Tuesday, October 4, 2005

From the Inside AdSense International mail bag

Vladimir asks: Do you have any plans to offer other payment options to Russian publishers?

Inside AdSense says: We’re working hard to provide additional payment options to a wider set of publishers, but we don’t currently have a date for when new options may become available in Russia or any other location. At this time, publishers in Russia are only eligible to receive payments in US Dollar checks.

Publishers in some other locations may have additional payment options available to them: local currency checks or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) .

We appreciate the patience of all our publishers while we work to expand our payment options.

Mark asks: European publishers have been experiencing pretty big delays with PIN deliveries. I was wondering why you have to send it by post and not by email?

Inside AdSense says: We mail each publisher a Personal Identification Number (PIN) in order to help verify publisher addresses, protect the personal information of our publishers, and ensure that payments can be received. We anticipate publishers will receive PINs 2-4 weeks after they are mailed, but it may take longer depending on your location.

We’ll always mail your PIN to the payment address in your account, so make sure that information is correct. If it’s not correct, you can always update your information and request a replacement PIN. Although your payments will be held while you’re waiting for your PIN, please rest assured that you’ll still be able to access your account and continue to accrue earnings.

If you don’t receive your PIN, or if it has been lost, you're welcome to request up to two additional PINs.

Deepak asks: My website is built for India and targets the Indian population, but I’m based in Canada. Is there any way that I can ensure the ads are targeted to India?

Inside AdSense says: AdSense uses geo-targeting to ensure that your Google ads are always targeted to your audience wherever they are located. AdWords advertisers choose which countries they’d like to target, and AdSense serves appropriately targeted ads based on the IP address of your users. This means that your users in India will see a different pool of ads than you will see in Canada.

To preview what ads your users in India or many other geographic locations are seeing, we recommend reading our previous post on the AdSense preview tool.


No comments:

Post a Comment