We’re simplifying earnings reporting for YouTube partners

One of the most exciting things about YouTube is all the partners building businesses around doing what they love. We now have thousands of partners who are making video creation a full-time endeavor. And, we’re listening to feedback and working to improve the process of earning money on YouTube.
So, in an effort to ensure we deliver our partners the most accurate and consistent financial performance data for their videos, we are making some changes in how YouTube interacts with AdSense. Starting April 1, 2013, AdSense will no longer calculate and report AdSense for Content Host earnings for YouTube partners. Instead, AdSense earnings from YouTube videos will only be calculated by YouTube and displayed in YouTube Analytics.
What does this mean for you as a YouTube partner?
First, expect no change in how you are paid. The payments tab in AdSense will show your monthly YouTube payments as one total amount as you will continue to be paid via AdSense. Rather, this change means that if you want to view your YouTube financial performance, you should go to YouTube Analytics where you can continue to find a comprehensive view of all your sources of earnings for your YouTube videos. YouTube Analytics has improved the timeliness of earnings reporting to within 24 hours after the end of the day, Pacific Time. You can still view page views and clicks and also manage ad blocking in the AdSense interface for your YouTube videos. If you use other AdSense products, their calculation and reports will be unchanged in the AdSense reporting interface.
Have you ever wondered what the difference between AdSense earnings and YouTube earnings was? As a bit of background, many YouTube partners have ad earnings from two sources: auction-sold ads (AdSense earnings) and reserve-sold ads (YouTube earnings). YouTube serves the optimal ads when a viewer watches the video. Previously, AdSense calculated and reported the auction-sold AdSense earnings. YouTube calculated reserve-sold and miscellaneous earnings and reported both AdSense and YouTube earnings. Now, having only the YouTube system calculate all your earnings will simplify and streamline your video reporting.
We take accurate financial calculation and reporting very seriously, and believe this change will reduce reporting confusion and prepare all our partners for new ways to grow their earnings.

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Understand and advance your site’s achievement with the fresh publisher scorecard

We regularly hear that you look to us for benchmarking information on how your site is performing relative to the sites of other AdSense publishers. If you tuned in to yesterday’s Hangout on Air, you heard Susan Wojcicki talk about a future where AdSense does more of the heavy lifting for your ads, so you can focus on creating great content. Today, we’re happy to introduce the publisher scorecard, a new benchmarking feature in your AdSense account.
The scorecard can be found on the Home tab of your account and provides you with a summary of how well your ad settings, webpages and content are performing relative to other AdSense publishers. It’s organized into different categories, such as revenue optimization and site health, with each category scored on a scale of one to five blue dots indicating your performance.

You can further understand your performance and the steps you can take to improve it by following the suggestions and improvement tips in each category. Items that you should fix will be flagged by a red or yellow exclamation mark and once fixed, may help to increase your traffic and/or revenue. You’ll also be able to see updates to your score as you make improvements. In case you’re wondering if Google will take any action on low scores, the answer is no - this in an informational tool only to give you greater insights into how your site is performing.

We hope you find the scorecard a valuable tool in maximizing user experience on your site and further growing your online business. Read more about the scorecard in our Help Center and share your feedback on the AdSense +page.

Posted by Nick Radicevic - AdSense Product Manager
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Stay on top of AdSense affairs behavior with fresh notifications in your account

 Our AdSense affairs behavior are authentic to ensure we all bottle a advantageous ecosystem for users, advertisers and added publishers, and acquiescence with these behavior is an complete charge for every publisher. We’ve heard your requests for added attainable advice on action issues and we’re blessed to acquaint you that we are ablution an added action notifications affection anon in your AdSense account. This will advice you to bound accept and abode any abeyant action issues.

Going forward, if our arrangement detects a activity violation, you’ll accept both an email and an annual notification with a articulation to appearance added details. Under the Activity violations area on the home tab, you can bound admission important advice including capacity on anniversary violation, the affair ID and an archetype of the abuse on your site. The folio will additionally accommodate capacity on the activity you charge to booty to boldness the violation.

 

We’ll be gradually rolling out this new feature over the coming weeks to all publisher accounts.  We hope that it helps you quickly identify and resolve any potential issues so you can focus on growing your business with AdSense. Please remember that as before, you'll need to ensure all of your sites comply with our policies. In addition to checking your account for any notifications, be sure to regularly review your sites for compliance with our policies.

Thanks for your continued feedback and suggestions on how we can continue improving AdSense for you. Please continue to share them on our AdSense +page and if you’d like more details on this new feature, visit our Help Center.

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How to create a Google Adsense Account?

I think you must be excited after knowing Adsense can be a real earn-money program that accepts every publisher. So, are you ready to earn money from Adsense? Please read the steps below, to apply for adsense and make an Adsense account for yourself.

Before you apply for an Adsense Account, please make sure that you have a suitable website that has never been applied for Adsense before. In term of suitability, your site should be free from porn information and adult pictures. Apart from that, you site should not be made solely for displaying adsense ads. In other words, your site should not be content-free.

Then, go to Google Adsense website to get access to the signup page directly, and start applying in Adsense. Provide your personal information including your name, country of origin, mailing address, and your site URL etc. For those who wanna receive check, you can change your mailing address anytime, no worry. On the other, you may even choose EFT to be the choice of payment, if your country is supported for using EFT.

Afterwards, Google need to review your site and decide your site whether is suitable for putting adsense or not. Normally, it only takes you 2 - 3 business days. However, for certain occasion, it will take as long as 7 business days. Just be patient, and wait for that period of time. However, some people still say they do not receive any reply from Google after a week. Never mind, send them an email and ask them about the progress of review. They are welcome to answer your enquiry.

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Make Money from Your Content

Not using AdSense yet?

In the last ten years, AdSense has helped over 2 million partners grow their businesses. Be sure to tune in on Wednesday September 11, at 11:00AM, when we’ll be hosting a special 10th Anniversary Hangout on Air for prospective publishers. If you haven’t yet signed up for Google AdSense or would like to learn more, you should join us. We’ll demonstrate how AdSense helps you earn money from your website, allowing you focus on creating great content. Learn how AdSense:

• Earns you extra revenue 
• Shows your users relevant and useful ads
• Lets you control which ads show up on your site
• Helps you understand what’s working and what’s not with robust reporting tools

Several publishers will also be joining us to share their AdSense experiences. Hear why they chose AdSense and how it’s helped them grow.

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