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Usually if you see on your website a white/blank space instead of Adsense ads, this means that Adsense cannot show adds in that unit for some reasons (we are going to talk about possible reasons below) and also you have enabled the “Fill space with a solid color” feature (in the “Choose what to display if no relevant ads are available” settings of this ad unit). I probably should also say that if you set “Show public service ads” instead of the “Fill space with a solid color” one, the PSA will be shown instead of a blank space.

If you notice no usual ads for content being shown on your website first of all – don’t panic: even though some of the reasons may indicate your AdSense account is in danger of being terminated (or is already terminated), there are others reasons which mean nothing bad and just need a bit of attention from your side.

Today I was surprised to find an email starting with words “dear adwords customer” in my mailbox. It was weird enough, because I don’t use Google AdWords and therefore I don’t have an account with them. But even more strange was the fact that the email asked to use some URL which had nothing to do with google.com to login to my account and check “a new alert from Google AdWords Team” I supposedly received recently.

Based on those 2 facts it was pretty easy for me to guess: I have been targeted for a phishing attempt against my google account. Most probably if I had followed the instructions in the email, my account with google would already have password changed by hackers, my private info stolen and my AdWords account balance used to advertise some questionable sites (if I would have one).

So, if you receive some suspicious emails from Citibank, Facebook, Google and others on daily basis, and not sure how to deal with those, continue reading. Hope you will find this article useful.

I am reading Google Analytics support forums for quite some time now and I see a lot of people asking over and over: “Why Google Analytics suddenly stops showing any new stats but it was working just yesterday / a week ago / in last month?”

Based on my experience I’ve compiled a list of why usually such happens and I hope you will find it useful. I am looking forward to make this list complete, so feel free to share your experience in comments! Thanks.