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You can easily earn a little money from your Blogger blog by linking an AdSense account, assuming your blog meets the eligibility requirements . Just bear in mind that unless your blog has a custom domain, you must start on your blog's Earnings tab to associate an AdSense account. How to connect your Blogger blog to AdSense If your blog is  eligible for AdSense , you can easily connect your existing AdSense account or apply for a new Hosted AdSense account. 1. Sign in to your Blogger account and open the Earnings settings for your blog. 2. Click the Sign up for AdSense button 3. Sign in to the Google account you are using for AdSense 4. Complete the AdSense association  or application process 5. Customize ad preferences New applications for AdSense may take up to a week to review, and sometimes longer than that. Read on for detailed instructions.

This week Google helps you expand your horizons with updates to Google+, Maps, Translate and more. My top updates: Google+ launches Topics. There are currently at least 162 topics for you to browse and discover people, Collections, and Communities that share your interests, in English, Spanish and Portuguese. AdSense expands policy prohibiting placing ads on pages with dangerous or derogatory content Getting around is getting easier. Google Maps now lets you save your parking location, get local business reviews in your own language, and has a new home screen for users in India . Plus Google Trips, the travel planning app, now lets you better manage reservations. Making the internet more inclusive in India: Google introduced improved translation of nine Indian languages in Google Translate and Chrome , 22 Indic languages were added to GBoard for Android , and (along with Oxford University Press) is bringing the Rajpal & Sons Hindi dictionary online.  Now anyone  can creat

U Update November 7, 2019: There is a new YouTube Partner Program setup page in YouTube Studio , which no longer requires you link AdSense before your channel is eligible for monetization. Check your channel's monetization status:  https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC/monetization Update January 16, 2018: A s of today, the YouTube Partner Program now requires that your channel have at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time over the past year. Currently monetized channels that do not meet those requirements will continue to show ads through February 20th. Learn how to use YouTube Analytics to understand your channel's watch time . ----- original article ----- YouTube recently changed the eligibility requirements for monetization . Your channel must have at least 10,000 public lifetime views to display ads on videos. And if you are not currently a Partner, you now need to apply for the YouTube Partner program . While that means you won't be able

This week’s big updates: There is a new application process for the YouTube Partner Program Update on YouTube Restricted Mode: why your content may be restricted - and a new way to provide feedback! Google+ gets its first G Suite-only update: track Google+ adoption at your organization with new usage metrics The updated Google Earth lets you voyage the world Also this week was the Facebook F8 Developer Conference so there are a bunch of FB updates, with Messenger, AR, VR and some unusual interfaces dominating the news. Plus tips and updates for YouTubers, Google Plussers, live streamers, webmasters, AdSense publishers, business owners and much more. Happy Earth Day! US National Parks are free this weekend Earth Day 2017 on Google+ - My Planet My Part  Google: Happy Earth Day World!  Walk, Climb, and Swim with Wildlife in Google Earth Flickr Earth Day Gallery Facebook: Helping People Support Earth Day and Our Planet ( Image: Western Hemisphere of the Earth (Publ

You create a Movie from your videos and photos in Google Photos, then add your own music or audio track with just a few clicks. If you have a  supported  device, all you need to do is select from your images and video clips to create a Movie. The app offers a number of songs you can add, but you might have trouble finding just the right track. YouTube offers a much larger variety of music in the YouTube Audio Library which can be used for any project.  And you can add those tracks to your Google Photos Movies. The following instructions explain how to do that on your supported Android device. Note that this works for any audio file downloaded to your device. Just keep in mind that if you plan to share the Movie publicly, any music needs to be licensed for use. How to add music from the the YouTube Audio Library to your Google Photos Movie 1. Create your Google Photos Movie on your Android device ( Instructions ) 2. Find the YouTube Audio Library track you want to use

Updates this week (nothing too major): Google+ Community managers: Apply to Community Vanguards to meet other community managers and learn more about running Communities!  Google Photos update: stabilize your video  Google AutoDraw turns your quick sketch into a nice drawing  Google Duo audio calling is now available to users worldwide Staying secure? Burger King’s new ad forces Google Home to advertise the Whopper Studio71 YouTube Channels Hacked By ‘OurMine’, Including Roman Atwood, Lilly Singh, Logan Paul Spain Arrests Russian Thought to Be Kingpin of Computer Spam   NSA-leaking The Shadow Brokers published exploits targeting most versions of Windows  Plus there are tons of tips for YouTube, Google+, AdSense, Blogger, webmasters, businesses and more. 🎸🕶🌞🎶 Watch the Coachella Music Festival live - for free! - this weekend on YouTube Image:  AutoDraw bunny

New this week: The big news for Creators was that the YouTube Partner Program has new eligibility requirements. Channels must have at least 10,000 lifetime views to show ads on videos. While this comes amidst a lot of criticism from advertisers about where their ads are displaying, YouTube says this change has been in the works since last November . YouTube TV is now live in five US Metro areas: New York, Los Angeles, SF Bay Area, Chicago, and Philadelphia  Now you can remove your current Google+ or YouTube custom URL, and then - if eligible - be offered a new one. This is great for folks who have changed their name or rebranded their business. Android 7.1.2 was officially released, with bug fixes and improvements for Pixel and Nexus phones  And the fight against fake news rages on: ”Fact Check” is now available in Google Search and News around the world. And Facebook is implementing changes to stop misinformation and false news . Plus tips and updates for YouTube, Google P

If you are a YouTuber, and someone is harassing you, spamming you or you otherwise don't want them to contact you or comment on your videos or channel, you can block them. There are two ways to block someone on YouTube: 1. Block a YouTube Contact  in the YouTube mobile app.  That will block the person across Google products. Read on to get detailed instructions on  how to block someone in YouTube Contacts   2. Block someone from commenting on your videos or channel  on a desktop computer When you block someone in YouTube through their channel, comments or a live chat, that person's account  is NOT  blocked in any other Google products. Read on to get detailed instructions on how  block someone from commenting on your YouTube channel Related articles:  How to block someone on Google+ How to block someone in Google Photos How to block someone in Hangouts How to manage your Google Blocked Users Learn more:  Google Accounts Help: Block or unb

It's been an eventful week. Here are my top updates: YouTube has been fine tuning their ad systems to address advertiser concerns, which may be causing fluctuations in revenue for YouTube Partners. YouTube recommends creators make sure that videos “are aligned with the advertiser friendly content guidelines” and pledged to make the review process around appeals even faster (although it didn’t help that there was a bug (now fixed ) that prevented submitting an appeal on some demonetized videos.) Location sharing moved from Google+ to Google Maps Twitter no longer counts @ usernames towards the 140 character post limit, plus they have ditched the egg . In response, some people have asked “Does anyone at Twitter even use Twitter?” And, naturally, coming into the first day of April, there have been a lot of unusual software and hardware launches. So far my favorites are the Chromebook Groupie Stick ,the T-Mobile ONEsie, and Ms Pacman in Google Maps. Plus you should definite