We're glad to announce that Indonesian has just joined the family of AdSense supported languages. Let's celebrate by raising our hands in a kecak dance , watching a wayang kulit show or cooking traditional Indonesian recipes . If you have a website in Bahasa Indonesia, you'll now be able to earn money by showing Google AdSense ads. To get started, sign up for an AdSense account . We'll review your application and in the meantime,

We've heard from many of you that the AdSense optimization tips we regularly discuss are helpful but you're still not sure just how these tips apply to your sites. You understand that wide formats perform better, but which of your small formats should you swap out? And which format sizes should you replace them with? Over the last year,

This is the second post in our two-part AdSense Crawler Errors series. Recently we discussed ways to improve ad targeting and relevancy by making sure that the AdSense crawler can view all pages that have AdSense code on them. Sometimes though, it can become problematic when a publisher has a members only site that requires the user to log in to view the site's content. In cases like this,

We enjoyed reading all your comments from our blog post on family-safe content . Today we'd like to shed some light on how to expand your business and attract more visitors by creating sites with unique and valuable content. This topic is one of our most asked about policies from publishers, and is often misunderstood because of the varying perspectives on what is considered unique and relevant content.

Over the past month, we highlighted homebuyinginstitute.com and govisitcostarica.com as the first two AdSense publishers in the Gold Star Partnership Showcase . To recap, the showcase is an opportunity for us to publicly recognize some of our AdSense partners. We asked publishers to submit their sites for consideration if they clearly demonstrate the following: Exhibit original,

As we continue to improve and launch new features, we're always interested in hearing your ideas and feedback. Many of you have shared that you want to be able to change the title color of ads when a user moves their mouse over the title link. After a period of testing, we found that this feature resulted in higher earnings for publishers while also increasing user and advertiser value. We are pleased to announce today that we have updated all text ads with this change.

A couple weeks ago, 32 AdSense Help Forum Top Contributors )TCs( from around the world came to our Mountain View headquarters for a two-day summit, along with almost 300 other product TCs. If you participate in our Help Forum, you've probably noticed the very visible presence of our TCs, who lead product discussions and help answer questions. During the summit, we spent a bit of time discussing opportunities for further collaboration,

This year the Google AdSense team will be attending the Games Developer Conference Online )GDC Online( expo on October 10th, 11th and 12th in Austin, Texas. As part of the GDC Online, we'll be hosting Google Developer Day where we'll share ways in which publishers can use AdSense and AdMob to monetize their online games, websites and mobile applications. After our session, we're looking forward to chatting with publishers and developers at the conference,

During this summer, a few of us on the North America AdSense team had the pleasure of meeting publishers in person during AdSense in Your City events. First, we stopped by our office in Boulder, Colorado to provide publishers with AdSense updates and tips )and we fell in love with the city as well!(. We then headed to our offices in Toronto and New York to host a series of similar events for local publishers. It was a busy week,

We're continually evaluating our AdSense application process in order to ensure the safest possible network for our advertisers, as well as the best possible experience for you, our publishers. With that in mind, we've now implemented a change to our initial review process that will result in a stronger AdSense network. Improving the quality of the network will drive more interest and demand from advertisers, increasing the earning potential for all of our publishers.

)Cross posted to the Official Google Blog and the Inside AdWords Blog ( In June we launched the +1 button for websites , making it easier to recommend content across the web. In July, the +1 button crossed 2 billion daily views , and we also made it a lot faster . Today the +1 button appears on more than a million sites, with over 4 billion daily views, and we're extremely excited about this momentum. It's just the beginning, however,

We've recently made some changes to the language of our program policies. We highly encourage publishers who have signed the AdSense online Terms and Conditions to check the AdSense program policies often, and we'd like to take a moment to clarify our ad implementation policies and mention a few updates that have been made. Publishers are encouraged to experiment with a variety of placements and ad formats to enhance the user experience and thereby maximize their earnings.

With only one week left to submit your very own AdSense logo for our Doodle 4 AdSense showcase , we wanted to highlight the amazing submissions we've gotten so far. Take a look at our Facebook album featuring entries from creative publishers across the world. We'll be posting the submissions as they come in waves for the next few weeks, so keep checking back for more awesome doodles! Inspired to create your own? Get doodling and submit your logo before May 20th.

We've been listening to your feedback for more reporting and better insights into your data and are pleased to share a powerful new feature called multi-dimension reporting. You can now add dimensions to your performance reports to sort and view data across multiple dimensions including ad units, ad sizes, and countries. This new feature allows you to add up to three dimensions to your reports, including viewing a channel by date or an ad unit by targeting type.

How can I make the most out of my AdSense revenue potential? Which opportunities are coming from current trends on the online market? How can I improve the user experience on my website? We'll be addressing these questions and many more at our upcoming AdSense publisher event, taking place in the London area the first week of June. We'd love to see you there. Sign up through the form below until Friday,

Good news! We've expanded Western Union Quick Cash® as an AdSense payment method to 13 additional countries: Georgia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, Libya, Senegal, Mauritius, and Cameroon. For those of you who aren't familiar with this form of payment, Western Union Quick Cash payments are free and will reach you faster than checks.

Two weeks ago, we had the pleasure of welcoming 120 of our publishers from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and France at an AdSense publisher event in our Google office in Zurich.

We'll now be showing you earnings for today, yesterday, this month so far, and last month as well as any unpaid finalized earnings and most recent payment information. Important alerts will appear in a bar at the top to make sure you don't miss anything critical. We're still working toward more improvements based on comments we've heard, including the ability to view your top channels from the home page. Stay tuned for many more features that you've been asking for!

You've probably noticed that AdWords ads appearing on your site have a special "i" icon that expands to an "Ads by Google" label in the bottom corner of the ad. Users who click this label are taken to a page where they learn more about online advertising and the ads they've seen. Giving users clear notice about the ads they see is a high priority for Google and for many in the online advertising industry at large.

You may have already seen some of Google's various efforts to help Japan in the wake of last week's 8.9 earthquake . We've heard some inspirational stories from publishers who are donating their AdSense revenue to help and we've heard from many of you wondering how you can also donate AdSense earnings to help those affected by the earthquake. Currently, the fastest way to contribute is to donate directly via our crisis response page .