Do you use Western Union as your payment method? If so, Google Adsense had just made a couple minor updates that you should know.
Expiration date extended
They’ve now extended the deadline to pick up your Western Union payments from 35 days to 60 days. If you haven’t picked up your payment within 60 days of issuance, the payment will be credited back to your account and a payment hold will be placed on your account. You’ll then see a notice in your account with more details on how to proceed.
Split payments
As you may know, Western Union has specific payout limits depending on location. In the past, if your payment amount exceeded the Western Union payout limit in your country, they’d send your payment by secured express delivery check instead. Unfortunately, this would also incur a delivery fee, so they’re happy to let you know that this is now no longer the case.
Now, if your payment exceeds the maximum payment amount, they’ll divide up the amounts but still send them via Western Union. For instance, if the payout limit in your country …

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Some search engines and directories are considering penalizing page rank or not …