This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PST. You’ll be unable to log in to your AdSense account during this time, but we’ll continue serving ads to your pages and tracking your clicks, impressions, and earnings as usual. In addition, your ad targeting won’t be affected. We’ve converted...Read More

“What is eCPM? What affects my eCPM? What can I do to earn a higher eCPM?” Effective cost per thousand impressions (eCPM) is the amount of revenue you can expect to earn from AdSense for every 1000 impressions shown on your site. Since eCPM helps you measure how well your ads are performing, we often...Read More

Here on the payments team at AdSense, we strive to help you understand how and when you can be paid. Here’s a basic walk-through of 3 steps that will properly set up your account to receive its next payment: 1) Verify that your account isn’t on hold.If you see a message about a payments hold...Read More

Webmaster Level: All Just in time for the holidays, the Webmaster Tools team has updated the “Search queries” and “Links to your site” features. Search queries with top pages:Throughout the past year we’ve made some significant changes to the search queries feature in Webmaster Tools. We’ve received lots of feedback about this tremendously popular feature....Read More

Have you ever run a test on one of your ad units, and wished you could more easily compare performance from before and after the test? If you’ve created and saved an ad unit in your account, you’ll now find an easy way to do this in your ad units report. Start by visiting the...Read More