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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.
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.
I completely agree. I co-run a hobby based site which is very content rich for a very niche widget market.
It's a busy site for it's market (a few hundred visits a day and a very active forum - it's a very small market).
I'm not sure whether or not it's worth it? We wouldn't bother our users with adverts unless it's worth our while, and with that kind of visit stats I'm not sure it is.
I'd love for this site to pay for it's own hosting by using something like this, that's why the concept is so appealing.
It's difficult to make a commercial judgment over an essentially non-commercial site in the first place, but when you have no idea of pay per click figures, it's almost impossible.
TJ
BAD – targeted aka premium ad space is getting commoditized
UGLY – selling your targeted media soul for jokingly low ron rates
I like the suggestions about having a simulator to try it out for your site, which might give an idea of what sort of ads at what CPC would show--I'll pass that on, but no promises. I think when Google introduced content ads, someone here (or a blogger) came up with a url/script where you could just insert your url and you could see the types of ads that would show, so you might want to check that out. bnc929, I always like your suggestions too. I think starting out with just a couple standard ad sizes is a good idea, but it would be fun to offer more, so I'll mention that as feedback.
As far as what "personal" pages are, I think if you've got informational sites that people like to visit, that's probably a good match. A site that just has pictures of your cat and dog playing--maybe not so much. :) But sites that provide solid content, especially niche sites that don't want to hunt down their own advertisers, should really benefit from this. WebmasterWorld is usually focused toward people who want to make money from their site, but there's a whole universe of people like trillianjedi and europeforvisitors that mostly produce informational sites, and the chance to recoup their costs without much effort is nice. I hope AdSense does encourage more diversity and voices on the web, because now smaller sites can work on what they're interested in--the content of their sites--without worrying very much about the costs of self-publishing information. And NazaretH, you have great timing. :)
I think when Google introduced content ads, someone here (or a blogger) came up with a url/script where you could just insert your url and you could see the types of ads that would show
That is interesting technology. Relevant ads served based on only a URL.
The FAQ says that, if targeted ads aren't available, public-service ads are run.
Under a worst-case scenario, this could mean that, on a travel site called Elbonia for Tourists, a page about the little village of Mudville would get a public-service AdWords banner when no Mudville AdWords were in the system.
In real life, the crawler probably will pick up "Elbonia" and maybe a few other words like "hotels" and "travel" in the navigation scheme, so that AdWords for Elbonia hotels, Elbonia travel agencies, or travel accessories such as luggage would be displayed. Or maybe a few basic keywords like "travel," "games," "computers," or whatever will be associated with an AdSense partner site at the time of its approval. The latter seems to be the approach used by Tribal Fusion, which has been running Google AdWords banners for some time.
WebmasterWorld is usually focused toward people who want to make money from their site, but there's a whole universe of people like trillianjedi and europeforvisitors that mostly produce informational sites, and the chance to recoup their costs without much effort is nice.
AdSense had better do more than cover my costs, or I'll stick with my Tribal Fusion banners and affiliate links. :-)
Seriously...I'm sure that AdSense will be a handy addition to "labor of love" sites, but it could be even more useful as a source of revenue for small- to medium-sized Web publishers that run their sites as businesses (e.g., editorially-driven content sites with 500,000 to 5,000,000 page views per month).
What happens if I insert the code to all of my other not-so-awesome websites that have been rejected by AdSense editors?
What happens if I insert the code to all of my other not-so-awesome websites that have been rejected by AdSense editors?
I think it says somewhere in the FAQs that you don't need to tell them if you are adding the code to a new site because they can automatically tell - or something like that. So, I assume, they will detect that you're using the ads on your rejected "not-so-awesome" sites. Or maybe I assume too much?
Beth
