Google AdSense Adds More Countries To Western Union Quick Cash Payment System.

Making it easier and faster to get AdSense revenue to publishers hands, Google AdSense has added more countries the list of countries supported by Western Union Quick Cash Payment System. The countries added are;

Puerto Rico
Jamaica
Virgin Islands (British)
Ecuador
Costa Rica
Paraguay

But there are some limitations. Google will only send Western Union payments to publisher who has an Individual account at this time, and the payee name on your account must exactly match the government issued ID card that you'll use while picking up your payments.
To learn how to sign up to receive Western Union payments, and instructions on how to pick up your payments please visit our Help Center.
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Google sessions @ ad:tech NY

The Google Ads Factory Tour, 11/4-11/5/09

The Factory Tour will span 10 hours of live workshops designed to give you an overview of Google's latest measurement and optimization tools. Here's the full two-day agenda:

Wednesday, November 4 - Optimizing Search & Display

11:00am-12:00pm AdWords Optimization Tools: Smarter Search Management

12:00pm-1:00pm Conversion Optimizer: The Next Generation of AdWords Bidding

2:00-2:30pm Google Content Network: Matching Solutions to Advertisers

2:30-3:30pm Google Content Network: Creating Effective Campaigns

3:30-4:30pm Google Content Network: Optimizing for Results

4:30-5:00pm Automating Content Network Campaigns Through the AdWords API

Thursday, November 5 - Measurement, Ads Quality, Mobile & Local

11:00am-12:00pm Google Campaign Insights: What to Measure and When

12:00-1:00pm Google Campaign Insights: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Technology

2:00-3:00pm Google Analytics & Website Optimizer: Making the Most of Your Traffic

3:00-4:00pm Google Search Ads Quality: What It Is and How to Improve It

4:00-5:00pm Local and Mobile Ads: How to Use Location to Drive Results

You can stop by for a single session, or stay for the whole event. The Factory Tour is open to all exhibit hall and conference pass holders. For more information, check the ad:tech events page.

If you haven't yet signed up for ad:tech or CRS, registration is still open. You can enter the promotional code 20EXNY9 to receive 20% off an ad:tech full conference pass. If you're only attending CRS, enter the code CRSGoogle to receive $100 off the price of your CRS conference pass.
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Translating AdWords campaigns with Google Translator Toolkit

If you are advertising in multiple countries or in countries with multiple languages, you may have spent a good time, translating in between those languages for website as well as the adwords.
Now Google has come from behind to help you with faster and easier translation, translation search, bilingual dictionaries and terminology databases which are custom for you.
In order to use the features, and translate your keywords, ad text by uploading AdWords Editor Archive (AEA) into Google Translator Toolkit.
Once you are done with translating work, you can get the campaign back and upload into your AdWords Editor.
AdWords Editor
AdWords Traffic Estimator.

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IP Address Range for Google Affiliate Network Is Changing.

Please note that the Google Affiliate Network's IP address range is changing and if you have any automated reporting, Product feeds, or link subscriptions you might be affected.
Also if you are separating outside world with a firewall, add the new range to the allowed IP addresss'. Make sure to add the new IP network (216.73.92.0/23) range to firewall settings by 10/26 and leave the old IP network range (65.167.65.0/24) until November 8th, the old range can be removed from your firewall settings.
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Are You Planing On "Going Google"? Millions Of Businesses Around The World Have "Gone Google"!

Millions of companies, Universities and ordinary people "go Google" by switching to Google Apps, everyday. We too use Google Apps and other services from Google for our work and our hobbies.
There are more than 100 countries using Google Apps in 40 languages, which has lead to 2 million companies and 20 million individuals adopting the Apps for their workplace.
It is not only small companies that "Go Google", recently companies such as Konica Minolta, Rentokil Initial and TOTO that have just decided to go Google. (There are more, watch the video below) These companies no longer have to deal with the hassles of managing email servers or rolling out software updates, and their employees now enjoy the convenience of shared documents and calendars, Gmail and more.
I guess it is something that really can help you, small business do not have to go through these hassles either.
More importanly, the marketing types could learn from the marketing campaign the Google is running and every link above hints at how they run it. A simple blog post could be a seed of much larger marketing campaign.

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Google Removes Page Rank Info From Webmaster Tools!

Even though page rank has been running along side with  Google and Search, replying to a users question, a Google employee has responded that Google Has removed the page rank information from webmaster tools because it wants you to forget about it!

Susan Moskwa (Google Employee) We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it.  :-)

More details on why not to obsess over PageRank here:
   http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq--crawling--indexing---ranking#pagerank

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Google AdWords Team Will Be At ad:tech

One of our team always managed to get to a ad:tech when ever it is possible. But we are going to miss this ad:tech New York session, specially knowing that Google AdWords team will be presenting some really good sessions.

The Google Ads Factory Tour, 11/4/09-11/5/09

The Factory Tour consists of two days of live workshops at ad:tech NY designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of Google's latest measurement and optimization tools. You'll hear directly from the Google ads team and walk away with practical tips you can immediately use to improve your search and display performance.

On day one, we'll spend the morning highlighting recently released AdWords search optimization tools such as the Opportunities tab and Bid Simulator, and in the afternoon we'll take you through effective optimization techniques for text and display campaigns on the Google Content Network.

The second day we'll expand our scope to cover measurement tools such as Google Analytics and Website Optimizer, search ads quality, and advertising strategies for local and mobile campaigns.

The Factory Tour is open to all exhibit hall and conference passholders.

Content Revenue Strategies, 11/5/09

Formerly known as ADSPACE, CRS is the first and only expo dedicated to AdSense and contextual advertising. CRS will take place alongside ad:tech New York and offers sessions tailored to advertisers as well as small and medium sized publishers. Here you can attend sessions designed to help you maximize your performance on Google’s Content Network and emerging blog, video and social media networks.

Both CRS and the Google Ads Factory Tour will be held in the Javits Center along with the rest of ad:tech NY. You can register ahead of time and save on admission fees, unless of course you are super rich!.
Google also published promotional codes for you to consume.

Enter the promotional code 20EXNY9 to receive 20% off an ad:tech full conference pass. If you're only attending CRS, enter the code CRSGoogle to receive $100 off the price of your CRS conference pass.

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