Google's Adsense Crawler Gets Permission

The Google AdSense blog just announced that there is a new function that will provide you with the option to allow the AdSense Crawler to access your username/password protected directories.

The new AdSense feature called Site Authentication will provide better quality and more targeted ad in your login protected directories. Basically all you would have to do is set up a special U/P for the Googlebot. Now, this is assuming that you want ads in your secure areas.

The upside of this new add-on is that you will have a very specific and captive audience that are seeing the ads. "For example, let's say your news site has a premium content area, with articles that only paying members can access. To get ads on those pages, you can use Site Authentication to provide (the) crawler with a test username and password."

The down side is that you will need to do some house cleaning. If you have any sensitive or proprietary information behind door #1, you'll want to make sure you don't have the AdSense ads on those pages.

Google just keeps throwing useful little things into the mix. I just read that Google is now a certified domain name registrar and they may be releasing a new Google Phone called the Switch. The new phone is a collaberation between Google and Samsung. Some are eveb labeling it the "iPhone Killer"

You know; sometimes I sit back and reflect on simpler times. Times when there was no Google. Then I realize it wasn't as simple as I though back then.