Almost November.

...time for the Google Gift discussion to start

[vincevincevince]

Christmas is coming - but what do you believe the threshold will be this year to obtain a Google Gift? Mine got 'lost in the post' last year and now seems the time to put in place a policy to avoid the same fate this year...

What top tips can you give to help with rising in the Google Gift eligability scale?

Hunterdown suggested a $1000/month cutoff here [webmasterworld.com] - but it doesn't seem consistant from other messages here...

Question two: What will the gift be this year?

[ashii]

I suggest Google send to those who missed it last year.

[trannack]

I think all people should get a pressy regardless of earnings - afterall everyone helps to put the coffers in Google bank account!

[Sense_able]

I had the radio 2 years ago but missed the gift last year. I have always averaged over 5k a month.

Who is going to send a gift to Google. After all it is the season of giving and receiving!

[trannack]

I could send adsense my adwords bill I guess! Shame you missed last years pressy - I really liked mine. What would be a really good Adsense xmas gift - submit your suggestions!

[Leonard0]

It should be something simple, then everyone could receive one.
I suggest a Google T-shirt, preferably fair-trade, oragnic cotton. With the inscription "Do no evil".

[Mohamed]

Laptop (Notebook).

[Paris]

This one's a bit of a no-brainer. If you follow the logic of the radio two years ago and the thumb drive kit last year, I'll bet a rubber chicken that we get a cheap, yet adequate, Google-branded webcam.

After all, the YouTube deal closes in December. Google Video is growing too. Why wouldn't it use the opportunity to gift something that will help populate those sites?

So you heard it here first.

* Hoping that if it's not a webcam that it's a Google-branded rubber chicken so I can still come through with my wager.

[quepao]

a 2000 sites filter list option would make us all happy. ;)

right?

[trannack]

Web-cam - mmmmmm. Thing is most of us have got all this stuff - web cams, headphones etc, etc. Afterall we are all pretty much Google dweebs - why wouldn't we have them. An innovative gift would be groovy. At the end of the day a gift is meant to be something you wouldn't normally buy yourself. Maybe they'll send us all a Google mini-fridge - as Adwords just doesn't seem able to get them in the post! :)

[Mohamed]

a 2000 sites filter list option would make us all happy.

and then run PSA :o

[miguelito]

a "your account has been suspended due to invalid clicks" letter, hand delivered in a laminated gold envelope ( preferably on the last working day before christmas so you have to wait until 2007 before complaining ;)

[OptiRex]

I wouldn't mind a bucketful of USB hubs if they've got any left, barring that Champagne would do nicely:-)

[Rainie]

I'd love getting the gift that they didn't send me last year. I can't imagine that I didn't qualify, but have no idea what the threshold is. Last year I heard of people receiving the gift who made less than I.

My radio broke from the year before. :-(

[ann]

Oh well,

Don't expect one. It's the thought that counts, not the gift.

Yeah, right.

Ann

[Bddmed]

Optirex, you can just forget about a gift. Too many stats stuck post.

Threshold: Have one, preferably more, wow I had a great day, or I made #*$!$ dollars this month, explicitly saying thank you Google.

Thank you Google I'm having a great month.

[loganz]

i wouldnt mind something simple, a t-shirt, a car window shade, or something neat and useful.

i havent used my toolkit last year, and the mouse never worked for me.

but i did get a google lavalamp not too long ago from google.. thanks =)

[Genuine1]

Lavalamp?

Did I miss one? Got radio/coloured lamp, got the wireless mouse and other stuff, no lavalamp! I want one!

[Bddmed]

A usb connected lavalamp illuminating 2000 filtered advertisers it is then?

[Genuine1]

I had to re read that! I thought you said 200...

[icedowl]

I'd be happy just to get a greeting card.

A t-shirt would be nice, a coffee mug would be very useful, and I'm sure I could find a use for any other item.

However, I'll probably get exactly what I expect -- nothing.

[Genuine1]

You sound a bit depressive! If you are good google will send you something! They never forgot me in the UK yet!

(edit) except the lavalamp...

(edit again...) I just realised what I need. I need a Google credit card and my money paid into a US dollar account offshore somewhere. Now that WOULD be a useful pressy!

[edited by: Genuine1 at 10:38 pm (utc) on Oct. 27, 2006]

[sailorjwd]

I'd like a life-size google blow up doll so I can return the favor.

[miguelito]

The entire contents of the amazon online catalogue

OR

A Blu-Ray HD-DVD dual compatible recorder that works

OR

A new bottom, mine has a hole in it ( yes i know you've heard it before )

[rbacal]

I'd like a life-size google blow up doll so I can return the favor.

A new bottom, mine has a hole in it

You two should get together, since you seem to have desires that complement each other.

...but...eeeeewwww...the images this conjures up, Sailor.

[icedowl]

On second thought (since I sounded depressive earlier), I do have a healthy wish list going on at Amazon. Now that would be sweet!

[Web_speed]

"a 2000 sites filter list option would make us all happy. ;) "

Naaaa.... "NO FREAKING SITE TARGETED CPM ADS" button would do.

[edited by: Web_speed at 6:51 am (utc) on Oct. 28, 2006]

[trannack]

I realllly want the lava lamp - even more than the mini fridge. How come you got a lava lamp, and did anyone else get one?

[HuhuFruFru]

A nice gift would be a EPC of 10 USD/per click for 60 minutes or so :)

[ChuckyG]

I got a lavalamp... it was for the video ads. I felt kind of bad about it, because I tried running the ads and they didn't work well on my site (revenue and technical reasons). I gave mine away to a site visitor. It wasn't google branded (to my knowledge, I never opened it). Just a lavalamp like the one you get at Spencer Gifts.

I could have sworn I got a red led flashlight three years ago from them, but maybe that was some other ad firm.