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AdSense and other contextual ad competitors

Can i use both?

         

leila222

3:27 pm on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Hi there ,

Can i have AdSense and Adsonar on one and same site? And which one is better?

Thanks,
Leila

ken_b

4:28 pm on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I think you can have them on the same site, but not on the same pages.

Try scrolling back through threads in this forum, or look in the Advetizing and Affiliates forum to find more info.

This has come upseveral times, so there's probably a more definite answer.

jchampliaud

5:56 pm on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I have both on my site but not on the same pages as per the AdSense and AdSonar TOS.

258cib

8:32 pm on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Is AdSonar offering up anything than FindWhat ads? Are they offering any services? Does Quigo "enables ads to be served from multiple sources, including the publishers' own listings" yet, as they have advertised? That could be cool.

I'm also interested in the feature that "empowers publishers to define themes and keywords to enhance relevancy results." Anyone seen that?

Or, is it just, replace this AdSense script with AdSonar script? If so, why would you do that?

leila222

8:56 pm on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Hello ,

thank you for the reply. well how do you think , which of both is better?

UKFord

9:40 pm on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Adsonar by a mile from what a mate of mine said. A) they actually communicate with you, unlike google, and B) They don't sit on your money to get some extra interest themselves. He says.

europeforvisitors

10:55 pm on Feb 6, 2004 (gmt 0)



Adsonar by a mile from what a mate of mine said. A) they actually communicate with you, unlike google, and B) They don't sit on your money to get some extra interest themselves. He says.

Those are pretty soft reasons to pick one network over the other. The more important considerations are:

1) Availability of targeted ads for your pages.

2) What you earn (as measured in effective CPM and bottom-line revenue).

At this point, I've heard that (in my sector at least) most AdSonar ads are fairly generic. That stands to reason since it's a new ad network, but it means I'll wait until AdSonar has matured before I take a serious look at it. I'm making too much from AdSense to beta-test a rival product.

Visit Thailand

1:34 am on Feb 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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A) they actually communicate with you, unlike google, and B) They don't sit on your money to get some extra interest themselves. He says.

Actually G does communicate very well ideed, and I am extremely surprised by the speed with which they do so. As for the money, every company sits on payouts for as long as they can, that is simply business. I am not saying G does that but I have never had a reason to complain over the timings of my payments I am impressed by it.

AdSonar has only been in Beta testing for a little while so surely such a general comment cannot be valid.

258cib

2:50 pm on Feb 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I'm interested in using Quigo's AdSonar to sell from my own directories, especially archives and yellow pages, using their feature that "enables ads to be served from multiple sources, including the publishers' own listings."

If they have some worthwhile ads that come along with that, good. But I can't see them beating Google's AdSense.

I don't understand why they don't offer contextual matching on Google's ads. Google would have to play along, and I hear there could be "abuse" of everyone skewing their matching to the high dollar categories. I'm having a little trouble getting my head around that being a big problem.

ncw164x

3:21 pm on Feb 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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>>Adsonar by a mile from what a mate of mine said.
Well he must be right then or you need to change your circle of friends

>>they actually communicate with you, unlike google
Can't agree with this one either google have responded to all of my emails very fast indeed

>>They don't sit on your money to get some extra interest themselves
well well well here we go again, they are sending cheque worldwide and folks are up in arms when it is 2 weeks late, for goodness sake don't give up your full time day job cos believe me you will wait a lot longer than two weeks over the stated time to be paid.

>> Solution to having to wait for you adsense cheque
Take the adsense code off your site, it's that simple

ncw164x

cornwall

4:58 pm on Feb 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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>>Can i have AdSense and Adsonar on one and same site?

I have been away on holiday for the last 3 weeks, but there was a thread during that period on how to technically serve up AdSonar as the fall back on Adsense, without breaking the TOS of either.

For the life of me I cannot find that thread. Was it pulled for some reason, or can someone post the link.