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Like others on this board I've seen some dramatic downward shifts in revenue from Adsense so I'm keen to try any alternatives.
I got the email last night also. Have signed up and am waiting for approval. Will let everyone know what it's like once I've been approved and had a thorough look around.
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No PSAs.
PayPal option for payment.
Transparency = 50/50 revenue split.
Topics instead of keywords (well, this one is a mixed blessing in that the topics are more general so they aren't going to be as attractive and specific in terms of relevance but at least you won't have the wrong keyword produce ads that are completely off).
However, then you have to remember that this is Kanoodle. The bids aren't going to much higher than a few pennies on most terms so the payouts will probably be much smaller than AdSense. The clickthroughs will probably be lower too (due to ad relevancy of topic over keyword). You also have to open a new account for every website -- that I'm guessing will be changed soon.
But, hey, it's at least an alternative until Overture enters the game.
[edited by: Drastic at 9:06 pm (utc) on Oct. 6, 2004]
[edit reason] no adult topics [/edit]
Anyone have actual experience and a sense of payouts? Not sure if this is the right place to post.
Would AdSense TOS allow you to have them on the same page or as the "fallback" ad instead of PSA?
Rgds
DHD
Incidentally, the Kanoodle approval process was pretty quick and the stats are in-fact real-time. The only reason I went ahead with it was because I had a small site that kept getting PSAs (even though it's certainly a Google-friendly site -- I'm thinking it was the link to report dead links triggered the word "dead" in the AdSense killfile).
Either way I figured I'd give Kanoodle a shot serving up entertainment ads.
No clicks yet so there's nothing to report but the impression stats are being updated practically immediately -- and the integration process is as easy as with Google.
However this might be a good thing for those that aren't accepted into adsense or for whatever reason, have been kicked out of that network.
Maybe I'm missing something but maybe I could serve a K ad as the alternate ad from the *first* AdSense block. Then, according to AdSense, that can only happen if there are no AdSense ads at all for that page right now.
Does that sound right to you? (Other opinions welcome too!)
I read the AS TOS as you can't have competing ads on the same page in any one viewing of that page, not "forever"...
Rgds
Damon
It just seems that the quality of clicks is somehow better on the big programs.
However, I saw a page earlier today that had an AdSense PSA on top and regular AdSense-served ads in a second block.
I have a question of my own -- since I tried to put in the script as an alternate and AdSense said "nyet" (so I just went ahead and removed the AdSense code). Is there a way to put the code in? Google seems to want a simple URL and won't take the javascript from Kanoodle (I actually had this same problem trying to put a CJ.com alternate ad earlier).
SN
