Brian Vaughan

New Way to Manage Adsense

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A few days ago Google released a teaser of a feature that would enable you to not have to change your Adsense code everytime you made a change to the appearance of the code. This feature is not started to roll out to every publisher, and today it was enabled for my account.

I have just finished setting it up for one ad unit of mine, the 300×250 ad spot here on this blog. There seems to be a little delay before changes show up (and before the ad will initially start showing up for new ad units). All in all I have to say so far so good.

To find out whether or not it has been enabled on your blog yet. Log into Adsense then click on the Adsense Setup tab. If you see a link called “Manage Ads” it means your account has this new feature enabled.

While setting up new ads, they have added one step at the end, where you name and submit your new ad unit. It will be best to use very descriptive wordage for new ads so you know exactly where they are. That way when you need to change the appearance of ads you will be able to find which one to edit more easily.

Once you have ads setup and ready you can use the Manage Ads link to well manage your ads. This screen will list all the ads you have created with links to edit the ad, preview what it will look like, as well to get the code for the ad.

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Finally Back with a Smoking New Machine

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It has been just over a month since the world has heard from me here at BrianVaughan.com. You may be wondering what exactly happened to me, might of thought I just fell off the face of the world, well it sure did seem like I did.

As I have stated in previous posts of mine, my computer was on the verge of really crapping out on me, and it finally did. For a while I was using an old back up machine running on a 600mhz processor or something crazy like that. It just didn’t cut it for me and was just making me madder and madder everything that I had to use it. But all of that is over now. I am running on a brand new custom built beast of a machine.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+
Cooler Master Centurion 5 Case
Cooler Master Extreme 500 Watt Power Supply
Asus Nvidia 590i SLI Mother Board
Nvidia 8600 graphics card
A-Data 2 Gigs of Ram (2x 1024 sticks)

I was able to canabolize my other machine and use the hard drive and dvd-writer from it. After Christmas I hope to upgrade at least the hard drive to a nice new SATA drive so I can get the most performance out of my new machine.

So now that I am back up and running what can you expect from me in the coming days and weeks? Well I want to get this blog rolling again, it had built up a bit of steam and was doing really well (at least in my opinion) had a small (but dedicated) group of readers. I want to get them back and bring in more of those types of readers. I might refocus the target audience of the blog, or at least expand into other things that I think my readers will enjoy reading about. Before my machine went down I had the 2nd part in my Adsense for Beginners series done, I need to get that rewritten and posted up for all to see.

I want to also get a custom theme done up the site, to make it stand out from all the rest of the blogs out there. While I was on the hiatus I did also find out this theme is slightly broken in at least IE7, so that is something I will want to address soon, it was still readable, but I feel like it should look better for those users. I’m hoping this blog will get rolling again really soon. So stay tuned in, I have a lot of catching up to do in the blogosphere once I finish reading the hundreds of posts I need to catch up on, expect a lot of posts to be rolling your way over the next week and month.

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