Google Ads

[gothwalk]

I am fascinated by the odd irony of the google ads on dukestreet.org. Since they're slanted on keywords in the pages, they're almost invariably ads that I'd click on myself - except I'm not allowed to. Google are very very strict about fraudulent clicks, and I've heard of more than a few people who got thrown off the Adsense program because of suspected fraud. Another interesting aspect is that I'm not allowed, on the site itself, to tell people to follow the ad links - the idea is that only natural interest goes through, not people who've been told something like "look at our sponsors' pages!" or whatever the current phrase is. When I get some more content up - the actual essays will start to appear fairly soon, I hope - I'll start working on getting links to the site, and bringing it up in the search engines, and all that fun stuff. It's been a long time since I last ran a site completely myself, and I'm enjoying it.

Comments

[bastun-ie.livejournal.com]

Heh. We're thinking of using Google ads on AdoptionIreland. The problem is, of course, the keywords, and how to guarantee that the ads they show are for search/reunion/adoption-reform/genealogy/etc. sites, and not for adoption agency/baby-broker ones.

Our associated Yahoo! Groups home page now has ads put there by Yahoo... maybe 8 times out of 10, they're fine, but we've still had to put a disclaimer up - and I've seen other Groups with similar ideals to our own carrying ads they'd strenuously object to.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Google allows you to filter out some ads as well. I haven't tried it - there's nothing I can think of on my search terms that I wouldn't want to advertise.

[straif.livejournal.com]

It looks like(most?) ads have the URL at the bottom, plus hovering will tell you the URL.

Also, https://www.google.com/adsense/previewtool should let you do this.

How is adsense working for you?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Hits aren't really high enough yet to tell - ask me again in three months time. I'm seeing 0% clickthroughs one day, and 12.5% the next, but they're from totals of maybe 30 impressions, so they're not really significant yet.