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1. I'd like to be able to be exempt from getting PSA's. My site gets about 20,000- 25,000 PSA's a day because google can't determine context. Instead of getting PSA's i'd like to see site default ads. PSA's only make sence on large newspaper sites, entertainment etc. When your dealing with something like a travel site your not going to be talking about killing someone and stuffing them in a suite case. (WSJ example)
2. Establishment of a second tier of publishers, sites earning in excess of 5k or 10k a month should be allowed to run 2 adsense banners per page and recieve a greater share of the higher paying ads. One would assume that fraud per 1000 clicks is far lower on a site doing 50,000 clicks a month then on 50 sites doing 1000 clicks a month. I wouldn't be surprised if the new discounting system already addressed that.
3. Direct deposit, wire transfer etc...
They wouldn't be Adsense ads, but surely you can come up with a decent alternative for yourself so that they don't show any PSAs. Fastclick seems to work well for me for that.
Payment option by PayPal - pppplease!
Jer
For example one of my sites is photography related... I keep getting ads for storm shutters and its getting wearisome. I have a policy of not altering the content for SEO so I'm having to just live with it.
channel keyword categories:
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CATEGORIES. Allow a webmaster to assign a high level category to a channel. This would have to be reviewed and approved by a googlesapien. This category/keyword would weight the targeting algo.
This way we can decide the minimum value we think it is worth having our visitors click away from our site.
2. Unlimited Channels or per page stats. Google ought to have a list of all the pages running adsense, Google can have a list of pages with checkboxes and you check off what pages you want in a certain channel or something like this.
3. Ability to block ads on a per page basis OR Google can provide a list of possible ads per page and you rank them in order of what you would most like to see on a page and then Google can take that into account when they serve ads. Somehting like a rank of 5 means Great Ad, 0 means ad blocked. Or even we get to chose 2 of the 4 shown ads according to how we rank the ads and Google choses the other two. I would really like to see what ads are shown per page without actually visiting the page. I can't know what someone from Germany would see on my site because I don't live in Germany and Google uses geotargetting. ** I just find that sometimes the ads are relevent but on the wrong page like a blue widget ad on a red widget page and I would like to block ads per page.
4. Unlimited ad blocking.
5. Direct Deposit/Paypal
6. If there are no ads availiable, we should be able to choose theme ads and keywords, for example, Health, Electronics, Camera, TV, etc.. Actually we should be able to choose this anyways even if there are ads available as is the way with a certain other program in beta right now. Google can just check your keywords to what it thinks is on the page to make sure the keywords are relevent.
7. Get rid of those ugly PSA's
8. Reasons why PSA ads show up on a per page basis. Maybe something like PSA's shown because of keyword "widget" found.
9. One thing that i found some affiliate programs have is a average earnings per click. It was nice to see I could use this to see how well my affiliate programs performed compared to my channels with Google. But it took a little time to calculate this by hand.
higher than $0.1 EPC
Que? They come in all sizes - from a third of that to several $ per click. You must be publishing in a niche with low priced clicks.
Speaking from the Adwords side of the coin, I know a single mildly competitive niche has terms whose ads range from 5c through $15 per click. If you published in this niche, you'd get very polarised views of Adsense EPC depending on which ad was shown.
2. Some way to help the bot realise what my pages are / are not about and improve targetting
3. A way to specify my IP address so that I don't have to worry that I might accidentally click on an ad
I would like to set a minimum threshold for click $ value. So if I set my minimum of $0.10, that means that I do not want to show any ads that would give me less than 10cents in earnings.
This way we can decide the minimum value we think it is worth having our visitors click away from our site.
Jino, that is absolutely the best suggestion I have heard for Adsense. I'm still waiting for direct deposit though.
Onya
Woz
ABSOLUTELY!. Due to their inability to figure out what the page about (and instead, decide that 3 words out of 1,000 is the theme), I am adding more and more urls to my block list, around 3-5 a day now. The more I add, the more come into the site. They just keep coming and coming and I can't get rid of them all!
ARGH!
If they can't give me unlimited url blocking, let me block entire themes like Real Estate = block; hotels and travel = block; dating = block.
6. If there are no ads availiable, we should be able to choose theme ads and keywords, for example, Health, Electronics, Camera, TV, etc.. Actually we should be able to choose this anyways even if there are ads available as is the way with a certain other program in beta right now. Google can just check your keywords to what it thinks is on the page to make sure the keywords are relevent.
I agree.
I still do not understand why I am getting German language ads in Thailand when I know there are plenty of ads in English available.
Kev
more than just the 200 URL block list, i'd like to be able to be presented with a "menu" of advertisers who buys keywords applicable to our sites. then i can check or uncheck those i want seen on our sites -- before these ads even run.
this may be tough as ads in some areas change from day to day (even within the day), but it would be useful to publishers. an autoselect feature may be able to lessen the need to login every hour of the day, while permanent blocking feature would allow the publisher to block all ads from an advertiser with one click of a button.
There's some ads that I don't want appearing on one site (stuff like ebay), but I don't mind them on a couple other sites.
2. Specify minimum EPC, per site or per channel (per page would be a bit hard I guess). A publisher with only a few 1000s focused unique visitors /day may not want to lose a visitor to a $0.05 EPC ad on his "real content" pages. Whereas another may choose to run any and every ad on his forums which could be receiving a million page-views/day.
3. Solve the problem with "junk chars" in non-latin character set ads.
Note: Many people ask for features which are related to not showing PSAs. RTFM please. Just specify a background colour to be used instead, or point it to your own ad, or even to your own adserver.
2. Wire transfer. Google is literally the ONLY company I deal with that doesn't pay electronically (and as others have mentioned, Paypal charges too much to receive money on business accounts). Already one check has gone missing.
I can only pray ASA reports back if any of these are going into effect, etc.
-Brandon
For example, you could sell blue widget books and don't mind ads for buying the blue widgets. However, even though the company that sells blue widgets is not your competitor, a visitor who is interested in blue widget books could leave your site through adsense ads because they most definitely are also interested in blue widgets. You don't mind but you want to make sure that you make at least as much as if they were not to have left your site.
Currently you can only go by the average EPC so if that number is not high enough you have to just stop using Adsense completely or remove them from that page which is not real efficient because there are bound to be ads that do reach that threshold.
I would love this feature if it were added!
the option to open text-ads in a new window
the way Yahoo does it in its own SERPs, using a little double-box which is now well known to mean that clicking here will open new browser window for this URL.
Because, believe it or not, judging from my logs in a very slow site, users will often come back 10-15min later (having visited 1st ad site) and click on another ad.
ie on someone's hobby site about a punk rock group, I have observed adsense for "wedding bands" amongst ads for more contextually accurate adverts.
But now imagine that the advertiser tries to block site A, B and C that are off topic, but he doesn't realize there is another whole group of "wedding band" adveerts (due to geotargeting for example) that are filling the spaces that A, B & C left open.
What would be great if an owner could (just like an adwords campaign) type in -weddings etc.
that would probably improve targeting immensely.
A 5 or 10% referral program would be oustanding as well.
