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Explore AdSense help resources and support options

As a business owner, content creator, or webmaster, you can have many questions, e.g., when you will be paid , how you can earn more or how you can build a multi-screen website . We've improved our resources and support options to help you find the answers to your questions. Most of the answers to your questions are available in the AdSense Help Center and in the Troubleshooting section . In addition, you can find answers and exchange ideas with other publishers in the AdSense Help Forum . To provide a more simplified and personalized support experience, we’ve launched a new Contact us flow in the AdSense Help Center. Publishers consistently earning more than $25 per week (or local equivalent) are eligible to sign up for email consultations with AdSense support (available in 36 languages ). If you can't see the “Contact Us” button, you can still reach us via the issue-based troubleshooters in the AdSense Help Center. For all questions about your AdSense account, don’t forge

Nursed to success: online education for nurses

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Nursingcrib.com provides extra study materials for student nurses, an idea that came to Michelle Bartolome in 2007 when she got frustrated with textbooks and in-person lessons. She and her husband, Deric, thought the Internet must have a better solution, and it did. The Bartolomes created Nursingcrib.com, implemented AdSense, and today the site receives visitors from across the globe. With the ad revenue from Nursingcrib, Deric and Michelle have been able to build their dream home, support their family, and work full time on their website. We asked them to share their tips for other entrepreneurs. How they got started: Michelle: The concept of Nursingcrib.com came from me. I happened to take up Nursing as a second course from 2004 to 2006. At that time, Nursing was an in-demand course. Almost 90% of college students were taking it up. First, I just wanted to have a blog where I could share my notes with other aspiring nurses like me. I uploaded several care plans, modules, and diagra

Is your website ready for mobile-friendly Google search results?

Recently, we announced that Google Search will be using mobile-friendliness as a search ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in Google Search results. Make sure your website is ready for this search change. Here are some frequently asked questions that can help you. How can I check if my site is mobile-friendly?   You can check your site by testing your pages with the Mobile-Friendly Test tool . This tool shows how Google Search sees your pages. To get a list of mobile usability issues across your sites, log in to your Webmaster Tools account and use the Mobile Usability Report . How can I make my site mobile-friendly? Get started with the guide to mobile-friendly sites to build your mobile-friendly site. If you need more customized advice for publishers, you can check out the AdSense Multi-Screen Starter Guide .   My website is already mobile-friendly. Do I need to take any action? If you already have

Demystifying AdSense policies with John Brown, Head of Publisher Policy Communications (Part 1)

Editor’s note: Today’s guest author is John Brown, the Head of Publisher Policy Communications. He’ll be sharing valuable insights about Google AdSense program policies with us. We know that many of you have a steady income from AdSense to support your business. We also know that you are working hard to keep your account in good standing and we want to help you stay compliant with our policies while you publish your content the way you want. We’ve defined AdSense program policies to ensure we all preserve a healthy digital ecosystem for the benefit of all users, advertisers, and publishers. We've gotten a lot of feedback from you that there's more we could be doing to make our policies clearer. To demystify any uncertainties or questions that you may have, I’d like to share more details on AdSense policies over the next few months. To start with, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is John Brown, I’m the Head of Publisher Policy Communications at Google. I’ve spent more th