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.

[NeedScripts]

I am personally very happy to see new AdSense program. Hope it works out for both Advertisers and Publisher ;)

Good Luck Google & GG.

P.S..

Any chance of clarifying this?

I believe they are not wanting to serve duplicate "AdWords". For example, if you have account with some Ad Network that is also serving Google AdWords, then they dont' want you to put that code and AdSense code on the same page, cuz this might end up showing the ads twice and people coming to your web site might not like it :)

Hope this helps.

Need Scripts

[mykel]

I totally agree with the people who express doubts concerning the percentage which will be paid out. Look at it this way: if this was some other company and not Google and they said "put our ads on your pages, we'll pay you. we don't know how much, but you'll get something". Would you trust something like that? You'd laugh in their face!
Now I like Google and am not saying that they're trying to cheat anyone, but some hard numbers would be nice. Gosh, even an estimate - we don't even know if they pay 1% or 10%.

[irock]

In most cases, search engines pay around 20-50%

[rts5678]

hmmmm...
From the list of the sites using adsense (gopi's post, msg#58) and a part of google's adsense case study, two of the sites wifizonenews.com, and 80211-news.com both appear to share duplicate content and almost a similar look and feel (with the same contact address). The fact that these sites have been 'reviewed' and approved by Google's adsense staff is interesting. Leads me to wonder what might be the threshold for Google to classify two or multiple similar sites by the same owner as duplicate content worth penalizing.

Is it ok for two sites to be sharing the same "news" under two different names without a whole lot of unique content. Why not use a domain redirect in that case if both sites are owned and operated by the same party. How is the editorial criteria (in terms of site quality) different, if at all, for adsense than for G's main index.

It'd be interesting to see what GG has to say on this.

[Clark]

Can someone who uses adsense tell me if you need to display ads in the same format as google, on the right or left side or can it work with other layouts? If there's a sample page with formats that would be cool...

[NazaretH]

Funny thing... We've been just looking for a company to serve ads on our site and, while surfung the net we couldn't make a choise, simply because we got no experience with this kind of thing. We've got tired of this surfing and dropped the idea with a few words "if only Google had a program like this..."

and BANG! A few hours later and I see this thread. Google is waaay too speedy now(had a good rest last month I guess ;), it took them less than a day to create what we need! LOL

[trillianjedi]

I have a couple of questions which are unanswered on their website:-

1. Can UK websites use adsense (I appreciate that payment would be in US$)?

2. What are their policies on whether or not a site is eligible?

3. How does it compare with something like kelkoo?

TJ

[europeforvisitors]

Tribal Fusion has been serving Google AdWords ads for a while now, and I've experimented with them on my site. My reaction has been:

POSITIVE: CPMs on a par with other TribalFusion advertisers, plus enough ads to fill up the bulk of my TribalFusion inventory.

NEGATIVE: Run-of-network CPMs for targeted ads.

Now, with AdSense, I'll have the opportunity to run even more highly targeted AdWords and--conceivably--to make more money. Plus, I'll have the ability to filter out AdWords for my affiliate partners, which I don't have with TribalFusion's version of AdWords.

So I'll give AdSense a try (assuming that Google doesn't consider my existing affiliate links to be "text ads"). I think it's a great program for content sites that want to offer targeted advertising at a time when targeted banners and other display ads are hard to come by.

Note that I said "content sites." Most Webmaster World members seem to be SEOs and owners of e-commerce businesses, so AdSense may not offer a great deal to them. But for those of us with content sites--and editorial sites in particular--AdSense is a very interesting concept. The fact that it comes from Google, a company with a "do no evil" reputation, makes it all the more appealing.

[running scared]

According to an article I have just read you can be a non-US publisher but the site has to be in English and currently you need to be able to accept US$ cheques. I therefore guess that for small UK sites you might want to hold fire for a bit unless you just want to try it out.

Anyway off to disable the rest of my content ads in my Adwords account for the time being.

I wonder, will Adsense show on non-indexable pages?

Quielty amusing - just seached for adsense on google to get to the FAQ page. Very nearly didn't see the premium sponsored link to it - mind is so conditioned to "screen" those premium postions out. Also someone got an adword on it already.

Think it could be great from a publishers viewpoint.

[bluelook]

I just saw Google Adwords on a memberīs free site on Lycos UK. The ads there hadnīt nothing to do with the content of that memberīs page. Maybe that was a test, or something.
I didnīt know that Lycos had that agreement, to use it on members sites...
Itīs a lot better to have adwords sites in content related sites, than there...