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Is it okay now to share daily earnings and impressions with someone else?
(can someone tell me the same thing for YPN?)
Thanks!
Can I fudge my numbers a bit and reveal that?
say I made $100 yesterday, plus or minus 10%? (when I actually made, say, $90). Strictly speaking, those numbers are not my real adsense numbers, tho ethically it may be a gray line?
Ok, I'm not seeking validation to commiting TOS infraction. I'll figure it out myself wether that's acceptable or not. :) But any comments on that line of thought would be interesting to hear about as a way of talking to someone else about ballpark figures.
Can I fudge my numbers a bit and reveal that?
Why not just honor the contract terms that you accepted when you joined AdSense?
Like if you told someone by blending the ads you increased your CTR by 50%, that would be an ok example. Saying your CTR was 1% and now it's 10% would be against the TOS from what I understand.
Impressions is a statistic that I don't think is unique to google adsense. You can get impressions from your server logs, or any of those free counter services (like Google Analytics ;), so it seems like it would be OK to share just general "impressions".
Impressions is a statistic that I don't think is unique to google adsense. You can get impressions from your server logs, or any of those free counter services (like Google Analytics ;), so it seems like it would be OK to share just general "impressions".
Impressions and page views aren't necessarily the same. It's legitimate to talk about page views as reported by your server logs or another source, but when you're talking about "impressions" from your AdSense atats, you're definitely violating the AdSense TOS.
Why not just honor the contract terms that you accepted when you joined AdSense?
I suppose an argument would be that perhaps as the defacto standard and leader in the contextual ads market, Google is akin to Microsoft, and can just about tell everyone here to bend over, and people would still take it.
But, I recall a thread here about this, and it's not my wish to get it started again, so...
...because you're a noble man, and sadly to say, but happy to admit, I'm not...? :) Different morals, that's all.
...because you're a noble man, and sadly to say, but happy to admit, I'm not...? :) Different morals, that's all.
It's not a matter of morals; it's a matter of common sense. If you're making money from Google, why mess with a good thing?
I guess because I feel its a 'law' that has no claws, and Google just wants to be evil and set down stupid rules.
So much in corporate America is set or forbidden for no apparent reason and is there only for the unlikelyhood of someone somehow finding a way to misuse the information and put a kink in the system, and then the company can come back and do something legal about it by saying "it's here in the TOS/contract".
But legal points aside, the bottom line is if I do it(talk about stats) is because adsense is _our_ business too, and I'd like to be able to talk about it.
Different morals
Or lack thereof
... I agree with your assertion of Google's ethical stance. ;)
I agree with your assertion of Google's ethical stance
Who said Google was ethical?
Anyone that lies about the need to speed up broadband with the evil Web Accelerator has jumped the ethical shark.
Doesn't mean you need to stoop to their level does it?
We'll just agree to disagree, while our insurgency talks in codes, like brazilian slaves learned martial arts in the guise of capoeira...
:)
