By : Nidhi Gupta

Two weeks ago, in our article Make-ad-changes-without-replacing-code-on-google-adsense , we gave you a sneak peek of what was in store for November by Google. Now, we’re happy to let you know that Google has started rolling out its new ad management feature to publishers! As described earlier, this feature will save the settings of your ad units within your AdSense account. That means, each time you want to change the colors, channels, or even the corner styles for your ad units, you can make the changes directly in your account rather than generating and pasting new code. They’re still working on rolling this feature out to all publishers, so don’t worry if you don’t see it in your account yet — it’ll be there soon.

Below are a few answers to questions (as answered by Google) about this new feature:

How has the process of generating new ad code changed?

On the ‘Get Ads’ page of the ‘AdSense Setup’ tab, you’ll find the same code generation wizard you’ve used before. At the end of the wizard, you’ll now be prompted to provide a name for the ad unit you’ve just created. Its recommended to use a descriptive name so that you’ll remember where you pasted this ad unit. For instance, use names like “Homepage Leaderboard, example.com” or “Top 300×250, Sports pages.”

Why do I need to name my new ad units now?

With this new feature, all your new ad code will have a name and an unique ad slot ID. This will help you remember them so you can make changes to them later directly on the ‘Manage Ads’ page. As noted above, please be as specific as possible when naming your ad units and include information such as location, ad size, and domain.

Will the old ad code on sites still work?

Any ad code you’ve generated in the past will continue to work as normal. However, please note that the old ad code will not automatically be updated to include this feature. If you’d like to apply this new feature to your old ad units, you can import the code and save the new settings.

How to change the size of ad units on the ‘Manage Ads’ page?

Unfortunately, size is one of the few things you can’t change with this new feature. To change the size of your ads, you’ll need to visit the ‘Get Ads’ page to generate a new ad unit.

How to delete some of the ad units already created?

Right now, it isn’t possible to delete ad units from within your account. This is designed to help avoid instances where an active ad unit might be accidentally deleted. However, ad units that have not generated impressions for 7 days will become ‘inactive’ and will automatically be hidden. You can check the ‘Show inactive AdSense units’ box to unhide them.

Also, please keep in mind that this feature only applies to ad code generated from your account at https://www.google.com/adsense. If you create your ad code through one of the partners of Google, such as Blogger, Dada.net, or Apple iWeb, you’ll continue to use the standard ad code.

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