All Posts Tagged With: "Adsense"
Funniest Adsense Forum Posts Ever
Chew on these funny forum posts about Adsense while I go try and melt my iPhone by running the latest update.?
Future Of Advertising In Danger???????
hmm… Someone went to school to figure that out.
Google is cheating publishers
Hang on while I call my lawyer
My idiot friend clicked 3 of my ads.
Either shake his hand or kick his ass
Adsense 1 million Doller !!!
Lost in translation I guess
Does traffic really increase your adsense earnings?
Yes! It’s like Viagra for your website
What Is Wrong With My Adsense?!
It’s Broke
Am I allowed to have Adult content
Sounds like a morality question to me.
Can you tell people to click?
Is that a question of ability or permission?
Oops. I accidentally clicked an ad.
In some countries they chop your fingers off for that.
Do you earn money if people visit your site?
Did you use all your brain cells thinking up that question?
Hacker put his adsense on my site for months
Sucks to be you!
Am I earning to much?
Yes, now go away!
Does Adsense Waste Time?
Depends on your perspective of Time!
Adsense doesn’t work are the golden days of adsense over?
Works on my machine so I guess not!
Anyone know use RSS to improve traffic?
Nope! I searched Google and not one person had a clue, sorry.
Is there a clear-cut answer?
Yes, but it’ll cost you $47.00 to find out how to get it.
Did this ProBlogger Really make $100,000.00 a month from AdSense?
He said he did didn’t he? Why on earth would he lie?
Why not getting paid for clicks?
Google hates you and wants to do nothing but cheat you out of everything you make.
Around 1,000 uniques a day, how much should I be getting?
That too will cost you $47.00 to find out how to get the answer, but for free I’ll tell you how stupid you are for asking that question.
Who to believe, adsense or adlogger?
Why would either lie to you?
10,000 uniques aday! and only $82 Normal?
Apparently for you it is.
When is the best time to put google adsense in your site,
Now!
Banned from AdSense - whats the alternatives?
Death!
How to get accepted
Try begging, maybe even protesting. In fact, why not write a blog about it then you’ll have the answer.
Redesign destroyed my earnings… thoughts?
Your design abilities suck!
Adsense cancelled in Brazil…what if it was in your country?
Move to another country. Duh!
Can you have AdSense and gambling ads on same site/page?
Again, is this a question of ability or permission?
Im getting scared about even STARTING adsense
Google can help you find a good therapist
HELP! I think i have to be accepted to adsense FIRST to be a newb?
But you don’t have to be accepted first to be a dumbass.
Important Newbie AdSense Question!
Search is your friend.
Thoughts On Why People Hate Google Adsense
Ahmed from Performancing has a list of the 10 Things People Hate About Google Adsense. He thinks most are silly and ridiculous but admits a couple are valid concerns. I’ve done similar lists The Most Annoying Adsense Questions Ever and 15 Signs You’re A Paranoid Adsense Freak and I’ve thought about a haters list but since Ahmed did one, I decided to just comment on a few of his.
9 - Google allows AdSense ads on scrapper sites
Ahmed suggests: Google needs to do manual checks both at the point of application (maybe introduce minimum conditions for joining - such as site age, traffic, etc) and at any random time every 6 months (or 1 year).
To get the scrappers out of the system sites need to be checked manually - although this raises another nasty problem where personal bias on ads can mean the difference between a site being seen as heavily optimized and blatant spam.
I think the random site testing is unrealistic, Google does this today (see How I Got Yellow Carded ByGoogle) but I’m definitely a proponent of the having each and every site that runs Adsense approved before they are allowed. This alone will eliminate a number of the MFA type sites. Not all of them, some people will be willing to go to the trouble to make an acceptable site then change it after approved but not all, many are in it believing they’ll make a quick fortune, those will get eliminated.
7 - Doesn’t pay enough
Ahmed suggests it’s: A problem of expectations and nothing to do with Google or Google AdSense.
AdSense is usually a function of traffic - if you have low traffic you might want to head the TLA way and push your PageRank up.
I completely agree here. Poor performance of Adsense is largely a case of mindset. Take the Adsense forum on Digital Point for example, what used to be a great resource has turned into a whining convention about how little Adsense pays and how crappy it is. Sure, it’s not what it used to be but that’s the reality of things. Advertisers are smarter so publishers must become smarter. If you spend all your time on someplace like the DP Forums it’s easy to see why someone would think Adsense sucks.
5 - Don’t allow arbitrage
Ahmed says: Losely translates into:
Don’t allow us to cheat by going against their TOS.
I’m all for arbitrage, but you have to make sure you don’t get caught :)
Arbitrage is allowed and there are plenty of sites still doing it. It’s the implementation that Google has a problem with. Affiliate marketers use this with great success. Using Arbitrage to push a product is one thing, using it to push a bunch of Made For Adsense sites is another matter entirely.
4 - Dont allow banned accounts to be reinstated
Ahmed says: Never had an account banned (touch wood) so I can’t say much about this. If it really is a zero-tolerance policy then it’s not necessarily a bad thing - although accounts that are wrongly banned for suspicious activity should be reactivated once the mistake is discovered. Google will only get better at detecting fraud though, so the number of false positives should decrease.
Again, anywhere you go people are whining about this or they’re paranoid because they spend all their time reading forums that have become havens for the Paranoid Adsense Freaks out there. Point of fact there have been numerous cases where accounts that were banned for the dreaded “invalid clicks” and have been reinstated after being investigated further by Google (Google Loves Me Again). I do agree that over time Google should get better at detecting false positives and the collateral damage should decrease everytime there is a new culling.
These are just a few of the points Ahmed brought up, read the rest of them at Performancing.com
What Is eCPM?
eCPM or Effective Cost Per Thousand (M being the Latin symbol for thousand) is a term that tends to baffle a lot of people. eCPM like CTR is used to determine how well a particular ad or ad spot is performing and is how the effectiveness of most campaigns is measured. It represents the average cost a publisher will earn for every 1000 impressions. It’s calculated with the following forumla.
eCPM = Earnings / Impressions x 1000
When optimizing your ad spots eCPM this is an important piece of information to look at. In most cases the higher the eCPM the better because that means your making more for the same amount of impressions. When optimizing ad spots you’d compare the eCPM for each and determine what combination of color, location and size yields the highest eCPM. If your comparing individual ads you’d compare the eCPM of each one and if one was significantly higher than another it might benefit you to switch completely to the higher paying ad.
What Is CTR?
Click Through Rate is the measurement of the percentage of visitors to a site who clicked on an ad averaged over a hundred ad impressions. It’s a rather simple formula.
CTR = clicks / impressions x 100
For example, if a site generates 1500 ad impressions which earn 20 clicks, the ctr is 1.33%
20 /1500 x 100 = 1.33%
This is the easiest method for determine ad performance and is especially useful when testing new ad placements or variations.
15 Signs You’re A Paranoid Adsense Freak?
- You worry constantly that something you did is going to get you banned.
- You sign into your Adsense account every 5 minutes to make sure it’s still working
- You cringe everytime you log into your Adsense account because it might not be working.
- You ask things like “Can I get Banned for this?” on Adsense forums.
- Your break out in a cold sweat every “Maintenance Saturday”
- You ‘d rather sit at home refreshing your Adsense earnings screen than go to a movie with friends or family.
- You think any fluctuation in your daily earnings or CTR will get you banned.
- You use Yahoo Publisher Network because your afraid you will get banned from Adsense.
- You’ve never logged into your Adsense account because your afraid you were banned.
- You have nightmares about being banned from Adsense
- You have to check your pulse after receiving an email from google.com
- You’ve bought every ebook that’s ever been published on how to make millions off of Adsense.
- You think your life will end if your Adsense account gets banned
- You really believed the “Death of Adsense” propoganda campaign
- You take your PC on vacation just so you can check your Adsense earnings
