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What is the Google AdSense API?

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The AdSense API is a free beta service that allows developers to integrate AdSense directly into their service offerings, enabling their publishers to create or make changes to an AdSense account without leaving the developer's site. With the API, developers have the flexibility to tailor their AdSense implementation to their publishers and the functionality they need to manage their publishers' accounts. API developers can offer their publishers the option to customize ad colors, change the ad size and placement, include AdSense referrals units, and display the AdSense for search box. In addition to these service improvements, developers will receive a share of the revenue earned when publishers choose to add AdSense to their sites.

Essentially, the API enables developers sites to become a one-stop shop for publishers who'd like to monetize their content with relevant ads. For this reason, the API is ideal for developers whose users create their own content such as web hosting, web publishing, social networking, forum and blogging developers.