Google AdSense launched today

New content targed ad program for content providers

[eaden]

It's way cool :)

[google.com...]

Not sure if this should be in Google News or adwords. I guess this forum should really be the one for AdSense questions as it's about advertising.

Also, it seems that the site hangs in IE. Mozilla ( as usual ) works perfectly so use that.

Unlike the exising content targed ads you do not need 20 million visitors to put these ads on your site.

[loanuniverse]

LOL Edwin... I know what you mean.. I am at work and every couple of hours I am checking in to see if another 100 pageviews kept me at 1% CTR or if it went below that.

[enotalone]

loanuniverse, i see similar CTR stats. just started an hour ago or so, now shows 864 Impressions and just 1 click through. i had better expectations, but perharps their bot did not crawle all the pages to show the most related ads. also another note that ads prity much are not related enough.

[loanuniverse]

My CTR is a bit over 1% with only 500 pageviews (6 clicks). If you have shown that many ads 864 and only gotten 1 click then they must not be really targetted or you are getting a lot of public services. Can you sen me a sticky mail with your URL

[enotalone]

does anyone know what is the useragent name for Google AdSense? is it googlebot or something different? need to dig my logs little to see if she was around.

[loanuniverse]

I went to your site and the code that I saw was the tribalfusion google syndication. The adsense code is much more accurate IMHO as it will crawl the whole site. Granted I only visited 6 pages, but did not see any [b]ads by Google{/b] banner.

[enotalone]

you are right loanuniverse
i have googleads inside tribalfusion, so they show google ads when they dont have one. do you think directy insert will help?

[loanuniverse]

I think it will help... Although, I saw some good targetting in a couple of pages when you were showing the big "leaderboard" type ad, but when it went to 468 size it game some untargetted results.

BTW, the best thing would be to put the adsense code in just a portion of the site and compare it to Tribal's CPM model. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. I know I am.

[enotalone]

the FAQ page says "You can only place one set of ads (one copy of the AdSense HTML ad code) on each page."

does this mean i can't have both 468x60 and 120x600 on the same page? should i use only one of them, but never together?

[Edwin]

I have a "presentation" feature type ad that combines text, bullets and graphics in a box that I sell directly to advertisers. I wonder if I can use AdSense on that page, or if the fact that the ad is predominatly textual precludes this.

Is there a contact point for querying specific pages with Google to get a Y/N? This single page gets 200,000+ visits a month so it's kind of a key point...

[GoogleGuy]

cdkrg, that makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't expect our ads to beat the clickthrough on carefully tuned ads that you've developed. I'll pass on your feedback (and everyone else's feedback!) to the AdSense group. I really like the ideas that everyone here has suggested, from customization to default ads. I can't say for sure what the priorities will be, but I know that people here are excited about AdSense and looking at what they can do to make the program better.