nyet - 1:55 pm on Apr 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

dhatz,

the problem with that is each advertiser would have to define their own benchmark for success. That would be good (for us) but I think it might be very difficult to engineer protection against self-serving (so to speak) 'definitions' only aimed at reducing CPC (and therefore EPC for Adsense Pub's or G).

Sort of the opposite of what is going on in adsense these days where some 'publishers' are simply generating low quality pages 'optimized' with expensive keyword triggers.

I would like to see the Bid system stay as it is but be able to use my criteria (average page views) as an 'excluding' factor to determine in which situations my ad will be displayed.

For example, I'd like to be able to say "don't display my ad on adsense publisher sites which don't generate at least x% of conversions" I would still bid and pay as usual (by the click) I would just have more control (setting my priorities) about *where* my ad is placed.

"smart pricing" sorta does this in a way, but I would rather define the 'success' criteria.

[edited by: nyet at 1:58 pm (utc) on April 28, 2004]