Adsense Features we'd like to see

[justraquel]

Adsense representative (Publishers who make over $30.000 per month should have an adsense representative.)

Greater customer service (The representative should be highly qualified and trained)

[netmeg]

I would like to be able to limit the ads on my sites to their geographic location, at least down to the State level. My main site is ONLY about Michigan, it will only ever BE about Michigan, and most of the visitors aren't going to be interested in clicking on ads for art exhibits in Oklahoma or concerts in Arkansas, or a cheap flight to India. Yet these are what I get.

[G_Smitty]

Targeting is my biggest concern. Instead of a blocking list I would rather have a allow or acceptance list. It would be awesome if I could choose from a list of advertiser targeted toward my content.

Another major concern would also be solved by a whitelist

[koan]

The ability to indicate bad keywords for a certain domain. Sometimes your topic can be ambiguous, say you have a site about "killer tomatoes". Now that could be a tomato sauce brand or a rock group. If your site is about the rock music group, you might want to indicate that "tomato sauce" is to be avoided in your ads, as it is completly irrelevant to your users.

[icedowl]

Instant removal of URLs that I've placed in the filter. Some are so tacky that I don't want them to ever be seen again. Once is one time too many.

[swa66]

Minimum cost for a click, my alternates ads are much better than the scammers running MFAs or things as "free" giveaways.
Kill the bottom feeding scum by making it too expensive for them to be around.

A button under the ads to report scams (don't navigate away, just get the click). If enough % of viewers press it: suspend adwords campaign/account till it's investigated by a human.)

blacklist of words I don't want to see in copy or URL displayed on my site ("free", "ebay", "amazon", "dating", ... come to mind to go in there by default for me)

regexp banlists (or at least some wildcards. It's hard to find all ebay sites. itf the URL has ebay in it, I don't want to see it as I know it'll be yet another scam)

[21_blue]

A new concept: Direct Link Ads.

Google provide publishers with URLs to which we can point, and those URLs then serve ads about specified topics (in the same format as Adlinks). For example:

http://www.google.com/direct/blue-widgets.asp?pub-code=123456787654321

Our pages would load faster; this doesn't use javascript, so would defeat the adblocking software; we would be able to make sure ads are targetted to our pages; our pages wouldn't be at risk of being cluttered by inappropriate ads; and it would be a win-win because Google would still control what ads are shown to the surfer.

[Visit Thailand]

While there are a few things I would like, my main wish would be for G to add more countries to their EFT system for payment.

[vurdlak]

yeah 21_BLue has great idea!

DIRECT LINK ADS!

I would love this also! For example there are some websites that don't sell anything, but still pay for example 5 cents per click (for visitor) why not providing this funciton like links for firefox, piccasa etc... but without conversions?

[toomer]

Minimum cost for a click, my alternates ads are much better than the scammers running MFAs or things as "free" giveaways.

I was a big advocate of this myself -- but was thinking about it a bit more yesterday. Woudn't this have the unwanted side-effect of making the entire MFA system that much easier?

Case in point:

1) Joe MFA can set his maximum cost-per-click in AdWords to get people onto his site. He'll try to find low cost clicks, like the $0.02 - $0.07 range.

2) An occasional visitor gets his ad, clicks on it and lands on his page. Now Joe wants the visitor to click on one of his ads, preferably for the maximum $ amount possible.

3) Joe MFA has set up competitive ad filters, to filter out all his other MFA buddies and their low-cost clicks.

4) Joe has set a "minimum" acceptable CPC for his MFA site to be something like $0.25 or so. He'll probably run just a few 1 or 2 ad blocks, so that he's not overrun with PSA's ... or set something else up as alternates.

So now Joe can guarantee his cost to get someone in is less than $0.08, and his revenue for when someone clicks out is at least $0.25. You could set something like that on autopilot -- it would make the MFA process that much easier.

Am I right? If so, I guess I don't want the minimum CPC option after all ... it's bad enough that I have to chase down all the MFA's, "free offers", ringtones, etc. that are overrunning my sites.

(BTW, since my traffic is still very low ... less than 500 impressions per day ... setting up the competitive filter has had a LARGE positive effect on my earnings)

[david_uk]

Our pages would load faster; this doesn't use javascript, so would defeat the adblocking software; we would be able to make sure ads are targetted to our pages; our pages wouldn't be at risk of being cluttered by inappropriate ads; and it would be a win-win because Google would still control what ads are shown to the surfer.

I like the idea. My only concern is that MFA's targeting certain sectors would appear on the list of ads. I wonder how it would be possible to serve up ads on the topics we have requested but without the clutter of low paying MFA's.

An example of the problem is my sector. Doing a Google search on the keyword shows up 6/7 ads on the search pages as MFA's. I'd be worried that I'd be inviting the same crowd to appear on my site!

[rkhare]

now as adwords is moving to local time setting, adsense should also follow with immediate effect [webmasterworld.com ].

would be of great help in optimizing our earnings.

[gregbo]

I would like to be able to limit the ads on my sites to their geographic location, at least down to the State level.

State-level geotargeting doesn't work reliably. You should read the paper I provided a link to in the tracking and logging forum to understand why.