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.

[cdkrg]

I have seen a few issues with pageloading with AdSense. But I'm delivering thousands of them a day with no problems so on the whole I'd say the loading is pretty good.

I did experience one time where for some odd reason the banner tried to load first and things were a bit weird. But like I said. I server at least 20,000 a day without any problems.

[cjtripnewton]

Twice I noticed 5-7 second delays in the loading of the ads. Now I'm noticing a slight delay on all my pages. I've built my mental health information site so that it's very lean, and I'm used to instant loading. That's why I asked. I've started to see AdSense ads on all kinds of sites ranging in quality from extremely poor to quite nice. I'm just wondering if Google is prepared for the volume. I only noticed the drag on my site today.

[slashroot]

I am seeing between 3 to 5 second lag on some of my pages.

It seems to be random though. At times it loads almost instantly, and then it seems to take a longer. Might me a load balancing issue. I am assuming/hoping this will get straightened out as the dust settles...

[yvt360]

I am new to the board and have mainly just been reading all the great posts.
I just wanted to share our initial experience with the Google AdSense program. We have added Google AdSense to one page on our website so far to see how it all works. I must say, it is sweeeeet!
Very easy to implement. If you have targeted traffic hitting the page these ads are on, you will make money. We are seeing between a 4-5% click through, and the commissions seem more than fair.

[edited by: heini at 4:13 pm (utc) on July 2, 2003]
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[Eternity]

is google.com/adsense down now? I can't seem to access it

[Eternity]

ok strange, I use netscape and it works now

[cottage]

My AdSense adverts were off context, so I added a noscript tag straight after the opening body tag containing relevant key words I wanted for the page, and hey presto, 3 days later the adverts changed to what I needed.

My site was a classifieds hobby site, I wanted AdSense adverts about the hobby, not the classifieds provision - all sorted now.

[Imaster]

I always get logged out of the member account very soon. I think it would be a great idea to increase the time limit.

[ineedmoreexercise]

Cottage,

What kind of noscript tag did you use? Could you give an example of the code?

Did you hide the script in comment tags to prevent older browsers from showing the text on the page?

Thanks

[slashroot]

It's a great source of extra $$ for hobby webmasters who don't want to chase down advertisers, and the ads will be really relevant because it's drawing from such a large pool of advertisers.

Thank you for your input, GG.

I have been supporting (on my own) quite a few hobby sites as well as non-profit, public-service sites on several highly focused subject areas that I deeply believe in. On more than one occassion, I had considered banner exchange to support these sites, but was reluctant to do so considering the options that were available thus far. With Google supplied content Ads, I felt comfortable enough to actually showcase an Ad on my sites -for the very first time. I am keeping my fingers crossed...

So all the people who were asking about how to run content-targeted ads and who didn't have a huge site: Now's your chance! Give it a try. :)

Well, I did take it for a spin on some of my non-profit/hobby sites, and for the most part it's looking good. :)

I see a need for G to supply Ads that are better targetted. I am hoping that as y'all fine tune Adsense Ad targetting algo, this will get ironed out fairly soon.