The Icarus Project

[ASchmitt]

Ok, I don't know if it's allowed here? (if not, mod's please notify me by pm) I'm not gonna give urls or CPC and ECPM figures here... I'm just gonna present our global daily adsense revenue and the efforts we did and are gonna do to improve them.

The Project:

We've asked to 10 academic graduates to send us their thesis/final paper/etc. and the permission to publish them on the internet.
For now, I'm working 27/7 to rewrite them in SEO acceptable texts... meaning keyword density, appropriate page titles, providing quality inbound en outbound links...

We've coded a custom CMS, SEO compatible and we will experiment with positionning and layout of the adsense code.

As I'm not allowed to post the projecturl, so if there's any interest in statistics I will keep posting them here...

[humblebeginnings]

It's against Google TOS to display your Adsense statistics in public. But I guess if you don't give us exact numbers but only rough data Google won't mind. I am sure interested to see if this will work. But be careful with working 27/7, a day only has 24 hours;-)

[DrDoc]

Perhaps 27/7 refers to the 7th day of the 27th month? :)

[ASchmitt]

Im not gonna give exact numbers since indeed it's against google TOS, but I can give percentages... aha! ASchmitt 1 - Google 0 ;)

[frox]

but I can give percentages

ahem ...

Google Confidential Information" includes without limitation: ... (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Site performance

yuo anyway fall under the "other statistics"

This said, everybody here speaks of almost anything, while strictly speaking:

You may accurately disclose the amount of Google’s gross payments to You pursuant to the Program

which imho means that you can only say "I have been paid $nnn for the month of august"