e-commerce sites could use AdSense to increase their overall revenues without changing their current business models. Today
Zlio.com has taken it to the next level by using the AdSense API to allow their users to implement this strategy.
The core service of Zlio is to allow internet users to create and run their own internet shops. After a quick registration process, users can pick from millions of products and earn commission on every item bought from their ZlioShops. Aside from choosing their products, future shopowners can select from a few different templates to give their shops the look and feel they want. Finally, these shopowners can add text to describe the products and highlight their favorites.
Today, as added functionality, Zlio users can also add Google ads to their shops. Very much like what we currently offer via
Blogger, users can pick shop templates that already include AdSense ad units without ever having to dig into the HTML code of their shop. We hope that this new API will help bring AdSense to existing Zlio users, and also that current AdSense publishers will try Zlio as a way to increase their current AdSense revenue.
The screenshot above shows an example of a shop offering scuba diving items -- you might notice that two AdSense ad units and one link unit have been placed on the page. From a revenue perspective, 60% of all the revenue generated from AdSense will go to the shopowner.
If you wish to create your own shop and associate it with your current AdSense account, you can visit Zlio.com and follow these steps:
- Select a general template for your shop.
- Create your own shop by choosing among the available products.
- Once you have selected products, go to My Zlio Shop > Revenue Model > AdSense for my shop.
- If you aren't an AdSense publisher yet, you can apply for an account through Zlio. If you already have an AdSense account, enter your AdSense e-mail address and your current zip code.
- Log into AdSense and grant access to Zlio to use your publisher ID by clicking on My Account > Account Access.
- Go back to your ZlioShop, where you'll be able to view your products and relevant Google Ads.
If you wish to learn more about the AdSense API and how you can use it to integrate AdSense sign-up and ad creation into your site, visit
the AdSense API website.
Posted by Etienne Jambou - AdSense Optimization Team
Written by Ben D'Angelo, Search Quality TeamFirst, a brief recap: In late 2005, we started
emailing webmasters to let them know that their site is violating our
Webmaster Guidelines and that we have temporarily removed some of their pages from our index. A few months ago we
put these emails on hold due to a number of spoofed messages being sent from outside Google, primarily to German webmasters. Then, in mid-July, we
launched Message Center in our webmaster console, which allows us to send messages to verified site owners.
While Message Center is great for verified site owners, it doesn't allow us to notify webmasters who aren't registered in Google's
Webmaster Tools. For this reason, we plan to resume sending emails in addition to the Message Center notifications. Please note that, as before, our emails will not include attachments. Currently, the Message Center won't keep messages waiting if you haven't previously registered, but we hope to add that feature in the next few months. We'll keep you posted as things change.
I have blogged a couple of times about the Gmail Video. While the editing and judging is done.
Check out the Final Product! Pretty funny.
YouTube has be integrated into the Google Data API. That will make for some interesting applications I am sure. The YouTube folks are pretty creative and strange bunch (strange in a good way).
Give them a nice API and they will go crazy. Lets see what comes of this.
Stay toned!
Posted by Stephanie Liu
, YouTube data API Team
As promised at
Developer Day, YouTube is now available as a GData API. Search through YouTube's index and get detailed video, user, and playlist information in the form of GData feeds. If you haven't built something with YouTube yet, now's a great time to
get started!
For developers using the old REST/XML-RPC API, please see the
migration guide for more information.
Read all the details about our new release over at the
YouTube API Announcement Blog.
I'm looking forward to seeing some new faces in our
developer forum!
We've heard that many publishers are having trouble viewing referral 2.0 ads on their pages, and we'd like to explain some of the most common reasons why this might be.
First, keep in mind that not all referral ads are available in all sizes. For instance, most horizontal referral ad units smaller than 180x60, square referral ad units smaller than 125x125, and text links are only available at this time for Google products such as AdSense or AdWords. This means that if you generate code for referral ads in an unsupported size, you won't see any referrals shown on your webpages. To avoid this issue, we recommend first selecting categories or products for your referrals before selecting a size at this time.
Similarly, you may not see the referral ads you've selected on your pages if you've grouped a number of referral ads into your Ad Shopping Cart which are each available in different sizes. If this is the case, you may wish to try regenerating your referral code with a particular ad format in mind -- this way, you can be sure to select products available in that format.
Here are several other reasons your chosen referral ads may not show:
- The particular referral ad you've chosen is not available in your country. When generating your code, you can view the ads available for specific countries by clicking the 'change' link above the referrals wizard.
- You've unselected the 'Pick best performing ads' checkbox for a referral where the advertiser has run out of budget or ended the campaign. To take advantage of the available inventory of related products, we recommend leaving this box checked.
- You've added more than three referral units to your page. Our current policy allows a maximum of three referral ad units on any policy-compliant page.
- Our system has determined that your pages contain potentially mature or sensitive content. However, as your content changes, you may begin to see referral ads appearing.
- The referral ad code may have been modified. Be sure to copy the code exactly as it appears in your account and paste it directly onto your pages.
Please know that we're working as quickly as we can to fine-tune the process of
generating referral code. Also, we appreciate all of your feedback on referrals 2.0 so far, and we encourage you to
let us know how we can keep improving AdSense.
Posted by Rajiv Sud - AdSense Publisher Support
I'm happy to announce that Webmaster Tools is expanding support for webmasters outside of the English-speaking world, by supporting
Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). IDNA provides a way for site owners to have domains that go beyond the domain name system's limitations of English letters and numbers. Prior to IDNA, Internet host names could only be in the 26 letters of the English alphabet, the numbers 0-9, and the hyphen character. With IDNA support, you'll now be able to add your sites that use other character sets, and organize them easily on your Webmaster Tools Dashboard.
Let's say you wanted to add
http://北京大学.cn/ (Peking University) to your Webmaster Tools account before we launched IDNA support. If you typed that in to the "Add Site" box, you'd get back an error message that looks like this:
Some webmasters discovered a workaround. Internally, IDNA converts nicely encoded
http://北京大学.cn/ to a format called
Punycode, which looks like
http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn/. This allowed them to diagnose and view information about their site, but it looked pretty ugly. Also, if they had more than one IDNA site, you can imagine it would be pretty hard to tell them apart.
Since we now support IDNA throughout Webmaster Tools, all you need to do is type in the name of your site, and we will add it correctly. Here is what it looks like if you attempt to add
http://北京大学.cn/ to your account:
If you are one of the webmasters who discovered the workaround previously (i.e., you have had sites listed in your account that look like
http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn/), those sites will now automatically display correctly.
We'd love to hear your questions and feedback on this new feature; you can write a comment below or post in the Google Webmaster Tools section of our Webmaster Help Group. We'd also appreciate suggestions for other ways we can improve our international support. 
Written by Trevor FoucherI'm happy to announce that Webmaster Tools is expanding support for webmasters outside of the English-speaking world, by supporting Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). IDNA provides a way for site owners to have domains that go beyond the domain name system's limitations of English letters and numbers. Prior to IDNA, Internet host names could only be in the 26 letters of the English alphabet, the numbers 0-9, and the hyphen character. With IDNA support, you'll now be able to add your sites that use other character sets, and organize them easily on your Webmaster Tools Dashboard.
Let's say you wanted to add http://北京大学.cn/ (Peking University) to your Webmaster Tools account before we launched IDNA support. If you typed that in to the "Add Site" box, you'd get back an error message that looks like this:
Some webmasters discovered a workaround. Internally, IDNA converts nicely encoded http://北京大学.cn/ to a format called Punycode, which looks like http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn/. This allowed them to diagnose and view information about their site, but it looked pretty ugly. Also, if they had more than one IDNA site, you can imagine it would be pretty hard to tell them apart.
Since we now support IDNA throughout Webmaster Tools, all you need to do is type in the name of your site, and we will add it correctly. Here is what it looks like if you attempt to add http://北京大学.cn/ to your account:
If you are one of the webmasters who discovered the workaround previously (i.e., you have had sites listed in your account that look like http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn/), those sites will now automatically display correctly.
We'd love to hear your questions and feedback on this new feature; you can write a comment below or post in the
Google Webmaster Tools section of our Webmaster Help Group. We'd also appreciate suggestions for other ways we can improve our international support.
Posted by Trevor Foucher 
After
counting the days till your AdSense check arrives in the mail, you might plan to sprint straight to the bank. But before you try to achieve a land speed record getting to your local financial institution, here are a few things to keep in mind.
Bank on it?Because bank policies vary throughout the world, we can't say whether a specific bank will be able to accept your AdSense checks. Since all AdSense checks are issued by Citibank, a correspondent relationship between your bank and Citibank is required to process our US Dollar checks. We recommend that you check with your bank to find out if this relationship exists.
Patience is a virtue.Banks take varying amounts of time to clear checks. The exact length of time before funds will be available to you is a question best answered by your bank.
A penny saved...Checks from AdSense are for deposit only; they are not able to be cashed.
Now that you have all the information, we wish you happy spending (or saving) your revenue!
Posted by Vineesha Malkani - AdSense Publisher Support
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google data APIs TeamCheck out the newest addition to Google Calendar,
Calendar Gadgets! We've made it easy to add gadgets to Google Calendar via the
Google Calendar data API. Be sure to tell us about the Calendar Gadgets you've created and share your experience in the
Google Calendar GData API developer forum.
Want a map in Blog? If so Google Maps My maps can help you out. Google Maps is really coming out with some cool stuff. Of course the Geo DieHards are making some really cool Mashups
Google Map Mania, is really keeping on top of it. Check them out if you get chance.
So here is how to get Google My Maps into your blog.
Happy Mapping
AdSense and Blogger have added an new in line ad feature for Blogger users.
This feature allows Blogger users to include ads between posts with out having to edit the template. After doing that with limited success I for one am happy to see this point and click way of adding inline ads. Check out the Inside AdSense: Get inline for all the great screen shots on how to set this up on your blog.
Happy blogging.
We've heard your feedback about wanting to insert Google ads between your blog posts, and we're happy to let you know that Blogger now supports this implementation through the AdSense widget.
Here's all you need to do:
- Log into your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com .
- Visit your blog's Template tab and click on the Page Elements link.
- Click Edit in the Blog Posts section.
- Check the box next to Show Ads Between Posts. You can then select how often you'd like your ads to appear, such as once after every post or once after every other post.
- Customize the ads and click on Save Changes when you're done.
Please note that right now, it's only possible to insert Google ads using this widget, and not AdSense for search boxes or referral units.
For more detailed instructions, please visit Blogger's
Help Center. Lastly, don't forget to check out our
blog optimization tips for ways to improve your ad performance.
Posted by Cathleen Jia - AdSense Publisher Support
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