We've talked a lot recently on our blog about how mobile usage is rising at a rate faster than any other technology to date. To keep up, it's important for your business to develop a mobile strategy. If you're located in the London, UK area )or are willing to travel to London!( we'd like to let you know about the GetMo Exhibition we're hosting on Wednesday, 30 May. During this event, you'll have the opportunity to learn more about mobile trends.

An important first step to attracting customers on-the-go is to create a mobile-friendly website which can sometimes be complicated and confusing. We're happy to announce that GoMo and DudaMobile have joined forces to make it even easier for small businesses to create a mobile-friendly website. You can create a free mobile site directly from howtogomo.com using a tool powered by DudaMobile. This do-it-yourself site builder, customized specifically for GoMo users,

Editor's Note: Today we'd like to share some tips from AdSense publisher Dave Taylor, owner and author of askdavetaylor.com . Dave Taylor has been online for over thirty years and has been producing helpful tech content for just about all of that time. You can find him online at http://www.davetayloronline.com/ . It's a tricky balancing act being an AdSense publisher because once you start seeing your earnings increase,

We've blogged before about Google Affiliate Network , which helps you earn more from your site with ads that pay based on conversions. While all AdSense publishers around the world are eligible to join Google Affiliate Network, we're happy to let you know that this network has just expanded to more UK advertisers - meaning that if you're located in the UK or have UK-based readers,

As we explained in a previous post , there are many ways publishers can optimize their site for AdSense. One of the most overlooked is ensuring that our AdSense crawler can accurately crawl your site so that your ads are as relevant and useful as possible. Today we're making this task easier for you with our latest redesign of the crawler access page which you'll find on the Account Settings page of your AdSense account.

We hope that by now you've found the AdSense Help Forum to be the best place to ask questions, search for answers and share tips with other AdSense publishers. We've been listening to your feedback about forum features you'd like to see, and we're excited to announce that we've moved the AdSense Forum )together with all its content, users and user levels( to a brand new solution: Google Product Forums. The new Google Product Forums platform, which is built on Google Groups,

Last December, we posted about the massive shift to mobile we've seen in your users over the past two years. Still, 4 out of 5 online publishers don't have a mobile-optimized website, and they risk losing their fastest-growing audience. Today, we're launching a new suite of tools at howtogomo.com to help publishers build mobile-friendly websites. To help demonstrate the potential of creating a mobile-friendly site,

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.