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New resources and help-options for Google AdSense publishers

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This Quick-tip is about some new help resources and options that Google has recently introduced for AdSense publishers - including ones who use AdSense through Blogger. If you put AdSense ads into your blog or website , you are known as a "publisher", because you "publish" materials where advertisements, placed by people known as advertisers, can be placed. Recently Google announced  a simplified, personalized contact options page for AdSense publishers , backed by an an email-based "help" service. This is a single source for many commonly used AdSense troubleshooting tools and articles, which often help you to resolve problems very quickly. Some troubleshooters lead to " issue-specific contact forms that generate emails to our team ". These are backed by automated tools, that help to fix problems very quickly. Google say that " The new contact options page, troubleshooters, and specialized contact forms are available to all publishers with...

What "Another blog or Google Site is already using this address" really means

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This article explains what "Another blog or Google Site is already using this address" means when you see it while setting up a custom domain for your blog - and what you can do to fix it. What is a custom domain A custom domain is a "real" website address, instead of the free one that you get when you first set up a blog using Blogger.   It's one of he essential steps if you want to use Blogger to make a "real" website .   For example: You initially set up    www.yourBusiness.blogspot.com Then you hear that people will treat you with more respect if you have www.yourBusiness.com  or www.yourBusiness.co.uk.  In this case, www.yourBusiness.com  and   www.yourBusiness.co.uk   are both "custom domains", ie web-addressed without "blogspot.com" or "wordpress.com" at the end of the address. To use www.yourBusiness.com, you need to either use Blogger's custom domain wizard - available under Settings > Basic > Publsh...