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I suppose that Fark is not a good site to have targeted ads displayed......what if Adsencebot found a Boobies link!
I have everything from terrorist news - to tabloid news, and Adsense is not capable (or willing) to place anything other than 95% charity ads.
Unless you're running the Disney Channel, Google isn't interested in news. For example, people die in terrorist attacks, women are assaulted in tabloid news, people are shot and killed in daily news, and political news is filled with scandal - all of which Adsense doesn't like.
Combined with the lack of design flexability (color, width, and font size) and the vastly under-reporting of impressions (yesterday I had 37,149 impressions on 1 site and Adsense reported 16,077) - I'm dropping Adsense completely from the news side of my business.
I'll put it on a few of the smaller, more targeted sites, and leave the high-traffic sites to conventional advertising where it is better understood.
But they work great on many other pages!
-- especially happy ones :)
I doubt that many other automatic ad servers could "understand" these pages better than google from just scraping them, so for me its more about thinking carefully where i put it, rather than blaming the ad server.
Differneces between impressions reported by Google and your own stats can be due to
1. People using broswers that do not support iframes
2. People with js turned off
3. Public service ads (these are not counted many people beleive)
4. Page accesses from robots or the like where the adsense js code is not actually loaded as they are only retreiving headers, email addresses, etc. etc.,
You certainly shed some light on my Adsense ordeal. I know there are plenty of non-news sites out there for Google to make this program work, I just need to focus on better matching it to the type of content it likes.
And with the right promotional message, it may still work for news...
"Make Money by Adding Google Adsense
To Your 'Happy News' Website!"
:)
PS: What a wonderful world we would live in, if all the news were 'happy' news.....
Hehe netguy,, what a great thought with all the bad things going on right now. Actually i think there is a web site somewhere, (and quote famous too i think), dedicated to publishing just happy news.. Great way to your day off to a positive start :)
So you reckon that Google is reporting half the impressions that you reckon you put out.
Is this because you do not put AdSense on some of the pages you put out, because Google are putting Public Service ads on and hence not counting, because Google are discounting a lot of impressions (other peoples spiders, etc)....
And anyone else have a feel for the % of impressions put out that they think Google is actually reporting.
"or example, people die in terrorist attacks, women are assaulted in tabloid news, people are shot and killed in daily news, and political news is filled with scandal "
Sounds grim in Arizona - Cornwall is nothing like as exciting
As far as the 'bad' news, we try to report on a little larger area than just Arizona. :) But it sounds like you must live in paradise - maybe its time for me to find a nicer (and cooler) environment....
I still have to do a full analysis (for technical reasons I do the full months analysis about a week into the following month, so I won't do July's for another week)...
.. but my impression is that 50% seems to be about par for the course. Which surprises me as my log files always under record impressions (caching etc there is a discussion here [webmasterworld.com...] for anyone interested in why)
As I understand it, I should still get the credit for impressions served by, say, the AOL cache, and any resulting clicks. These do not show up on my log files, but should on Google impressions.
So for every 100 impressions my log files show, I (probably) actually serve 150, and Google shows 50 :o
Anybody care to comment on the soundness (or otherwise) of the logic
