Google AdSense launched today

New content targed ad program for content providers

[eaden]

It's way cool :)

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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.

[saoi_jp]

Have any of you noticed that AdSense ads significantly slow the loading of the pages on your site?

There's one issue I experienced, but I have no idea how unique this issue is.

On one computer, using win98SE MSIE 6 (with all relevant updates), Google AdSense chokes the page. No display of anything under the ad location or within the table containing the ad. The problem repeated on five sites known to use AdSense.

However, I was unable to repeat the problem on another computer, and others who also tested some of those sites found no problems. Also, on the problematic computer, other browsers (Opera 6, for example) had no problem.

So the problem may be profoundly isolated, but since it happens to me, it may happen to others as well (especially since I've no idea what combination of factors cause the problem).

[saoi_jp]

oops. Reply to my previous post: See
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AdSense & IE6

[pab1953]

I'm just developing a niche content site. Couple of questions with respect to the site and AdSense, and really it comes down to the age old question:

"Does size matter?"

Specifically ...

-- If my new niche site began with, say, just a dozen pages, would G even consider me for AdSense if I applied? If not, what's a minimum size G would consider for AdSense acceptance?

-- If the site begins, as it must, with very small readership, would G consider me for AdSense? If not, what's a minimum readership G would consider acceptable for inclusion in AdSense?

Yours, hoping one day to live large,
Philip

[Fairla]

I've just started putting AdSense on my own site, and I've run into a problem with ads for a religious cult being displayed on pages that mention Israel and Iraq. (I'm not opposed to religion, mind you, but this really is a cult in my opinion, and not something I can in good conscience advertise on my site.) I can see how I could quickly use up all my filters blocking this kind of thing.

I hope Google will consider omitting religious and political ads from AdSense, or giving us a better way to filter them out. Otherwise, everything looks great, and I'm delighted Google is offering this to smaller publishers.

[div01]

Fairla,

You can go to your Adsense account, click on "Advanced Options" and filter out sites you do not wish to see.

A general observation re the apparent rules about not having any other text ads on the page you show Adsense ads. I went through a lot of trouble to make my pages compliant with this but I notice that a lot of big sites (like TheRegister) seem to have Adsense ads and text ads on their pages.

[Slade]

Anyone noticed that some of the ads look different now?

I think this morning I saw them with an ugly black border, now it seems to be cleaned up.

[Candleman]

RE: A general observation re the apparent rules about not having any other text ads on the page you show Adsense ads.

I believe adsense is referring to text ads that may resemble the adsense ads are not allowed. Regular ads that have a text link to another site such as affiliate sites are allowed.

[Fairla]

Div01, thank you -- I did try filtering out the ad, but a couple days later it was still appearing on my site.

I added a second site to the filter, but its ads also continued to appear on my site days later! So much for AdSense's "robust filtering tools."

I wrote to Google over the weekend and am hoping for a reply soon.

[springnet]

I did that too, used a filter on my site and the ad still kept coming up. Maybe it takes a day or two to kick in. Otherwise, I'm getting good results on my Austin, Texas discussion site. I found the ads to be pretty useful and led to some interesting sites, one was a site that helped you determine the value of your home. The other was a web hosting site that had some nice examples of other websites. I learned something and found these sites useful.

My first day on AdSense was yesterday and the results were, let's just say, AdSense been berry, berry good to Paul. I was impressed. Let's see how day two goes! Can this continue?

[Pete_Dizzle]

To all the people who suggested adding their own keywords to help GoogleBot. I think this goes against what google is trying to acheive. They are trying to have intelligent computers determine matches, instead of publishers and advertisers manually add keywords. I understand the logic of helping GoogleBot along, but it's more likely that Google will want to tweak it's AdSense engine rather than pick out manually entered keywords.

Just my 2 cents.