August 5, 2007
Signing up for AdSense
Having made my first post I added an AdSense page element to the Blogger blog template. This prompted Google to ask me to sign up for AdSense, which of course I proceeded to do. I received an email from them informing me that "Your application has now been submitted for review and we will follow up with you by email in 1-2 days". A couple of hours later I received an email congratulating me on the fact that my AdSense application had been approved, but warning that "if Google has not yet crawled your site, you may not notice relevant ads for up to 48 hours". I headed over to Google webmaster tools and added the new blog URL (http://wwwgurus.blogspot.com) to my list of web sites. Sure enough the blog has not yet been crawled by Google. I figured Google's computers must be smart enough to realize that I own the blog, but apparently not. They asked me to add a meta tag to the blog header to prove it! I went back to the blog template to edit the HTML. Google thoughtfully asked me if I wanted to back up the existing template, and I gratefully accepted their generous offer. I added the Google verification meta tag just underneath the line that starts "<head>" near the beginning of the template and saved the new version. I then rushed back to Google webmaster tools and clicked the "Verify" button. Horror of horrors! Google tells me that verification is pending, "Our system has experienced a temporary problem."
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