One of the requests we frequently hear from our international publishers is to view reports in currencies other than U.S. Dollars. That’s why we’re happy to announce that publishers located in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain can now view AdSense reports in Euros. If you’re located in one of these five countries and make this update, we’ll convert your earnings to Euros on a daily basis using the prevailing market rate from the previous day. With earnings converted daily, you’ll avoid the risk of currency exchange fluctuations between USD and the Euro. You can still choose to receive payments in either Euros or U.S. Dollars and select from a range of payment methods as well. To make the switch to local currency reports, you’ll need to agree to a new set of Terms and Conditions. Here are the main changes involved:The party that publishers are contracting with changes from Google Inc. to Google Ireland Limited.Publishers are responsible for paying any local taxes in their jurisdiction. Google will only issue VAT refunds to publishers with an address in Ireland.The governing law changes from California law to either English or local law.You can view the full text of these new Terms and Conditions by logging in to your account and looking for the green prompt, “See your daily earnings reported in Euro amounts!” on your Reports Overview page. Unfortunately, we’re not able to interpret the meaning of changes in our legal documents for publishers — if you have questions or need legal advice on interpreting the new Terms, please don’t hesitate to contact an attorney.
Before agreeing to the new Terms, we also recommend that you download and save copies of your past reports in U.S. Dollars for your records. Once you update your account, you’ll be able to view current and historical reports only in Euros. However, you’ll still be able to view your prior payment history of U.S. Dollar earnings. We encourage you to update your account to local currency reports soon, as we may require this change in the future. If we’re able to offer this to publishers in other countries, we’ll provide details here on Inside AdSense. For more information, please feel free to visit our Help Center.Posted by Elodie Bodet - AdSense Payments Team
Why Does AdSense Love Spam & Scraper Sites
Interesting question I got asked last week:
Hey $hoe, I have a question. Why do you think Google continues to allow high ranking spam sites to run Google AdSense? I thought they took a hard stance on this?
If you think about it what would be the most ideal webpage for Google AdSense. The way AdSense works as the publisher, you ONLY make money if someone leaves the website. So a site where you would want to actually retain the user with great content so they want to come back or book mark the site for later use would not be very ideal for Google AdSense.
This is also why you see a lot of SEO’s use Google AdSense as their main form of monetization. They rank for all kinds of terms but yet they don’t really have good content for them. Instead they put up a huge fat Google AdSense square because its more relevant content they have to the search.
Lets be honest it all boils down to money. While the user experience may be shit its super profitable for Google. Last figure I saw said that 90% of Googles income comes from AdSense and of that I would guess a HUGE percentage of that is sites that are purely made for AdSense.
Jason Calacanis said years ago while on a panel with Google AdSense Employees (SES San Jose 06) “I make Google AdSense too much money for them to ban me” in response to a person in the audience asking if he was worried about being banned since he was violating many of Googles Terms Of Service.
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Why Does AdSense Love Spam & Scraper Sites