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While Adsense is a GREAT way to get income on your websites a recent post about how Adsense crawls your site reminded me about some issues that some might face when optimizing a site that uses Adsense.

The biggest thing is that you have to make sure that your site doesn’t have any blocks to the Adsense crawlers. This can come in a few forms

• First is the robots.txt – This is a little text file that helps web site crawlers find out more about your website and how to crawl it. It’s critical that you don’t have anything blocked. You can find a bit more about the robots.txt file at this site.
• Authentication or Logins – Sometimes your site may be passworded. I usually check the site by closing my browser, clearing my temporary files or cache and even get rid of any cookies. This ensures that not only can visitors to my site won’t be left out in the cold but the Adsense crawler will get to my content and serve the correct ads.
• Finally sessions and cookies – these are a bit more subtle and if you’re not sure if they are a problem you’re probably not going to have a problem. Using the clear cache/delete cookie method should be enough to find out if there is an issue.

Finally with any website take a quick look and see if your site is available for others to view by visiting your site right after you’ve published it. Not only will this let you see your handiwork it will let you know if there is a problem.

With many websites using Adsense you’d think that everyone would be millionaires by now.  But that is not the case.  GoogMaster writes about why more people aren’t getting the results they expect from AdSense.

With the huge success Google’s Adsense has been reaping, there are now
only a handful of sites you’ll see that doesn’t feature Adsense on
their sites. Everyone is hoping that they could make huge earnings
from this pay-per-click affiliate program scheme Google has launched.

Read Five reasons , which makes your site unprofitable towards adsense

Google has made a recent announcement about their new requirement for using Google Accounts with your Adsense Account.  While this doesn’t seem like a big deal it is another way to keep Google in your business.  Granted having a google account is pretty good.  It can get a bit confusing if you have multiple Google Accounts (i.e. personal vs work)

As you may remember, we started asking publishers to update your AdSense accounts to Google Accounts last May. When you do that, you can manage all of your Google products using one login and password, and also take advantage of new features like Site Authentication and the recently improved AdSense for search.

Read Make the move…to Google Accounts