Carsurvey.org is a car review website published by CSDO Media Limited. Initially inspired by some of the earliest experiments in user-generated reviews, the site now hosts almost 100,000 English-language car reviews submitted by visitors from across the globe. From 1997 to 2000, founder Steven Jackson ran the site as a hobby. However, the growing hosting costs became significant, so Steven opted to run ads to cover them.

As you may remember, we started enabling the Ad Review Center for publishers back in December to let you review ads placement-targeted to your site. We've recently enabled the Ad Review Center for more accounts and will continue rolling it out over the upcoming weeks. To get a publisher's perspective on the new feature, we chatted with Richard Tribe, Director of ski.com.au . Australian snow enthusiasts can visit ski.com.au to learn about resorts and travel deals,

When we talk about optimization in AdSense, we usually focus on testing different formats, colors, and locations for your ad units. But it's just as important, if not more so, to optimize your site's content to make it as user-friendly as possible. Which homepage design do your users respond most to? Which headline or graphic will entice your users to spend more time reading your articles? Knowing the answers can help you implement the most user-friendly elements,

As you may know, we regularly update our systems to maximize performance. But last week we experienced a few issues during the update, which caused a delay in processing new applications. We'd like to let you know that everything is back to normal, and we're working hard to get the backlog processed. If you've been waiting to hear back about your application, please be assured that we'll get back to you soon. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.

Are you seeing the following error message when trying to log in? "Welcome! You're signed in to Google Accounts under the email [your email address] and your Google Account password, but this is not a valid AdSense login." We've heard that there's been confusion among publishers about this login error message - especially if you're absolutely positive that you've used the correct email address when logging in. )And 99.9% of the time, this is the case.

Tomorrow, from 10am to 2pm, our engineers will be performing routine system maintenance. You know the drill: you won't be able to log in to your account during these 4 hours, but rest assured that we'll keep serving ads to your pages and tracking all clicks and impressions in your account. To help you plan around the maintenance,

In just three years, Manuel Treto's Buenamusica.com has become quite a successful enterprise. A U.S. based Spanish-language site dedicated to everything associated with music, Buenamusica.com now receives around 100,000 unique visitors per day from users around the world. When Manuel first started, he knew he needed an ad network that would deliver both English and Spanish ads relevant to his U.S.

Are you currently displaying a referral unit for AdSense on your website? Then read on, because there are some upcoming changes to the referral program that you should be aware of. But first let me clarify that only referral units promoting AdSense will be affected by this change; referrals to other products and services remain unaffected at this time. This change to referrals promoting AdSense will differ depending on your location, regardless of where your users are located.

We'd like to send our warmest holiday wishes to all of our publishers around the globe. While you may not be catching snowflakes where you are, we hope you find a winter wonderland )or summer wonderland for our readers in the Southern Hemisphere?( wherever you're located this holiday season. Our U.S. offices will be closed until Thursday, December 27th, so it may take us some time to respond to your emails. In the meantime,

As we mentioned last week , we're constantly working to improve the new ad management feature. There's another wave of minor tweaks to this feature, inspired by your feedback as always. Hide and seek We've heard from more than a few of you that you'd like to see a 'delete' function on the Manage Ads page. To avoid deleting any ad unit that's currently serving impressions on your pages,

The busy holiday season is upon us, so you may not have the time to sit in front of your computer waiting for your AdSense reports to finish running. That's why we're happy to announce that any advanced reports you generate will soon automatically be saved in your Report Manager once they're completed. This means that while you can still wait on the Advanced Reports page for your reports to complete if you choose, you no longer need to do so - instead,

To all our US publishers: before you spend the holidays gorging on sugar-coated culinary delicacies and spending quality time pelting your loved ones with snowballs, please take a moment to update your AdSense account tax information so we can issue your tax form for 2007. Verifying that your tax info is up to date now helps ensure that earnings won't be withheld from you later.

In an effort to provide you with more transparency and control over the ads appearing on your pages, we've developed the Ad Review Center. This new feature, which we'll be rolling out to publishers over the next few months, will allow you to review ads placement-targeted to your site and ensure those ads are relevant to your site's users. When you first opt into the Ad Review Center, you'll be able to see all placement-targeted ads currently targeted to your site,

We have high standards for the services we offer, which means we constantly reevaluate existing features to ensure they are effective as the AdSense product continues to expand. Our recent findings indicate that the Onsite Advertiser Sign-up feature, which allowed advertisers to sign up for AdWords campaigns on your site, hasn't been performing as well as we had hoped.

We've been listening to your comments on our new ad management feature, and so we're excited to tell you about a few updates that stem directly from your requests: You can now view the ID number associated with a specific custom channel by visiting the 'Channels' link under the 'AdSense Setup' tab. Many of you told us that you needed these channel ID numbers for ad management programs you're using.

Our engineers have now resolved the phone verification issue we reported on Tuesday. If your account is still on a phone verification hold, please feel free to retry the verification process. For instructions on removing any holds on your account, visit your Payment History page and look for a 'Required Actions' box at the top of the page. As always, we appreciate your patience.

In September, we introduced AdSense for mobile content to provide a simple solution for increasing revenue from your mobile sites. We recently interviewed Jaehong Lee from Japanese mobile site Mikle to find out more about his experience with using AdSense for mobile content. Currently, Mikle's bulletin boards attract over a million unique visitors each month. With user-generated content ranging from entertainment to nutrition,

Recently, we launched the AdSense Story Contest and asked publishers like you to send in video of your experiences with AdSense. We were thrilled by the enthusiasm and creativity you put into these videos. Although we can only award one winner, we'll be sharing some of our favorite submissions with you over the next few weeks. And now, the moment you've been waiting for... Congratulations to Don Vandervort from Hometips.com for his winning video submission!

We'd like to notify you about two issues related to November checks and phone verification. November checks If you were issued a check at the end of November, you may have noticed the following message printed on the paystub: CREDIT NOTE -VAT OVERCHARGE BETW. 1 JAN 2004 & 22/11/07 IF YOU NEED DETAILS OF THIS VAT PLEASE EMAIL GOOGLE@BDOSX.IE WITH CUSTOMER REF However, the paystub should have read: THIS CHECK IS FOR YOUR EARNINGS AS PART OF THE GOOGLE ADSENSE PROGRAM.

If you use AdSense for search on your pages, we'd like to let you know about an upcoming change on December 10th that will affect your top queries reports . To prepare for a few upcoming reporting enhancements, top queries data older than a year old will no longer be available. In other words, you'll only be able to view top queries reports dating back one year from the day you're generating the report. If you have important top queries data which are older than a year old,