Some time back changes to Google's AdSense refferal program had announced, pertaining to the pricing structure for North America, Latin America, or Japan and Google Plans To Retire Its AdSense Referral Program? outside North America, Latin America, and Japan.

The news came as a nasty surprise for the publishers affected by the changes and most were unhappy with it. One of the most vocal critics has been Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net who termed the changes as sheer stupidity! On similar lines Jeremy Schoemaker along with many others protested the changes.

A couple of days back IncrediMail got a shock of its life when Google had severed the advertising service relationship with it, see: Doomsday For IncrediMail After Being Dumped By Google from AdSense Program!. IncrediMail is an Internet content and media company which provides email solutions and solutions for desktop wallpapers and screensavers.

Now it's some good news for them and their stakeholders as the advertising service relationship has been reinstated, announced Incredimail.

If you've found yourself confused with most of Google AdSense's babble, gabble and twaddle, then AdSense Glossary launched by Google. It is comprehensive and covers everything from Earnings & Payments to technical terms and Account Settings.

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If you have an opinion about the definitions you can very well provide feedback to Google, informing them whether the definition was helpful or not.

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Almost a month back the issue of AdSense reports not sorting properly had cropped up.

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The AdSensePro Ashsley was quick to acknowledge the issue on Google Groups, "Thanks for reporting this issue. I have forwarded the information you provided to our engineering team for further investigation. They are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience."

Once IncrediMail disclosed that it's got a notice from Google Inc. about the latter's decision to end the advertising service relationship with the former, all hell broke lose. Incredimail's shares plummeted by 45 percentage points hitting this year's lowest figure of $2.50. IncrediMail, specializes in producing customized e-mail solutions.

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This is going to be a bad news for those who make a significant income through the AdSense sign-ups, but unfortunately stay outside North America, Latin America and Japan. It is so because, Google AdSense has now announced that it is going to phase out of the AdSense Referral units program from publishers staying outside the said regions. The reason behind this step has been attributed to the low turn-around of AdSense sign-ups from countries other than these areas. Thus soon the option to create a referral button for Adsense will no longer appear in the users accounts.

It was announced by Google China that to open AdSense links, now one have to click in a new browser window or browser tab.

The reason behind this change is the overwhelming request from publishers to improve user experience of Chinese web surfers. With the opening of a new window, users will not be required anymore to use the back button to continue browsing the publisher’s site. This will minimize the chance of a user accidentally leaving a site.

The Google AdSense Blog reports that “In an effort to provide you with more transparency and control over the ads appearing on your pages, we've developed the Ad Review Center. This new feature, which we'll be rolling out to publishers over the next few months, will allow you to review ads placement-targeted to your site and ensure those ads are relevant to your site's users.”

Keith Chan reports that Google seems to be trying out a scroll feature for Google AdSense advertisements in its Hong Kong version.

Further, "There are five 'sets' of ads that you can toggle around." You can also check out the video of the toggle ads in action, made by Keith.

Whether this new feature would be a hit or a miss only time will tell!

During this time of the year, Google thanks their selected AdSense and AdWords users by sending them Christmas gifts. Last year, they sent digital photo frames and iPod shuffles. For the current year, it is a 2GB USB memory card. The small but interesting gift comes inside a "pretty envelop", along with a greeting card.