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It happened again. Google AdSense has a contra currency exchange between US dollar and Canadian dollar.

I got this email noon.

It said the payment will be issued in two parts. One should be already received by me. The other part will be issued soon.

Do you know how this happen?
Google has one of the most powerful computing, but they don't have a good currency exchange calculation.
Let me show you how they did it.

1) USD to Canadian dollar rate should be 1.030 : 1, means 1 USD equal to 1.030 CAD.
They use 0.981 : 1 by mistake.
So if I have US$200 earning, they just pay me CAD196.2 ( USD200X0.981 = CAD196.2)
They should pay me CAD 206.00 ( USD200X1.030 = CAD206)

The first payment is issued as CAD 196.2.

2) Google found this error later. The re-calculation is made to match the first payment and make a second payment to match the total earnings.
The calculation is here:
The first payment is not USD200.00, but USD190.49 ( CAD 196.2 / 1.030 = USD190.49)
The second payment is the rest of earning, USD 9.51 (USD 200 - USD 190.49 = USD9.51)
Google said the second paymen is in processing. It will be paid soon.

The Google AdSense has its own login account previously. During last year, it ask some people use their Google Account to replace the regular AdSense account login information.

But it is not successful, if your Google Account has already associated with an AdWords, AdSense, or Books account.

Now this limitation is broken. Google can provide this merge smoothly, even you has the Google Account with AdWords.

I have this situation. I tried to change AdSense login by Google Account, which is associated with an AdWords account. So it failed.

This morning, when I login the AdSense by my current AdSense account, it promot me to merge it with a Google Account. I still remembered the trial before. I think I can try it again.

After four or five steps, the convert is successful. I can use the same Google Account to access Google AdSense, Google AdWords, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Center, and most important Gmail, etc.

Masterseek is a kind of search engine which provides quick and free access to company profiles, contact information, and descriptions of products and services from more than 45 million companies in 75 countries.

You may find masterseek can get some useful search results. Some times not.

Just like me, I tried to enter "sport insurance" in Canada. No response. It gave me only No hits and followed by two Google AdSense ads.

But when I put this search term into all world, some search results come up.

So I can not tell you is it good or not. It very depends on the user's experience.
You know, some people like Google, some people like AOL, and some people like Yahoo. What about you, after you try this Masterseek?

I found some of my articles are copied and posted on the other sites without my permission. They even do not follow my CC license.

I use "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Canada" license in this Blog.

It means anybody can copy, distribute, display, and perform my work, if he follow my conditions as below:
Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by me
Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

Someone faile to follow the copyright law. They don't care it.
What do I do? If I find my article is stolen.

When Google first launched Google Pack referrals in May 2006, it is only available to USA publishers. Just noticed from Jensence's Blog, Google Pack is also available in Canada. Great news.

If you want to

I login the Google Adsense, and find more countries' publisher can use this referral. Including Traditional Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and English.

I still remember Google Pack was only six software inside.

There are so many click fraud activitis in the Google Adsense players. Google has never disclosured any information about how to identify them. Adn also call it invalid clicks instead of click fraud.

An independent expert,(a professor at NYU, Dr. Alexander Tuzhilin, produced a 47-page report.
He mentioned ten sources of invalid clicks. If you are a newbie of Google Adsense player, it is good for you to understand which are not permited to do.

1. individuals deploying automated clicking programs or software applications (called bots) specifically designed to click on ads 2. an individual employing low-cost workers or incentivizing others to click on the advertising links 3. publishers manually clicking on the ads on their pages 4. publishers manipulating web pages in such a way that user interactions with the web site result in inadvertent clicks 5. publishers subscribing to paid traffic websites that artificially bring extra traffic to the site, including extra clicking on the ads 6. advertisers manually clicking on the ads of their competitors 7. publishers being sabotaged by their competitors or other ill-wishers 8. various types of unintentional clicks, such as doubleclicks or customers getting confused and unintentionally clicking on the ad without a malicious intent. 9. technical problems, system implementation errors and coordination activities between Google.com and its affiliates resulting in double-counting errors 10. multiple accounts of AdSense publishers: some AdSense publishers illegally open “new” accounts under different names and using false identities; all the clicks originated from these illegal accounts are considered invalid.

Google Adsense team announced that they provide channels for referrals to publishers. This is a long waiting feature.
As it indicated, the publisher can track the perfomance of your referral units across different pages, sites, or topics. You can also use channels to determine whether one referral design works better for you than another.

Adsense for content, Adsense for search and referrals, they all have channel tracking features.

The publisher have more flexibility to use their AD spaces on their web pages. To better referral and get better earnings.

There is one inconsistency between the Google Adsense Terms and Conditions and the Program Policies.
I discussed with a smart person in the Adsensor Club and send a lot of emails to Google Support, Becky, back and forth.

In Google AdSenseTM Online Standard Terms and Conditions, Point 2 Implementation and Operation of Ads, Search Results, and Referrals. Section 1 Adsense for Search, the wording is as below:

AdSense for Search. If You have elected to receive Search Results, You will display on Your Site(s) a Google search box (a "Search Box") in accordance with the specifications provided by Google. Each Web page(s) that contains a Search Box must also contain other content related to Your Site. Except for related Google queries, all search queries (including queries entered into an Ad search box) must originate from individual human end users inputting data directly into a Search Box (or Ad search box, as applicable) on Your Site(s). You will send any and all queries (without editing, modifying, or filtering such queries individually or in the aggregate) to Google and Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide You with corresponding Search Results and/or Ads, as applicable and as available. Search Results and any accompanying Ads will be displayed on Web pages hosted by Google (each, a "Search Results Page"), the format, look and feel of which may be modified by Google from time to time.

The sentence I think important is underlined.

My understanding is Each Web page(s) that contains a Search Box must also contain other content related to Your Site. Becky gave me the defination of other content.

By 'other content,' we mean that there should be text related to your site also on the page. For example, if your site is about television, the page with the search box should have text about televisions.

She also pointed that, "Please be assured that if a page contains other content related to your site, you may place the Google AdSense for Search bar on that page. Because the page contains content related to your site, it would not be considered a non-content-based page."

Based on the Google Adsense official blog, Google has added more products to the range of referral products for adsense publishers.

According to the official adsense blog they have released Picasa and Google Pack. You'll earn up to $2 for each time a user installs Pack and up to $1 for each Picasa install.

For some odd reason I can only see picasa… Please check below screenshot:

I think Google will fix it this weekend.

Google Adsense has a service for the big client.

The official description shown below:

Maximize revenue on parked pages
AdSense for domains allows domain name registrars and large domain name holders to unlock the value in their parked page inventory. AdSense for domains delivers targeted, conceptually related keywords and advertisements to parked domain name pages by using Google's semantic technology to "understand" the meaning of each domain name. Powering over 3 million domain names, AdSense for domains is the industry's leading parked page service.

AdSense for domains is fully scalable and is designed for easy integration – so your network of sites can start earning revenue through AdSense for domains quickly and easily.

Who can apply for this service?
If your sites generate more than 750,000 page views per month, it is right for you.

The latest payment, in April, was made on time, but the exchange rate is incorrect.
Their support is good. The response is so quick that I received reply in the same day in which I asked the question.

The exchange rate should be about 1 USD to 1.12 Canadian dollar. Google paid the commission by the reversed rate, just 0.88.
Exchange rate reference
The Google AdSense Team's reply is shown below:

Hello,

We wish to inform you that the exchange rate used for your
April payment was incorrect. We're working hard to
investigate this error and will update you once we have
additional details on how we intend to resolve the issue.

If you normally receive communication for us in a
language other than English, we will provide additional
information in your preferred language next week.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your
patience.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

I trust they will resolve this problem in the next week.

The Google Adsense is like a bonus for my sites, including Yin's Family, David Yin's Blog, G2Soft.Net, and Canadian Insurance Advisor.

I love the internet, which provide the space to communicate with friends and family members, to share the thought, experience, and contribute the free time to help others.

It is a community. I post something interesting, and other browser them and go out through the links. Some links are set by Google Adsense, whith is an advertisement system. As a publisher, google will pay part of the advertisement revenue to us for the links from my sites.

When the balance of the Google Adsense account reaching $100, the payment will be send.

I got the first payment on Jan. 26, 2006. It is good and I will focus on it.