Kimkia - 8:17 am on Aug 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

I do great with AdSense and looked forward to the Referrals. But I had to remove them quickly. I picked some appropriate ads that I knew would work well for my site - a time consuming chore, given the way things are so disorganized, but still worthwhile at first. But boy oh boy, was it a mistake to pick "best performing."

It wasn't an issue at first, because my picks were showing up and doing well, as I knew they would ...then they must have gone over budget and disappeared, leaving me with crap ads that had nothing whatsoever to do with my category.

Someone else said that you should tighten up the categories that advertisers can choose to place their ads. Here, here. Right now they are showing up willy-nilly, and performing about the same.

I can't afford participate on this level. Things need to improve big time before I will use Referrals again.