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How do I get my PIN from Google Adsense?

Idiot Mittens — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:14:33 -0800

How do I get a Google Adsense PIN if I've ordered it twice and still not received it? In order to receive your Google money, you need to enter your PIN, and in order to get the PIN you request it through your account.

When it didn't arrive at the first address I entered, I tried another one and it still didn't arrive. Now that I've requested it twice it won't allow me to request it again. And now the money has been forfeited.

I replied to an email the company sent me warning I was about to forfeit the money I had earned, but they didn't respond. I've tried Google groups for this, and found many people with the same problem but no solutions.

The hardest part seems to be getting any kind of a response from the company. Is there any way to contact this department of Google directly to get an answer? Ideally I could get a person's email or number. Feel free to message me personally if you don't want to put an email in the thread.

Thanks!

Shhh!

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:03:53 -0800

How anonymous is my anonymous blog? What steps would someone have to take to figure out that I am the person publishing my anonymous blog? Right now I use blogger. Would I be less anonymous if I had my own domain name? I'm thinking of using adsense - in which case Blogger would know that I am associated with my blog. How concerned should I be that someone else can track that connection? (I'm not blogging about anything illegal, I just really want to stay anon). Also, if its not obvious, I am tech-stupid, so please speak slowly in a loud, clear voice when answering my question.

I'm looking for an image gallery script with easy adsense integration and option to embed and share photos.

bostonhill — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:54:13 -0800

I'm looking for an image gallery script with easy adsense integration and option to embed and share photos. Currently, I've been experimenting with Coppermine but it doesn't have the embed photo option I would like to have on a page I'm working on. Is there any image script out there that makes the adsense integration and embed possible?

I like the 'times to come' coppertime hack via; http://herselfswebtools.com/themes since it has the sponsors bar included but they have no option for embed and share photos.

Thanks!

How do I block a particularly offensive google ad?

emyd — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:11:19 -0800

Can I block a particular google ad I never want to see again? I'm a science grad, and receive about 5 emails a day with the word "evolution" in them. Consequently I see a google ad promoting a certain ID movie by a certain ex-Nixon speechwriter many, many times a day. I know I should be able to just get over it, but it really becomes more offensive to me every time I see it. Is there any way I can get google to stop serving me just that one ad??? I am never, ever going to click on it, so it's not like it would be a loss of revenue.

Adsense vs the World

survivorman — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:31:04 -0800

Are there any current estimates as to what percentage of all marketing/advertising dollars are being spent in contextual marketing? Google Adwords, Adsense and the Pay-Per-Click industry at large seems to have tremendous upside (in fact, I can't see how contextual advertising could ever be usurped unless the human race stops using words and relevancy... but I digress) and I'm wondering how it's competing dollar-wise against traditional media like television and radio.

Thank you.

Wanted: An Adsense plugin for Wordpress that works

cameron.case — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:51:29 -0800

Looking for a wordpress adsense plugin that actually works. What is the hivemind using? So far I've tried Adsense, Adsense Manager and Adsense Injection with poor or unpredictable results. It's driving me mad I say, MAD!

(Any other rev generating plugin recommendations would be welcome as well.)

Any (ad)Words to make (ad)Sense of Adwords and Adsense?

prophetsearcher — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:43:11 -0800

Is there any 3rd-party software that is any good for managing AdWords campaigns? Every review I've read online seems to be driven by referral links, and I've been finding a somewhat-seedy underworld of affiliate back-rubbing pervading the industry. I can't trust any of the links I find online (they generally reveal their affiliate ID when you examine the HTML), nor do I trust the recommendations of such 'gurus' as Perry Marshall, Joel Comm, etc., whose books I've been reading and who send me countless emails everyday to my junk account.

I'm looking for the sort of program that will do (m)any of the following: generate keywords, examine current bid prices, estimate positioning, reconfigure match-types, adsense arbitrage analyses, etc. I'm willing to pay a reasonable price - and if it works on my Mac, that's a great bonus. [Note: None of these links are affiliate links...]

The tool I'm most tempted by is Keyword Analyzer , but there are a ton of them: Adwords Dominator , Keyword Elite , Adword Analyzer , Adword Accelerator (which Perry Marshall seems to shill for), and, of course, Word Tracker - which I still don't get what all the fuss is about (and I've tried the free trials).

I use the Adword Editor, but I'm looking for a tool that will help me really crush this Adwords thing. I've been playing with them for several websites for about 2 months now, and either I just don't get it, or the system doesn't quite work. For example, they want me to bid $5.00 on a keyword that only has one posted ad, and which is fully optimized on my site and ad text.

Does anyone have any real, unbiased experience that can help me find the tools I need? I know Google provides a lot of them itself, but I'm hoping for some extra 'edge' and ease of use.

Is orble.com legit?

flabdablet — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:31:40 -0800

Is orble.com legit? An email from a friend of mine:

http://www.orble.com/earn-money/
Hi Stephen,
What is this about - as in, safe, a con, get people's details etc?
Thanks in anticipation,
Regards, Juliet

How To Claim Adsense Revenue on Taxes?

davidmsc — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:10:45 -0800

Full-time job = salary = W-2 form = income to report on federal taxes. So far, so good. But I also made a few dollars (~$1,000) in 2006 from ads on my websites (some Adsense, some others). No documentation for the income, other than deposit receipts into my bank account. How do I include this modest sum in my annual income? Do I simply add the $1K to my salary income? Even if - especially if - there's no official "W-2" form to validate it? Could it really be that simple, or is there something more to claiming this income?

How can I randomly display blocks of text in a .jsp file?

Kickstart70 — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:44:56 -0800

How do I output random blocks of text in a JSP include? I am not in any way a java/jsp programmer. I have an application that uses JSP includes to display advertising (Google AdSense) to visitors. Currently, the ads are fairly static in size and content...I'd like to mix it up a little, have different sizes displayed, and occasionally have no ads at all.

Is there a way to do this just inside the .jsp file? Ideally I'd like to be able to specify what percentage of displays each will get (roughly...doesn't need to be perfect), like one ad block showing up 10% of the time and another 90%. That's not a requirement for this though.

Thanks!

Can I ETF to the wrong name?

acoutu — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:38:24 -0800

Banking Filter: Can I do an ETF if the bank account number is right but the name is wrong? Last year, I asked about cashing a cheque with the wrong name on it. Flash forward 12 months and I want to know what happens with electronic funds transfer in the same situation.

Google Adsense pays by cash and by ETF. The cheques have both my business name and personal name on them, so I have the choice of depositing to either a business or personal account. However, when you try to set up Adsense for an ETF, it only lists the business name as the account holder. Does this matter? Can I set up the ETF to go to my personal account, which is under my own name?

Thanks.

Centralized Advertising for the Lazy Blogger

mutantdisco! — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:42:06 -0800

I run AdSense on my blog, and burn my feed with FeedBurner. I would love to advertise within my feed with AdSense for Feeds (AFF) rather than the Feedburner Ad Network but AFF seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Does it still run, and how can I get into the program?

New blog - popular post - no money!

kdern — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:44:13 -0800

It's my first blog, and today one post is getting a lot of attention on digg. 15,000 hits by 9 AM, more to come. But I'm not making any money. Help! I have a new blog (1 week old) with 2 Adsense panels on the left side. I have had 15,000 visitors this morning (it's 8:30 AM here), but only 18 ad clicks. I've made just a couple dollars so far. I must be doing something wrong.... or is this normal?

I have another blog post with affiliate links to itunes albums, but that entry is not the one getting the hits.

I expect to double or triple my hits today, maybe hit 50,000 this week. Any tips? Are there any other sources of ads or revenue I can put up immediately?

(Notes: The blog is on Blogger Beta. I've put the blog up with the sole purpose of hopefully creating additional income. I tried putting adsense ads in the middle of the blog post, but Blogger won't allow the javacript tag).

Why doesn't Gmail understand what kind of spam to advertise?

skylar — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:27:25 -0800

How advanced are Google Ads, really? I thought we were all frightened of Google mining our GMail accounts to serve targeted ads. But when I check the spam folder of my GMail account, all I get is adverts for recipes ("Ginger Spam Salad - serves 1, refrigerate overnight") using the food product Spam! Spam Quiche - makes 4 servings; Creamy Spam Broccoli Casserole - makes 8 servings; French Fry Spam Casserole - Bake 30-40 minutes; Spam Skillet Casserole - Broil until golden; Spam Breakfast Burritos - bake 5-10 minutes, serve with salsa.... the list goes on.

Is this serious? Or is it an ingenious, if comical, guerilla marketing technique?

Isn't spam a valuable ad word? Is it just me, or has this company bought up all references to spam within Gmail spam folder (at least in the UK, where I'm based)...? And surely if Google is so clever it can figure out that spam as used in recipes has nothing to do with the kind of spam that ends up in their junk mail folders.

Please, fellow Metafilter users, explain my folly and show me what I'm misunderstanding here.

Need to find an AdSense-style technology platform

cameronx — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:55:04 -0800

Where can i find a small UK software company that has built almost an exact copy of Google's AdSense software? I don't need an AdSense alternative as i'm not buying ads or selling them - just the actual trading software itself. We're looking at getting hold of an engine to modify for a TV-based application and don't want to build from scratch.

P.S. My first question after lurking for months!

Making Sense of AdSense

king walnut — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:14:38 -0800

Approximately how much does Google's AdSense pay? We are trying to determine whether AdSense provides us with a reasonable business model. Does anyone have any data on how much Google pays per page view and click? I realize the formula might be complicated and/or unknown--we're just looking for approximate numbers to see if an idea is viable, thanks.

What online ads work best for nonprofits?

mygothlaundry — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:13:24 -0800

Are Google ads a good use for my very limited advertising dollars? If not, what works? I'm trying to promote a small science museum and I need help primarily with online marketing. I work for a very small earth science museum with a very, very small (think in the low four figures - a year) advertising/marketing/PR etc. budget. I think I want to try out some online ads since our visitor book is showing that the majority of our guests are finding us online. I've been looking at AdSense & AdWords and it's confusing as hell and I'm not sure it's really what we want. Has anyone, particularly anyone who works for a nonprofit, done Google ads and had much luck? What else is out there? I've looked at banner ads on local media sites and they seem almost as expensive as print ads and I'm not sure that's worth it either.

I also got a call the other day from Discover, who are offering one of those "we will put your website at the top of all search engines for $50 a month!" deals and I'm ambivalent about that as well, since I think our pagerank is OK. Of course, I could be wrong about that; please tell me if I am! Any tips for cheap, cheap, cheap advertising and online marketing are much appreciated. Our primary market is local families with kids, followed closely by tourists.

Why Goooooogle?

dripdripdrop — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:09:46 -0800

Why does Adsense/Adwords use "Ads by Goooooogle" instead of "Ads by Google" in their text ads? I've been wondering this for a little while. I think most of us are used to it, but could it turn off newbies (and people like my parents) who might think it's not the official Google? Why diminish the Google brand?

Looking for desiccated corpses? Find it on Ebay!

Help Me Impeach Bush — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:09:46 -0800

How do Ebay and others do Google ads that put your search term in the ad? Here's an example I just tried:

Entrails
Whatever you're looking for
you can get it on eBay.

How do they do that? Or do they really take out ads for all conceivable search terms, including "entrails"?

Hope it hasn't been asked before, couldn't find it on Google.

Broadening AdSense

chef_boyardee — Sun, 21 May 2006 13:02:43 -0800

AdSense: Is it possible to force Google to broaden (or randomize) some of the ads on my Adsense for Content banner? I run a forum and I think I'm losing potential revenue because Google tends to serve up a lot of the same ads all the time. Can I put keywords into a meta tag to bring up new ads?

Do blocked ads still generate revenue for the site owner?

toomanyplugs — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:37:36 -0800

I am using the UserContent.css file found here to block most ad images from showing in Firefox 1.5. Some sites I visit (and want to support) get their only revenue from ads. Does this method of blocking ads cut into their revenue? I figure the money from programs like Google's AdSense is calculated based on impressions (like pageviews?), but since the UserContent.css file is local, does it somehow screw with the count being reported back to the ad server? Does the browser still call the ads up upon loading, and just not show them?

Oh man.. c'mon!

ac — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:42:03 -0800

Does anyone know of a way to be let back into AdSense after being banned? Thanks. Everything was humming along fine for almost a year, had $70 in the account, and all of a sudden.."It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected advertisers." Can I at least get my money out, I earned it fairly!

How can I qualify for unemployment compensation if I'm using AdSense?

May Kasahara — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:50:57 -0800

I want to apply for unemployment benefits, but my website uses AdSense! What should I do? I recently got laid off from my job. As I work as an animator, this is par for the course, and it may be awhile before I get another long-term gig, or even a freelance one. However, since earlier this year, I've been using Google AdSense on a video game fansite I run in my spare time. The site gets a fair amount of traffic, and whatever ad revenue is generated covers hosting and other site-related expenses (any excess revenue is designated for possible future emergencies, contest prizes, and/or charity).

When applying for unemployment benefits this morning, I ran into this question: ...do you have a business or are you engaged in any activity which brings in or may bring in income? In the "help" section, "engaged in any activity" is described as: You are ineligible for unemployment insurance on any day in which you perform any services in employment or self-employment regardless of whether you are paid for these services.

Given that I have the AdSense account, this is of some concern. I would be willing to turn off the ads temporarily (there's enough AdSense revenue accrued to cover a few months of hosting, so no worries there), if it would mean I could legally get unemployment benefits. However, I do not wish to close the AdSense account altogether. Does anyone have any advice on what I should do? If it helps, I live in New Jersey and am applying for benefits with New York State (having worked in NYC).

What to do when Google suspends you?

jefgodesky — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:52:40 -0800

Google thinks I'm cheating them, what should I do? I like the AdSense program. Makes some modest revenue, and is relatively nice and unobtrusive. I've been using it on my site for several months now with little activity, until recently I've had quite the traffic surge. Nearly half of all the revenue I've accrued has been in the last week. Until Google disabled my account. I don't know of anything illicit going on beyond having a really good week. I emailed Google about it, but I doubt I'll ever hear back from them. What should I do? Should I try opening another AdSense account, or is there some analog that might be better to experiment with?

How to convince Google that Adsense is not being gamed?

EatenByAGrue — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 10:54:03 -0800

My friend has a very popular website and added Google's textads to it to make some money from the site. But after earning a decent amount of money, Google terminated the ads and accused my friend of falsely inflating the number of hits. My friend was not doing this. My question is whether there are any ways to prove to Google that all the textad hits are legitimate or to otherwise convince Google to allow my friend to have textads on the website again.