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For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?
Of course, they'll have to sign up publishers. What will the pitch be?
"Making too much money on Adsense? Would you like to get pennies per click? Here at example.com, we believe if we take care of the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves.
"In a market niche without many advertisers? No worries, we can make sure none of those nasty little PSA notices appear on your site. We guarantee it. We are experts at filling the ad space trough.
"What's the catch? Because of our proprietary PenniesToDollars(TM) technology, we guarantee you'll never earn less than a penny a click. Of course you won't earn more than a penny either.
"A penny for you every 99 pennies for us. Please sign here."
My two cents,
p/g
[edited by: engine at 11:05 am (utc) on May 21, 2007]
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I think Google need to be careful what message they are sending out, there are lots of ppc affiliates on other networks who use adwords to drive traffic to really useful sites, not just ad pages. They do have ads on their pages but their ad placement is intelligent and conservative but quite rightly exists to make money. Search arbitrage has many incarnations and not all methods detract from user experience, I think this point sometimes gets lost. Adwords to Adsense pages are bad arbitrage and deserve a slap, I mean at least use a different network.
This may not be the best place to make the point but there are responsible ppc affiliates out there with real sites who would probably appreciate some clarity from Google on where things are going. Adsense in my view has for a long time damaged the reputation and integrity of responsible affiliates by placing them all in the same big box, yet there is great variety in arbitrage implementations, some very bad and some quite legitimate.
Anyone paying to get traffic to your site and have any type of ads is in the arbitrage business (or an argument can be made that you are).
For instance:
1) Paid links (or even requested links)
2) Paid directory entries
3) Hired an SEO consultant?
4) Any kind of radio/local ads/flyers
5) Paid for content?
Anyone have more for this list? Or, am I totally full of poopoo?
Just good content that existed well before there was a google posted in the spirit of sharing useful information.
Income has been three figures a day since 2003 and I have never modified or updated any site. Income is in fact slowly rising over this 4 year period.
All traffic is natural via good search placement due to strong incoming natural links. Thats all you need.
[edited by: Genuine1 at 1:31 pm (utc) on May 21, 2007]
Thats what I think the "Real" publishers should be worried about if you send any kind of adwords traffic to your site.
The big question are they looking at the page quality and/or if 100% of your traffic comes from Adwords?
What if you have a "Real" website and 100% of your traffic is Adwords.....are you going to get axed?
Or is it just the placement of the ads on the page.....most MFA I see have two adblocks in a row above the page fold...
I think I read one post above where someone got canned and they only had one ad block on their page....
heyday
Real content posted for the fun of sharing useful or interesting stuff gets traffic from all over the net fast.
"Unique content" as in some stuff you typed with a few keywords in it is thin, unwanted and needs to buy traffic since it wont fly on its own.
Its this stuff that pollutes 99% of the the web and that adsense/google/users want rid of from its system.
Not everybody can make an interesting site or actually has anything worthwhile to post! Publishing just like in the book/magazine world is tried by many but few are good enough to succeed! If you cant cut it dont blame google!
[edited by: Genuine1 at 1:56 pm (utc) on May 21, 2007]
They'll eventually have traffic from other places, but that's where they are in the development process. I don't see why that would make a website not "real."
And if its not they wont and you are in the wrong business at least as far as googles concerned!
[edited by: Genuine1 at 2:03 pm (utc) on May 21, 2007]
1. Adwords ---> Adsense arbitrage is fine.
2. People who click on an adwords ad should be provided with a good user experience.
So unless these policies have changed, without a public announcement, I'd conclude that 100% adwords traffic onto an adsense site is okay PROVIDED Google - by whatever measure they choose - thinks the user experience is good.
