Survey: "Advertise on this site" or not?

[GoldenHammer]

How many of you have this feature on? or off? for what reason?

[sirkei]

Not for me. I would love to hear others who have it turned on though.

[Visit Thailand]

It is on by default, but I have not ever seen one link. Perhaps it is only available in certain countries but that is not what I understood from the pages I read.

[Visi]

Off...looks terrible in imbedded ads. Would leave it on leader boards but all or none option.

[calman]

Off - do not have enough information about how it works.

[GoldenHammer]

This is quoted from the AS page [google.com]:

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Gain new advertisers directly from your webpages

Your content is valuable. And starting within the next two weeks, advertisers will be able to bid for placement on your site right from your web pages. With Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, a new feature of AdSense, your AdSense ad units will display an 'Advertise on this site' link that takes interested advertisers to a page which you can tailor for your business. On this page they can see your details about your site and the Google AdWords program. Advertisers who sign up for AdWords through this landing page will create an ad automatically targeted to your site, and your site alone. And more advertisers competing to display ads on your site means more revenue for you.
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[thegreatpretender]

Off. I have yet to hear feed back about this feature.

[buckworks]

I turned it off.

One thing I didn't like about it was that we're stuck with the same landing page for all of our sites.

[icedowl]

Off.

[david_uk]

Off

No reporting facility available. I'd like to see it work, but without reports available it's a dead duck as far as I'm concerned.

Also, I don't want to p**s off advertisers by allowing them to advertise one moment and pulling the plug the next due to poor performance. If it's anything like the existing cpm ads, then no thanks anyway.

[moTi]

off (although i think it's a good idea).

reasons:

- no unique landing page per site

- no reporting for cpm/site targeting ads

[nathanso]

Off. I don't need my direct advertisers jumping ship, and G, I don't at all appreciate this feature defaulting to 'on'.

[Visit Thailand]

no unique landing page per site

I still find it amazing that G did not think of this problem before they launched.

Hopefully they will fix it soon.

[Hobbs]

Off too
ain't anyone here gonna byte the bull'et for the greater good and come tell us all about it?

[Nikke]

Off

The reason is mainly that I run AdSense on so many different sites with totally different topics.

I would like to turn it on for some of these, provided I could create a seperate landing page.

[garyr_h]

Hmmm... are you guys & gals sure that the default is on? It appears to be so, but I never (or know of anyone) who actually received the 'advertise on this site' link before filling in the rest of the info.

I have it on however. Not sure if I have any signups or not or even know if we will be told.. so I can't really say how it has been.

[kartiksh]

On. So far a bit increase in revenue. But not sure as of now whether it actually helps or not.

[danny]

I turned it off after I saw what it looked like.

I mostly use borderless leaderboards in DIVs with top and right borders, a scheme which relies on the Ads by Google being where it is and there not being any text in the other corner.

If I could turn it on for just some formats I might leave it on my skyscrapers.

[kempozone]

Why does it still show on my sites even when I opted out? Is there something I'm not doing correctly?

kz

[sallam]

on
Its great for forums, where members hardly ever click. CPM ads turns impressions into revenue automatically. What I did was adding 2 skyscrapers at the side, where its less likely to be clicked, but rather to make way for cpm ads. Google started serving contextual ads in them, but it started to adjust, I guess when it found that its making little clicks, CPM ads started to show there instead. Its a few days, but already becoming in my earning's third position (next to adlink bar and top banner).

[Sweet Cognac]

We haven't done anything, so if it defaults to on, then it's on for us. But we have yet to see any of of the links on our pages.

Strange thing is, we had a major company send us an email Friday wanting to know how to get their ads in the Adsense block on our site.

Anyway we emailed him back a link to the Adwords sign up page. It would be nice to have this company advertise on our site, but he may find Adwords too difficult to figure out or mess with.

I guess we could have set up that new referral button, but it would have sounded so stupid to say, "Go to this page and click on this button." lol

Having this company as a direct advertiser would be much more awesome.

[ann]

off

Not sure if it is about cpm ads which I do NOT want.