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I have been receiving Google AdSense payment via Western Union for months. It is very convenient and, most importantly, save cheque processing time and bank charges. However, my June 2008 payment is different. I received a Google AdSense cheque by DHL Express Mail!

Oh~ I miss the “green paper” from Google AdSense

The DHL delivery is not free. Google charged me USD$24 (RM76.80) for the express delivery. That’s not cheap! With the cheque, I still have to bank in, wait for cheque processing, and pay bank fee…

So, it isn’t good to receive AdSense payment by DHL.

Why DHL instead of Western Union?

There is a maximum payment limit (USD$2,800) for Western Union payment method. If your AdSense earning exceeded the limit, Google AdSense will automatically switch your payment method to “Secure Express Delivery”.

You will continuously receive AdSense payment in “Secure Express Delivery”, unless you change AdSense payment method to Western Union again.

After the Massive Delay of AdSense Stats (fixed in a day), Google AdSense announced the Known Issues Page.

AdSense Known Issues Page is a list of currently known AdSense issues and possible work-arounds. For example, the delayed updates of AdSense stats are listed:

Issue: Reports are taking longer than usual to generate, and aren’t showing complete data for earnings, clicks, and impressions.

Work-Around: None at the moment, but rest assured that this delay in reports won’t affect your earnings or payments.

Updates: This issue has been resolved. Reports should be up to date and correct, with all previously missing information now showing.

While the Known Issues Page is informative for AdSense publishers but there is no option to subscribe to the page updates to be informed immediately on new issues.

Anyway, there is a workaround. You can use ChangeDetection service to notify you on web page changes.

To all AdSense publishers, if you noticed that your AdSense earning today is much lower than usual, don’t panic! Your AdSense account should be fine, but Google has problem to update the AdSense stats up to time.

In fact, the AdSense update delay is affecting all the stats: impressions, clicks and earnings. Again, don’t panic!

On the other hand, AdWords stats also frozen and confirmed by Google AdWords.

Yes - some advertisers are seeing a delay in their stats today. The engineering teams are aware of this and, as you might imagine, are working to resolve it as a priority.

Please know that ads have continued to run as normal. This issue revolves around the reporting of statistics only, and does not impact ad delivery.

While there is no official announcement on AdSense blog, there is an official response on Google Groups:

Hi everyone,

I’ve escalated your reports to our engineers, and they’re currently investigating the issue. I’ll be sure to update this thread as soon as I have any more info — thanks for your patience in the meantime.

Stephanie

On the time I am writing this, the AdSense stats is starting to update but still a big lag behind.

Read: Massive delay updating AdSense stats today (hat tip: Hong Kiat)

You have a new website and you want it to be popular as soon as possible. So, your website need to be found by people. How? Your website needs to be indexed by search engines, especially Google.

Michael Jensen shared his experience to get a new website indexed by Google in 1 Day, without spending any cent on AdWords. Here are the steps:

1. Create 5 pages of content.
2. Use a simple template with site-wide links. Linked from a relevant site that you owned.
3. Tagged the new site on social bookmarking sites.
4. Commented in forum, put the URL in a specific niche web directory, and submit to Digg.
5. Install Google Analytics
6. Create and submit sitemap to Google Webmaster Central. Ping Google, and put the sitemap URL in “robots.txt”.

Michael checked his new site exactly 24 hours later and it has been indexed!

Tips: For WordPress users, you can use the Google XML Sitemap plugin for the jobs in Step #6

“SEO: Search Engine Optimization Bible”

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Google has released a free tool called Google Calendar Sync for users to sync between their Microsoft Outlook calendar and Google Calendar. No more missing meeting when you have no access to office PC.

The windows only tool that allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar. You can choose the sync direction and the frequency.

The main advantage of sync between calendar is that you can access your calendar events anytime anywhere on Google Calendar (as long as you have Internet access). The new events you added on Google Calendar when you are not in office will be added to office PC’s Microsoft Outlook Calendar after sync.

How to use Google Calendar Sync?

1. Download Google Calendar Sync (windows only)
2. Install the tool.
3. Configure the Google Calendar Sync’s settings

Google Calendar Sync will stay in your Windows System Tray, and automatically sync your calendar on sync time interval. You can also right-click on the calendar icon to sync manually or access Google Calendar Sync Settings window.

Have you tried Google Calendar Sync? What do you think?