Just read on Threadwatch about Google’s innovation on Blogger: they now let you add your AdSense code and even register for a new AdSense account right from your Blogger account. I got curious and went to check for myself and this is what I found.
They added a tab for AdSense in the Template section. When you switch to it you have an option to either register a new Adsense account (I wonder if then you get approved for it automatically?) or log into an existing account. Unfortunately, I was not able to verify what happens next as as soon as I clicked on the “Sign In” button I was redirected to a page saying:
Error
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your request at this time. Our engineers have been notified of this problem and will work to resolve it.
Looks like either Google was a bit too early to announce the new feature or everyone was so eager to test it out right away that it crashed… Very sad….
If Blogger wasn’t owned by Google who already knows all the logins and passwords for Adsense I’d say it could be a phishing page for retrieving people’s Adsense login information.
One more important side note: the TOS has been changed again, and one thing I noticed there that drew my attention was this:
In addition, Google reserves the right to terminate without notice any account that has not generated a sufficient number of valid clicks on or valid impressions of Ads (as measured by Google) for a period of two (2) months or more.
Makes one wonder – what would that “sufficient number of clicks” be? $100 worth? more? less?
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