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AdSense publishers who wish to help Japan can now donate their AdSense earnings accrued through March 31, 2011 directly to the Japanese Red Cross.

Simply complete the form on AdSense Help with your payee name, email address, AdSense publisher ID and the donation amount in USD.

Please note that donation will be processed via the Tides Foundation, and 1.5% of your donation amount will be used by their administration fees.

Donate now to help Japan

Yesterday I saw a new AdSense ads style on my own blog. The large rectangle text ads is showing center aligned text, instead of normal left aligned text.

This is the first time I saw the new AdSense ads style and I do not see it on other websites yet. Is it new? Have you see the center aligned AdSense ads on other sites before?

Do you think the center aligned ads text will increase the Click-Thru-Rate (CTR)?

Malaysian Pro-blogger, Liew Cheon Fong (a.k.a LiewCF, yours truly) got Google AdSense disabled ad serving on his tech blog. How did he get it re-enabled in 14 hours? Also, the AdSense alternatives he used and the lessons he learned.

Read on for the details.

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Malaysian AdSense publishers are frustrated with Google AdSense’s late Western Union payment for December 2010.

I received email from Google AdSense saying my payment has been issued, but, in the AdSense account, the Western Union payment is still “in progress” since Dec 22.

I understand that Google might had a long Christmas & New Year holiday and payments maybe got delayed.

Based on the previous payment history, payments were issued before or on 27th each month.

But, it is already Jan 3rd, 2011 now! Google, I want my money now!

Update: the late payment issued has been discussed on Google AdSense Help Forum. Apparently, Malaysians publishers are affected.

Update 2: A LowYat.net forum user “sherly” told that Western Union Malaysia closed until Jan 2nd, 2010.

Update 3 (Jan 4, 2011): Just saw a new text on AdSense payment page:

Your December 2010 earnings will be calculated on the first week of January. Please check back on January 7, 2011 for updated payment information.

Well, we have to wait few more days then…

Update 4 (Jan 5, 2011): Google employee “Bertha” responded on forum:

Hi all –

Thank you for writing in to the forum about your payments, and I apologize that we haven’t responded sooner. It appears that publishers in Belgium and Malaysia are experiencing this issue with the “Payment in Progress” message. Please be aware that we are investigating this right now and I’ll update this thread as soon as I have more information!

Best,

AdSensePro Bertha

And, we got the payments!

Google AdSense blog published 3 simple tips to optimize AdSense ad units for placement targeting so that advertisers spend on your site.

1. Implement your ad units above the fold and near your content.
2. Use top-performing ad sizes: medium rectangle (300×250), large rectangle (336×280), leaderboard (728×90), and wide skyscraper (160×600).
3. Enable your ad units to show text and image ads.

Here are the additional videos on high-performing ad units:

Don’t forget to check out the AdSense Checklist, too!