Damn you Google! :)

It's just days ahead of our product beta launch - AdPushup.com - which lets you optimize your Adsense earnings. Our MVP is focused on WordPress, and one of the components is the Visual Editor through which multiple ads (locations, designs, size etc.) can be placed on the WordPress website. I feel our editor is more flexible in terms of ad placement and settings, but this news is definitely a threat, or a validation in disguise.

Note to team: launch the beta even faster!

Nice! I think our customers would love to use this tool - is there a way we can work together? [email protected]

Hi Ned,

Thanks for the note, just sent you an email!

Getting webmaster tools data right in the article editor would be interesting. Or warnings/alerts from the webmaster tools entity directly in the wp dashboard.

Cool to see official Google PHP code (this may be a first?). The code looks well-structured, documented and secure.

>Use of the Google Publisher Plugin is governed by Google's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

This is also a first for me. Anyone know of other Wordpress plug-ins which enforce their own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy?

I thought the same thing. I won't be using Adsense and there are many, many ways to verify your Webmaster Tools account, but am curious at taking a look at the code.

Can someone name the type of wordpress theme used in the google plugin screen shots? Looks like a nice theme!

BoldR http://demo.iceable.com/boldr/

wow thanks! going to try this theme.

Interesting. I use two plugins to handle adsense and sitemaps for Google. This will handle the adsense and maybe sitemap generation.

Why would Google do this?

It's in their best interest for (more) publishers to publish (more) ads in order to generate (more) revenue? This plugin may help them "optimize" (a.k.a. increase revenue).