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How to "dodge" Google AdSense TOS

Indirect values

         

kaijohannkursch

10:07 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Just wondering if we could post information about our AdSense experience without breaking the TOS.

Would it be possible to post things like...

EPM (Earning Per Thousand = 1000 x Earning / Impressions)? It gives no direct information about earning, ctr or clicks...

EPC (Earning Per Clic = Earning / Clicks)?

Impressions Per Visitor (Impressions / Visitors)?

Clicks Per Visitor (Clicks / Visitors)?

Earning Per Visitor (Earning / Visitors)?

Would posting ANY of this values break the TOS? None? All?

Shak

10:08 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



why

DaveN

10:08 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Yes I think any of them, post a few as a tester ;)

8 Confidentiality. snippet - "other statistics relating to Site performance"

DaveN

Sense_able

10:21 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Why risk your account......

It is well known that googleguy drops by..... And by all accounts some of the senior members here are pretty good at working out our websites.

I do not know how they do it sometimes as there is little or no clues in some of our user names.

Having said all that there seems to be a lot of breaching of the TOS at the moment
[google.com ]

kaijohannkursch

10:23 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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So you think Google is SO strict with that business... It's not only forbidden to publish impressions, ctr or clicks but also "indirect" values which do not give clear information...

It has been discussed before that surely Google is doing this way to avoid competence to reach AdSense levels, but Google is also avoiding us to simply COMPARE with another programs... It does not make sense... why are they afraid? (as I think AdSense is by far the best revenue program)

Marcia

10:34 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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>>Google is also avoiding us to simply COMPARE with another programs... It does not make sense...

Does Gimbel's tell Macy's [google.com]?

EliteWeb

11:27 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Because I couldn't see the info it got me to sign up. I wanted to see for myself. And I placed it on my site, and a few people clicked, I said wow.

Now I let it sit there, see they got ya to get signed up by wondering and not knowing and I already went through the steps to put it online so until something better comes around Im serving their ads :P

John_Shaw

11:49 pm on Sep 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Having said all that there seems to be a lot of breaching of the TOS at the moment
[google.com...]

Not only are there search results for sites with info about adsense, but there are Adwords ads for sites with info about adsense. I notice that some of these sites by adsense experts do not have adsense on them.