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I've never seen them running before. Has this ever happened before?
[edited by: justinf at 10:49 pm (utc) on Aug. 17, 2004]
[edited by: Jenstar at 10:27 pm (utc) on Aug. 18, 2004]
[edit reason] TOS # 24, Leave the moderation to the moderators :) [/edit]
...constant repeat visitors...
Perhaps that's the problem? We don't run adsense on sites with heavy repeat traffic, not for any particular reason but because we don't have too many of those types.
I would assume that people become banner blind with your adsense ads and that there isn't much fresh rotation of ads in small niches.
Or, perhaps you may need to tune your postioning/palette if high CTR is a high priority. Just remember that you may easily offend those repeat visitors.
Rates of 30-50% are very possible but I guess it just takes the right (wrong) type of site, and the correct layout.
aaah - the holy grail.
on the one hand, being a niche site gets those key word terms and thus traffic to your site, but on the other hand, being a mass market site means you've got to compete with the established players, and there's no guarantee you'll get any traffic if your site is too general (or dealing with a very popular topic area)
very tough nut to crack. if you've cracked it - well done.
Most people are talking AdSense, but what you're saying sounds more like Adwords if your CTR is related to a number of orders somehow...
I don't think it's any big deal if the system is off-line for a bit. Banks take their systems off, PayPal goes down for maintenance - it's nothing unusual. It was just darn scary with this because it first hits with wondering if anything is wrong with the account.
They should approve the checks early to make up for the scare, though.
We have asked for this before, and I will continue to ask for it as long as it isn't implemented. Good customer service goes a long, long way. I expect lousy service from fly-by-night companies, but not from large, established ones.
it just happened at the wrong time.
That shows interest, it wouldn't exactly incur the wrath of Wall St.
When banks go offline for maintenance, there is usually a "We are offline for maintenance" message. In addition, when my bank goes offline, I don't lose money.
Google isn't a bank. Good thing, too, or a lot of publishers would be asking for "payday loans" to tide them over until their next months' checks. :-)
I don't think we are asking for much by asking a large company to spend 5 seconds of their time to either post a "sorry, we are down" message or blast out an email.
Commission Junction posts a message before scheduled maintenance (no e-mail, though). I'm not sure what CJ does when unscheduled problems occur. My other affiliate programs don't bother to warn of downtime, probably because outages usually don't last long.
I personally don't think this is a big deal. If Google's accounts page is down for an hour or two, or if AdSense is temporarily serving PSAs, anybody who's been using the Web for more than three weeks should know enough to try again later.
Good customer service goes a long, long way. I expect lousy service from fly-by-night companies, but not from large, established ones.
As much as I hate to get technical, I feel compelled to point out that we aren't Google's customers--Google is our customer. Maybe we should be sending e-mails or posting messages for Google whenever we have server problems or take a site down for maintenance. :-)
Anyone else with the problem?
