AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Accounts by June 1st

[Freddy81]

They told me my account will be disabled at 1st June, and also added that I'll receive payment for all outstanding earnings in accordance with the standard AdSense payment schedule.

For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?

[Avo19]

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
Sun-tzu
Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)

What do they teach you guys at school? :)

[spaceylacie]

I didn't complete school, so I don't know what they teach. I quit school at age 15, that was 20 years ago, now I only know how to do "cute" little hobbyist type things.

[Scurramunga]

What do they teach you guys at school?

They taught me the skills for my current profession. This in turn has enpowered me to set up useful authorititave websites that drive organic traffic to my online products as well as high converting traffic to my adsense ads.

[edited by: Scurramunga at 3:20 am (utc) on May 22, 2007]

[dibbern2]

Sailor -I hope you've reason still to be here in June. Your comments have always been worth reading.

Did everyone miss Ken_b's observation? That's what we should be talking about.

Collateral damage.

[Khensu]

What do they teach you guys at school? :) :):)

Can't wait to see how this all shakes out!

Damon, I thought you were in the UK? France now?

[Marcia]

I think there are people who have what could be considered MFA (not scraper) sites who weren't really aware that that's what they were doing.

[zett]

I think this is really about providing positive feedback in writing to Google. I guess the good people over at The Plex check for reactions. They feel for the pulse of their patient. They made a life-prolonging operation, a treatment that never happenend before, and now they are looking after their patient. They are monitoring every single bit of it. They will read here. And elsewhere. They will gather the feedback and compile an executive summary.

So, I think -along with many others- that this move was:

1- long overdue. Should have done months before.
2- a strategically good move to protect future growth of the Adsense/Adwords product.
3- a good move to regain confidence in the product, both from advertisers and publishers.
4- a good preparation for improvements that may come from competitors (YPN, MS, others).

The Google management deserves applause and standing ovations for this. Well done!

[edited by: martinibuster at 6:03 am (utc) on May 22, 2007]
[edit reason] TOS# 24 [/edit]

[Januuski]

So, I think -along with many others- that this move was:

This move was: VERY LATE MOVE

I guess they would do better if they would give publishers the right tools to filter/approve advertisers. For whatever (wrong) reason they are just giving tools to advertisers but no tools for publishers.

If we had these tools available all these spammers would already be out of business because most publishers would filter them.

How can one filter per account with 200 domains limit can work for larger publishers? (or any publisher) I have 7 larger websites and this filter does not even hold all the MFA for one site.

Just give advertisers the tools to pick and choose and give the same tools to publishers and you will have natural and healthy network.

Advertisers will pick high quality websites and publishers would approve high quality ads. Very Simple.

[Green_Grass]

well, I went out for a 3 day holiday into the hills without internet and come back to this thread. It gave me a panic attack.

I have adSense on all my sites. I drive traffic (partly) thru. adWords.

Adsense partly defers my advertising costs for my e-commerce site which is in infancy.

I use adWords to drive traffic to my other content rich websites. I am slowly getting free incoming links ( slow process). Apx 40% add my sites to favorites. And around 20/30% are repeat visitors.

There is an element of arbitraging involved. Has to be if I am using both adwords and adsense. There is no escape. I am not making a 'profit' everyday. Sometimes it is positive, sometimes negative. I am happy to get the visitors and the links and the repeat visitors.

CTR ranges from 3% to 30% on various channels. I hope I am not banned. I hope G considers the fact that I have so many repeat visitors, which says something about my sites.. maybe.. I really hope the algo is complex enough to understand this fact.

Without adwords, my sites in infancy, would get little traffic.

I have my fingers crossed.

[koan]

There is an element of arbitraging involved. Has to be if I am using both adwords and adsense.

I wouldn't worry one bit. The whole deal is about MFA sites that are doing arbitrage. MFA sites are, by definition, sites that do not provide any real content (I do not count scraping as content) where the main goal is to direct users to click on ads above anything else.