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By allowing users to show their earnings, they are counting on to be the most profitable PPC publisher engine, and will try to lure potential publishers by the earning potential opposing to the competition.
Your thoughts?
The "feel free to post your earnings" give psychological rewards to its publishers -- the high earning ones can have more solid bragging rights, the low earning ones can have something to aspire for, and the non-members will strive to join the program since others are earning good $$$ from it
By allowing users to show their earnings, they are counting on to be the most profitable PPC publisher engine ...
That may be part of it, but I think it's more likely they changed that rule to allow us report our income on our tax returns (and to our accountants, shareholders, wives, etc.) without breaking the TOS.
-- Roger
changed that rule to allow us report our income on our tax returns (and to our accountants, shareholders, wives, etc.) without breaking the TOS.
Hmmm ... I don't think any company in their right mind would prevent disclosure of the income a person received from them from the IRS. You don't hide from Uncle Sam
lol, bragging in business like most other things can lead to unfortunate, unthought of side effects - like someone else stealing your ideas.
... i haven't seen any serious adsense earners disclosing their earnings here nor do i expect to!
it wouldn't suprise me if all the programmes crank up their payment percentages for a bit as direct comparisons will doubtless be easy to make by any publisher that knows how to run proper tests - and i'd imagine most users here will know how to run tests.
Ah, competition might be a good thing. They may increase the percentage they give publishers, and/or introduce nice new features (note that they FINALLY fixed the publisher interface soon before this was announced)
changed that rule to allow us report our income on our tax returns (and to our accountants, shareholders, wives, etc.) without breaking the TOS.
I don't think any company in their right mind would prevent disclosure of the income a person received from them from the IRS.
allow us report our income on our tax returns (and to our accountants, shareholders, wives, etc.)
Nice to see all the honest Americans declaring their Adsense income:-)
Yep, I do know you have to, just glad I'm not there!
t wouldn't suprise me if all the programmes crank up their payment percentages for a bit
I think it's more likely that they'll play the money card selectively. For example, they might try to cherry-pick Google's network with offers of guaranteed CPMs to certain publishers (especially in lucrative sectors), which would provide fodder for case histories and generate buzz about how abcd.com or wxyz.com has defected from Google to Yahoo or MSN.
lol, bragging in business like most other things can lead to unfortunate, unthought of side effects - like someone else stealing your ideas. ... i haven't seen any serious adsense earners disclosing their earnings here nor do i expect to!
It's nice to have lesser restrictions on what you can and cannot divulge in the program. But with the changes, I can expect to see more of those "gurus" selling ebooks on how they made millions (if not hundreds of thousands) with Adsense -- with their long windy salesletter substantiated with "proof of income". Isn't that neat? :o)
Or if the publisher is part of Google's affiliate program, then they can surely entice more signups if the prospective publishers see what others are earning.
These are examples of "bragging rights" that I am talking about -- not necessarily coming here to WWW and saying I made ten thousand last month. Afterall, where's the ka-ching in that?
