In the past people used custom-made javascript code and third-party tracking systems to check:

• what page has adsense clicked,
• how many clicks,
• what keyword get more click,
• characteristics of clickers,
• etc.

Now they can do all those just by Analytics itself... no more javascripts, no more third-party sites. I'm personally very happy with this new feature, becaues I've been waiting for it since I started using Analytics nearly 2 years ago.

And here is how other bloggers says about this great event:

Enable Google Analytics for your AdSense Account Now - The functionality went live in October but most AdSense publishers (both US and international) are yet to receive their Analytics invitation from Google. If you can’t afford to wait any longer, here’sa quick tip that should help enable ...

Enable Adsense in Google Analytics - Google announced few months back about integration of Google Adsense with Analytics. The service was in a private beta for long. But, now it is available for all thsose, who demand for it. By enabling Adsense in Analytics, you can watch ...

How to Enable Google Adsense Account Integration with Google Analytics - Recent experiment from Google Adsense and Analytics team is integration of your GoogleAdsense account with Google Analytics. This will help Adsense publisher to get extremely detailed stats about ads via Google Analytics reports. ...

Get Adsense and Analytics Integration in 24hrs - Adsense/Analytics team is so fast and they will almost enable this feature to you within 24hrs(If they want to!). They may not enable this feature to you, if they see something objectionable. In such cases just contact Google and ...

I hope you understand what Google is trying to say. I myself can't find the Adsense's Video Unit link in my account page because I'm not American living in United State of America speaking American English.

Let's wait to see when Google open the door for us non-Americans. Let's promise to that we will forgive them for forgetting the fact that publisher locacation shouldn't be the concern, but the visitors where about is.

This post is an answer to a recent AdSense Help request. The original question is:

How do i link my adsense account with youtube account
it says head for the AdSense Setup tab. Click the video units link and you'll be on your way to setting up your first video unit.
( There is no Video unit link table atall in my account)
tknmurthy.blogspot.com

Recently Google AdSense has updated its Manage Ads page and published a post Manage Ads gives you more ad functionality. Click on the following image for the full version:

How to Show AdSense Units

Now, you can clearly see that there are 2 checkboxes on the left hand side:

View your active AdSense units below. You can also import your old AdSense code to create saved AdSense units. Learn more...

[ ] Show inactive AdSense units [?]
[ ] Show hidden AdSense units [?]

Those check boxes allow you to view the inactive or hidden AdSense units.

How to Hide AdSense Units

Of course, it would be silly if you can show the hidden units but can't hide it. Google is smart enough to recognize the need and hence make the function for you. Previously you have to follow How to Delete AdSense unit in order to hide an ad unit. Now you don't have to.

How? You can see on the right hand side that there is a Hide link, which allow you to hide the AdSense unit on that row without actually deleting it. This is to prevent the code on some page you "might" have from breaking the AdSense system for showing unavailable ad units.

• Help for general issues, anything goes here.
• AdSense Help, for AdSense related issues.
• Programing Help, for HTML related issues.

I'm not a super-expert and can't solve every problem. However, I'm a very open-minded and resourceful person and I wish to help others as much as I can. If you have problems, feel free to ask and I will try my best to help you solve it.

While I neglect in making my own website look good, I'm very interested in making other people's website become better. While I'm not very good at managing my own life, I am good at pointing other people to the right direction. So while reading my blog, if you find something you feel not OK, please tell me and I will try to change it.

I was also a former graduate student, so if you need help on study, you can ask me too. I've done my Bachelor and Diploma of IT majoring in Computer Software Development and Net-Technologies.

What do you think about those pages? What should I do to improve them?

Original post:

Russo is authoring Used Cars Under $1000 and is experiencing some problems with AdSense on his Website. Russo contacted me from the AdSense Help page to ask for basic helps on AdSense. I broke the message down into blocks and answer each of them accordingly:

1. Deleting ad unit
2. Removing Ad blocking software
3. Using synonyms
4. Getting indexed by Google
5. Managing ad unit
6. Putting AdSense on blog

Congratulation, Russo, finally you have your AdSense units to show up on your computer. Your friend sure is over protected and cause you some difficult time there.

1. Deleting ad unit

Question: Yey! I haven't been successful with the actual ads yet. I have posted so many ad codes on my pages that haven't showed up that now I have no idea what is what in my ad manager page. How can we delete them so we can figure out what is what? Answer: How to delete AdSense Ad unit

2. Removing ad blocking software

Question: I also would like to know if there are any other programs that might be on my computer that may be blocking or preventing the ads from showing up.

Answer:

It's a little hard to know what program your computer has. Generally those software have very understandable title with keywords like "Ad", "Block", "Internet Security", etc. related to blocking ads. Norton Internet Security is an example. It's easier to ask your friend to remove all those ad-block software he installed.

Ad-block software are unnecessary if you use Firefox web browser. Firefox is world's most secure Internet browser. It's also run faster and consume less memory compare to other browsers. In term of security, Firefox blocks all kind of pop up (and ad if you want). You can download Firefox here:

After installing Firefox you will want to download some useful extensions here: FireFox add-ons I recommend you install FasterFox extension for faster browsing.

3. Using synonyms

Russo: I read about the amount of content thing, and I'm pretty sure I'm OK with that because I have been trying to think of different words to use so I don't use the same ones all the time. I don't want to sound monotonous.

Binh: I guess this is about the synonym you use for the main keywords. Yes, using more variety word with the same meaning is recommended by Google. This help your page get searched with more keyword.

4. Getting indexed by Google

Question: I think I have only had my AdSense account for maybe 3 weeks. Is it too young?

Answer: The 3 weeks age, can be too young, can be not. I myself can get my site indexed by Google in just 2 days.

Question: Do they know I'm here?

Answer: I check your site and found out you are using Google Pages. I did test Google Pages by myself, and I don't recommend you to use it. Google Pages is a product of Google, yet their use is very limited and without a doubt, becoming very weak in term of search engine indexing.

No, I checked site:usedcarsunder1000dollars.googlepages.com and found no pages indexed by Google, so it doesn't know you are here. However, the people may know about your site, like me, because you talk about it somewhere.

Question: Do I just need to wait a little longer to be crawled?

Answer: If you use Blogger then you won't have to wait. Your current site got no page indexed by Google for 3 weeks passed already. If you use Blogger and have your address look like "http://1000dollarcars.blogspost.com" then it should be indexed in one (1) day.

If you decide to stick with Google Pages, then you will need to promote your site. If you do not promote your site, then you can keep waiting forever and never see Google index it. As long as Google see a back link to your site from another site on the Web, it will start indexing your pages. You can promote your site using variety of methods:

• submitting your site to web directories;
• bookmark your pages on social bookmark sites;
• ask your friends to link to your site from their Website.

For the time being it's not going to help if I talk too much. Slowly I will posts more on my own blog and teach step by step from the basic. This require serious reading. For a start up, I help you with a link from the top of this post, and so you should expect to see your homepage appearing on Google search result within 2 days.

5. Managing ad unit

Question: I was also having issues with copying and pasting, but I am pretty sure I have that figured out. I think once the ads actually show up then I can strategically place them. It doesn't seem like we can actually edit each ad in the manage ad page. It won't let you change the size/shape or type. What's with that?

Answer: Yes, you are right about the Manage Ads page. Oddly, it doesn't let us modify the ad size. It does let us modify colors, corner style, and channels, though. Of course, it doesn't let you modify the arrangement of the ad on your page. Logically, you can only modify the arrangement and layout inside your web page's HTML code.

Once again, Google Pages is not a system that let you edit your HTML code easily, Blogger is. If you use Blogger you can easily add AdSense unit on your blog with so much ease. It provide you with Graphical User Interface for arrange the Ad Units and modify the settings, without going to Manage Ads page.

6. Putting AdSense on blog

Question: I know these are probably a lot of questions, but I have spent hours trying to find the answers, and couldn't. I also started a blog just to see if it would be any different to work with than the web site. I understand that even less. I tried to paste as code but I couldn't figure out where to put it. Does it have to go into a particular block in the layout?

Answer: Is it Blogger.com your blog host? For blogger.com blog you can follow the following steps:

1. Open the Layout page. The link to this page is on the dashboard. Or you can navigate to it through Template then Page Elements.
2. Click on Add a Page Element link in the area you want to place an ad unit.
3. Locate: "AdSense: Earn revenue by displaying relevant ads on your blog." and click on ADD TO BLOG
4. Choose your desired settings then click SAVE CHANGES.

If it's free WordPress.com account then you can't put AdSense on it. However, If it's paid, you can insert the ad using Text widget, similar to what I put on my blog. Or you can insert into the template file (advanced level, require PHP knowledge), also see my blog as an example.

Question: I tried to put a banner under my header but above the title. The ad didn't show first of all, but when I previewed it, the blank space was below the title of the post. I couldn't get the post to move down so I could paste it above it.

Answer: Is it something related to blog? If yes, please send me the URL for your blog so I could check it up. If this is for Blogger.com blog, then you could follow the steps I mentioned about on how to add an AdSense unit.

1. This time, if it doesn't have Add a Page Element link where you want, you can just click on any Add a Page Element link on the page, then follow the steps as above.
2. After you save it, drag it from the temporary location and drop it into your desired location. In this case the desired location is before the "Blog posts" area. Obviously you can't put it into the header, so don't worry, it will be below the header and above the post title.

You can have a look at my example here: Binh's Reviews.

Remark

Blog is a better way compare to website to start your AdSense business, because it will have everything ready for you to build your pages the easy way. These are few comparisons:

I hope this article answer to all your questions and help you to move on. If not, please feel free to leave a comment on this page and I will attend to it as soon as I can. If you need more help please feel free to contact me again.

Update on 28/07/2008:

Russel has changed her website to Used Car Buying Guide. She also listened to my suggestion and created a blog Dummies Guide To Car Stuff

Here is another place you can buy cars under 1000: Used Cars Under $1000

• How do I delete AdSense Ad Unit from the Manage Ads page?
• How do I remove AdSense unit from my web page?

How do I delete AdSense Ad Unit from the Manage Ads page?

It's written in this Official Google help page How do I delete an AdSense unit? that you can NOT delete the ad units from your Manage Ads page, but hide it. You can hide ad unit by following 2 steps:

1. Remove the unwanted ad unit's code from all your web pages to stop it from gaining impressions.
2. Wait 7 days for the ad unit to disappear from your Ad Manager.

How do I remove AdSense unit from my web page?

Answer:

The process is easy if you remember where you place the code. Otherwise you will need to find it. Follow these steps:

1. Open the file for the web page you placed the code in.
2. Locate the AdSense JavaScript code that you pasted into the page earlier. It look like this:

   <script type="text/javascript"><!--
   google_ad_client = "pub-01234567890123456";
   //120x240, vertical homepage
   google_ad_slot = "0123456789";
   google_ad_width = 120;
   google_ad_height = 240;
   //--></script>

   <script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript">
   </script>

3. Remove the above code from your web page.

Update on 22 Dec 2007: Now you can actively Hide and Show AdSense Units.

Finally I finish the 8 hour overnight work on modifying my blog layout using the Christmas Days theme. Last night I when I logged in to the WordPress control panel I did I quick check on the latest news about WordPress. Out of which was the 20 Nov releases of WordPress theme and plugins.

The New Themes

I found nothing special about the new plugins but found very interesting new themes.

After spending 1 hour testing the demo and on my own blog, I left a comment on that page like this:

• Christmas Days theme is fitting it at absolutely the right time. Cheers everyone. Merry Christmas and see it run on my blog.
• Curved 3-Columns content too small for a 468×60 banner ad.
• FluidFlower is not bad either, unfortunately I’m not a girl
• Genesis is too dark for the eyes.
• Paperback is too simple for a blog.
• PortraitPress is worth a try.
• Skyscraper should not be called a theme.
• WPDesigner is neat and nice.

Agree with me, not? You are always welcomed to leave a comment on my blog

Improvements

So, I really did make the promise come true, I spent the last 8 hours editing this theme to suit my needs. You can notice the following difference than the original theme:

1. The content pane padding has been reduced, allowing the content to span 480px, which can fit a 468x60 banner ad.
2. There is a square 180x150 AdSense block on the sidebar, which look really attractive.
3. There is a 468x60 AdSense text-only banner ad at the bottom of each page, except homepage.
4. The post title has been re-leveled from h2 to h1 (SEO reason)
5. Unnecessary words are removed from the title of archive page (SEO reason).
6. The copyright notice has been fixed to dynamically display the actual blog name from the database, not "BlogName"
7. Many more small fixes but I can't list all here.

What's next?

I thought about making my edition available for downloading right here, but I feel too lame if no one bother taking it. So if you like it, drop a message here request for a download package and I will post it up a.s.a.p.