Adsense publisher quality?

approving of sites automatically?

[cicru]

I have an old site which is horrible, never got round to fix. It is picture based and almost no text at all. So I thought of starting a very dear friend in adsense. I was sure that this site will not be accepted and that would motivate him to start improving. but he got the

WELCOME TO ADSENSE

email.

I would not even link to this site if they paid me. If this is the adsense policy then in the long term serious publishers will suffer.

[webnoob]

yeah it's sad.. maybe google doesn't care anymore and only cares about getting more publishers to generate more $$

[cicru]

But this will be adsense own demise in the end.

If yahoo plays it's cards right Adsense is gone in a year. As an adwords advertiser myself I have stoped the content advertising. I have money to spend on advertising but not to waste!

[Sobriquet]

Well.. think of the other sire of it...

a site that you consider a waste may have sometime that someone somewhere is in lookout for.....

we cant always be 100% right in our observations

[lammert]

As an AdWords advertiser, I often check the referer links to see which sites display my ads. I must admit that there are quite a lot of garbage websites around, but on most sites, the theme of my ads matches the theme of the pages where those ads are displayed. Therefore I keep the content network switched on, because a visitor is a visitor, regardless of the previous site he has visited.

As a regular surfer I would like to see the quality of those sites improved, but as an AdWords advertiser I don't mind too much. If the traffic from those garbage sites is targetted, it is worth the money.