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Says I may be filtering too many advertisers.
Sounds like Google is desperate. It wants to water down the Kool-Aid. What possessed a Google executive to order automated "advice"?! If this cheesy little exercise doesn't trick us, the next email will read: "You didn't listen to our MFA AutoAdvisor (TM) designed by out top PhDs. We have decided to reduce your Competitive Ad Filter to 100. Have a good day."
p/g
Sounds like Google is desperate. It wants to water down the Kool-Aid. What possessed a Google executive to order automated "advice"?! If this cheesy little exercise doesn't trick us, the next email will read: "You didn't listen to our MFA AutoAdvisor (TM) designed by out top PhDs. We have decided to reduce your Competitive Ad Filter to 100. Have a good day."
LOL, maybe some of their big MFA and arbitrage advertisers have been complaining. This bit of optimization "advice" may end up helping them.
"money, money, money, fill me more", says google.
You think google would take a hard look at who we are all filtering.
You may find that for every savy Adsense publisher, such as yourself, there are 10,000 or more naive publishers quite happy to innocently host dodgy advertisers.
Matt
I cleared out my competitive filter yesterday and today the April report still is suggesting I might remove some URL's from my filter.
Maybe I'll get new advice in about 27 days on May 1.
FarmBoy
If I can do that with my BASIC knowledge from 1982, then apparently, little thought went into this "tool".
OTOH, maybe they want to open a new communication channel to us? Something that is better, more direct, more efficient, perhaps less annoying than, er, e-mail. Just imagine what you can do with such a unique mailbox! Receive messages from Google and (possibly, potentially) also send messages to Google! Somehow it looks to me like a bad copy of the eBay mailbox. Never understood the value of that anyway. Maybe here it's the same? Some hidden diamond in the Adsense control panel?
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It's as if Google regards us as preschoolers who need to be hand-held into this "adsense thing."
Please, good and helpful advice is one thing, but this kind of 'advice' is clearly only going to benefit google (and not our end-users), and it's fairly insulting to any respectable publisher.
I too feel I should see following tip:
"We think you must filter best5.top10.com sites to get the best relevant ads on your site"
If you've logged in to your account today, you've probably noticed the new 'Recent messages' section in your AdSense account. We're happy to let you know that this is your personal inbox where we'll send you customized optimization tips. More specifically, our system will automatically analyze your account and ad settings. Based on these findings, you'll receive a notification each month in your AdSense account if there are changes you can make to improve your overall AdSense performance.
here is the link [groups.google.com...]
We have adsense on some sites and we use adwords for our ecommerce sites. We are part of the pay per action beta group as well. Last night when I was starting a pay per action campaign I had to fill out a section "message to advertisers"
So I imagine that this is not just for optimization tips, its also for pay per action. Here was the google message:
"The terms and phrases in this ad group will be used to help website publishers find advertisers that they want to display on their websites. If a website publisher chooses to automatically match pay-per-action ads to their site, these terms and phrases will be used to match your ads to the contents of potential websites."
So keep a watch on this message system because you might see some additional messages come in. It looks like adsensers will either choose to automatically accept pay per action or review and approve individual.
The whole thing could just be a test of a new account messaging system.
The exact same thought did cross my mind as I thought that the message appeared to the same prepackaged stuff that one would find on Googles site anyway.
However the message did mention something about an automatic audit and made promise more tips in future.
Maybe the message should have just read "testing 1.2,3
I saw this on the Referral beta thing..FAQ
"Can I use search engine marketing to promote my referrals campaign?
You may not use search engine marketing to purchase traffic for the specific and sole purpose of generating conversions, unless you have the express permission of the advertiser. "
I note, you may be using adWords to generate traffic for the referral product. I don't think this is currently allowed. They seem to want only organic traffic. I also use adWords for part of my traffic and was wondering if , we should sign up for the beta?
Regards..
Its strange on the adwords side, when I advertise on the pay per action it seems as if its targeted just for publishers and not google main. We are already getting impression, but the keywords we picked out are not showing on google main. So this is telling me that the pay per action is only showing on a handful of publishers pages. So I imagine publishers will be able to pick and choose.
We have a few eccomerce sites that sell larger transactions $1000 plus per customer, so the payout to the publishers that we are offering is 3 times the amount we pay in pay per click.
Right now in the beta, we can not target sites like you can on the pay per click side. I think this has to do with Pay per action beta publishers.
Are there any pay per action publishers out there or a place where publishers can sign up for pay per action?
You may be filtering ads that monetize well on your site.
If I am filtering them, presumably they don't show up on my site. And if they don't show up, how can Google possibly know that they monetize well on my site?
Ann
my question is: how do you delete the tips and/or make it go away...tried everything.
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