Adsense Has A New Terms Of Agreement?

I signed in to my Adsense account today and found that after I logged in, it took me to their new Terms and Agreement page. I didn't know that they were going to do this and I will have to do a little searching around to see if I can find out more about why they have a new Terms and Agreement. If you know anything about this please be sure to let me (and us) know.

What Are "Adsense Pirates"?

What are "Adsense Pirates"? Well these are people who will contact you - usually via email - and tell you that they will cause invalid clicks on your Adsense site unless you contact them.



Once you contact them they will say something along the lines of if you don't give them a piece of your adsense earnings then they will put invalid clicks on your site and then that will cause Adsense to cancel your adsense account. (Which by the way is very hard to get back once your adsense account is cancelled - especially for invalid clicks!)



I have been to a number of forum sites where people will ask - even beg - people to click on the ads to their adsense sites (so that they will earn more adsense money). I sometimes wonder if Adsense themself have seen these kind of forum sites where people are begging people to click on their adsense ads.


I do remember seeing where Adsense prohibits this kind of thing on sites that have Adsense ads on them but I don't think that they are aware of these forum sites where people are begging others to click on their adsense ads.



This adsense "pirate" thing was in the news a while back but recently others have been posting about it. For example someone reported that they got a comment on their blog where someone said that if they didn't want invalid clicks on their blog then they should contact them. Fortunately this person knew about the Adsense "pirate" thing and they simply ignored the comment. (Another good reason to have your blog comments moderated!).



Personally, I have a stats tracker on my sites and I have seen instances of invalid clicks on some of my sites and I have seen that Adsense simply discounts them as invalid BUT Adsense did NOT disable my account!



However, if you do get this kind of message then you should send it to Adsense as I am sure that they would be very interested in this kind of thing and the people who are sending you this kind of message!

"Your Adsense Payment Is On It's Way"..........

I got this email the other day and was quite suspicious of it! I did a little checking around and I found out from Rose that it seems to be a legitimate email from them.

Rose said she posted a query about this on one of the adsense-related forum boards and that she got a reply almost right away from one of the senior members of the forum who said that the email was legitimate.

It seems that Adsense has been sending this kind of email for a while now but this has been the first time that I think I ever got one.

I'm not saying 100% that you should trust this email because I was suspicious when I saw that the links in the email didn't go directly to adsense so I didn't click on them!

As always if you are suspicious about an email then you should go directly to the source and NOT click on the links that are provided in the email. If you have your suspicions then you should go directly to the Adsense site, send them an email asking them if it was them that legitimately sent you the email!

Notice Something DIFFERENT About Your Adsense Account?

It seems that there has been a little cosmetic change to your Adsense account!

It seems that Adsense has changed the way your Adsense account page looks. According to their blog they assure us Adsense publishers that these changes do not affect the way our Adsense earnings are calculated.

Did you already see this? If not, take a look at the screen shot below:



As you can see the top portion of the screenshot shows the way your Adsense page looked BEFORE Adsense changed it. The top of your adsense page used to say "Today's Earnings" but NOW it says "Today's ESTIMATED Earnings!

According to Adsense this change that they have made will not affect your Adsense earnings.

Basically what they are saying is that your adsense earnings aren't officially tabulated until your adsense earning numbers are verified (which usually occurs around the 10th of the next month before they send your Adsense payment).

I can honestly say that I have seen this happen on my own Adsense account where at the end of the month there will be an Adsense earning total but by the 10th of the next month that Adsense earning number has changed - in my case it changed to a higher number - thank goodness.

A more detailed explanation of this can be found on the official Adsense blog by clicking here.

Guess What! Adsense Publisher Being Blackmailed!

Adsense Pirates?

I could hardly believe it when I read about it!

It seems that one of the Adsense publishers was being blackmailed from someone (the place of origin seems to be from Algeria) who was using their Adsense search engine to click multiple times on the Adsense ads. Of course that made the Adsense publisher's adsense earnings go up but its also a red flag to invalid click activity!.

After the Adsense publsiher's adsense earnings went up they received an email from the blackmailer wanting the Adsense publisher to send them half of the Adsense money that they earned because of the increased clicks otherwise the blackmailer would continue to make many Adsense clicks thereby causing a red flag to Adsense in the hopes that Adsense would ban the Adsense publisher's account!

Fortunately from what I know so far, the Adsense publisher didn't give in to the blackmailer but posted about their experience online.

You can find out more about this by clicking here.

Are You Intersted In Taking An Adsense Survey?

If you are an Adsense publisher then you might be interested in taking a survey that they are offering.

So far I can't see any mention of one getting paid or given a gift of some kind.

Adsense says the survey is to help them receive feedback on how they can make their Adsense program better.

You can take a look at the survey by clicking here but when you go to the link you'll have to sign in to your Adsense account first.

The Adsense Site Will Be Down For Maintenance Today!

On Saturday, November 14, 2009, the Adsense site will be down for maintenance for about 4 hours!

These site maintenance days occur on a fairly regular basis

Here is an excerpt from Adsense:

On 11/14/09, our engineers will be performing site maintenance from approximately 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM PST.

Adsense Makes Western Union Payments Available In Some Areas....

According to a recent announcement from Adsense, they are now making Western Union payments available in Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Virgin Islands (British), Ecuador, Costa Rica & Paraguay.

You can read more about this by clicking here.

Want To Be Interviewed By Adsense?

Adsense will be conducting interviews to find out how the can make the Adsense program better! Please be advised that only those in North America can participate in the interviews! Adsense says that they are going to expand the program to other countries in the future.

You should also know that not all applications will be accepted. But if you would like to request to be interviewed you can go to their online form by clicking here.

If your application is accepted you may receive a credit as well!

Adsense Getting Rid Of Video Units!

It seems that Adsense is retiring its video units! Basically this means that Adsense will no longer use the video units as Adsense earners. You can find out more about this by clicking here.

Keep Up-To-Date With The Latest Adsense News!

You can keep up with the latest news concerning Adsense by following them on Twitter!

Twitter is sort of like an instant message kind of thingie that lets you know what's currently going on at Adsense.

Adsense's Twitter Site

The Adsense Site Will Be Down For Maintenance Today!

Just in case you go to check your Adsense earnings today, please be advised that the Adsense site will be down for maintenance today! Although "the powers that be" assure us that our Adsense accounts will still be earning money.

The Adsense site is expected to be back up and running sometime later in the late afternoon.