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I am curious in getting your sense/opinions of adsense versus other web-ad services (ie - Quigo...etc.) on several guidlines...
-ease of use.
-acceptance restrictions
-which pays on-time.
-which pays more fairly for your content.
-and any other thoughts, opinions.
thanks.
I have heard about BrightAds which kanoodle launched last week for content sites. Not sure how it perform since I have not tried them.
What will be the EPC for adhe**us?
1) The green keyword/links are a bit distracting to readers
2) The IntelliTXT "tool tip" ads block the text on the page, and the lag while waiting for an ad to disappear is annoying (at least to me).
3) A poorly matched ad in body text is more glaring than a poorly matched ad in a banner, leaderboard, or skyscraper.
BTW, I'm not bothered by the arguments (made by some critics and journalists) that IntelliTXT blurs the distinctions between advertising and editorial. I just don't think that's the case, since the links are clearly different from normal links and the text ads are clearly labeled as sponsored links. My only quibble with IntelliTXT is the user-annoyance factor.
Surely fraudulent clicks should be contained and punished. What I was tal about is the content restrictions. I nkow USA is a very religious country, but there are some things in the forbidden list that amazes me (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies):
1- Profanity: what is this, google had made a business partnership with Vatican? Why should google care about religious matters?
2- Hacker content: how they determine that? most time I'm worried about having a virus or spyware in my computer I find useful information on pages about hackerism and net security.
3- Porn: what has google against people naked? Is it a crime being naked?
4- Chance games: again, is it google business if the webmaster or the visitors are interested in knowing about chance games? no.
5- Drug related equipment: what is this? if I talk about pipes will my account be cancelled. I even heard about proihibition against alcohol related pages.
So, from the 11 items, I found 5 to be problematic. I must say that my site had none of these 11 items google state as forbidden. But they considered it a not-familiar content, so they denied it at first. And all my site has is plain litteratura, some from long dead authors (www.fonjic.com.br -> it is in portuguese, so I guess you can't read it...)
Perhaps this is a cultural problem, as EUA is a religious country and finds things likes swearing and naked people to be offensive. Well, but my readers and advertisers aren't from EUA, so I see no point in applying the EUA morality in all over the world.
Adh*arus only states as forbidden illegal activities and racial biggotry. And that's it. I never noticed how conservative google guidelines were untill I joined Adhe*rus. And they have ads similar to adsense, but they started this business long before google did, so I guess that's why we can't write #*$! here. You see?
thx.
Remember, Google and its advertisers have rights, too. Why should they be required to run ads on pages that they find objectionable for commercial (or any other) reasons?
We're getting a bit off-topic here, so I'll wrap up by saying that the ability to make choices--i.e., to be selective--is a good thing not just for publishers, but also for ad networks and advertisers.
I would not recommend adhersus they have a very low inventory of ads and very low payout. :-(
that is one of the reasons that competitors will struggle against Adsense. To me, is it worth it to try a new company for one/perhaps two months, to see if the inventory picks up. I can easily give them 10% of my pages (about 50 pages) and not see a huge/unmanageable drop in my earnings. If the company doesn't pick up well you (and many others) have given them "their shot". For example Qui*o/Adso*ar were quite poor to begin with for me. But recently I have been getting some pretty good individual click throughs(travel site) from some pretty big names in the travel industry and yes I have received a cheque without living in everyday fear of getting "booted" from their programme..
For example Qui*o/Adso*ar were quite poor to begin with for me. But recently I have been getting some pretty good individual click throughs(travel site) from some pretty big names in the travel industry and yes I have received a cheque without living in everyday fear of getting "booted" from their programme..
I tried Adso*ar, but they just don't the depth and breadth of advertisers that AdSense does. As a result, a page that might receive a highly targeted ad with AdSense gets an Orbitz ad with Adso*ar. So if, say, you've got a page about narrowboat rentals in England (a topic that's obviously pretty specialized), you're more likely to get Orbitz ads for English hotels or something else that's fairly generic if you're using AdSo*ar or another AdSense competitor.
I think the real opportunity for AdSense rivals is in market niches, especially if an OEM supplier comes along to supply a turnkey solution. Take travel: Every travel agency, hotel, etc. uses computers for reservations, so think of the potential market that GDS vendors would have if they could piggyback an AdSense-like advertising program on their existing services to subscribers.
a couple months ago i tried to start a thread similar to this where i mentioned possible competitors for adsense and asked for feedback as to what options look good ... and the thread was deleted ... twice.
unless someone is blatantly trying to use this board to promote their brand/company i think we should be allowed to mention the competition and discuss options
