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The adCenter blog announced some new features being launched for adCenter beta. The upgrades are

Easily go to any Campaign or Ad Group in your account via our improved navigation
? Import your other search campaigns, including third-party campaigns, into adCenter with one Excel spreadsheet or comma-separated values (CSV) file.
? Delete poor-performing keywords right on the keyword performance page.
? Download all adCenter data into Excel.
? From any page, find campaigns, ad groups, keywords, and ads that contain all or part of a search query string.

These are all very important features and much needed upgrades. I thank MSN for finally support bulk uploads and downloads of account information via spreadsheets. For those that are not familiar with this, it is essentially an account dump into a spreadsheet. A very useful feature that Google, for some reason just disabled. This will make it a lot easier for people like myself to make mass changes to account and even import account setups from Google. I’m sure a lot of account managers will appreciate this, I know I sure do.

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Barry at SEroundtable.com reports that some WebMasterWorld forum members have noticed some average position reporting issues, but adCenter people assured me they are working on it and hope to have a fix soon. So if you see a huge drop in your average position, don’t worry about it, they will hopefully have it fixed soon.

Move over WebMasterWorld and DigiPoint forums, MSN has launched a forum dedicated to helping people answer adCenter and MSN focused questions.

While its pretty slow right now, I have a feeling if this forum is kept up with on MSN’s end, it will be a valuable resources to advertisers and campaign managers as they stumble through adCenter’s unique style.

Hello [Advertiser],

We?ve listened to your feedback and I am pleased to let you know about an upcoming Microsoft adCenter upgrade that offers new features to improve your online advertising experience.

Some upgrade highlights:

?Now, use Microsoft adCenter with the Firefox 1.5 browser!
?Daily, weekly and monthly data will be updated every hour to help you view results and optimize campaigns in real-time.
?Select the time frame for which you want your campaign and order summaries to show, instead of viewing them in the life-to-date format.
?User-interface changes to the reporting tab will make usability simpler.
?API upgrades:
oAPI customers will now have access to more procedure calls. Detailed API communications will be sent to API customers.

Your keywords and ads will remain live during the upgrade.

The adCenter upgrade should be complete on August 5th between 8 A.M. and 3 P.M. Pacific Time. During this period, your current keywords and ads will continue to run; however, you won?t be able to access adCenter to make changes.