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For me there is no question that I will dump Adsense if revenues do not pick up. Every cent earned from G ads on my sites is testimony to their quality - I therfore take it as a real insult to be offered half what they are worth.
Personally I will leave it until the middle of next week after which I will comment out my ads and start looking for alternative revenue.
Anyway, I'd be intersted to hear if other people are sonsidering taking similar action.
A list of AdSense alternatives with comments would be great.
You can sometimes find stuff like that floating around in the Advertising Sales and Affiliates Forum [webmasterworld.com] here at WW.
For example, there are a few comments about a some other programs in the thread called What are Some Alternatives to AdSense? [webmasterworld.com]
How do I know? Because that's how I feel and react to those kind of sites.
Ann
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I am not trying to say Google owes me anything. I have been well paid and could buy some big ticket items I would never had been able to sfford before Google.
So, yes, like everyone else I am hoping this thing will turn around for all of us.
AdLinks remain to see what happens.
Honestly, and I've been married twice, this is worse than either divorce, it's incomprehensible!
At least both my ex's and I get on well together and still do, this is simply an absolute wall of silence...kids' tantrums, nothing more, nothing less...and no I'm not referring to mine! :-))
Google needs some serious grown-up management.
Google needs some serious grown-up management.
This is the picture of their AdSense team:
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I guess the average age is 25?
[edited by: Raymond at 10:13 am (utc) on Nov. 6, 2007]
Interestingly in relation to customs channels they say that they are aware of it, their engineers are working on it and they hope to provide the missing data by next week.
Huh? Is this a new problem, the old problem, more missing data, what does this exactly mean, there is a FUBAR and they haven't a clue?
Insofar as earnings are concerned they say that it is not uncommon for earnings to fluctuate slightly...SLIGHTLY!...a 60% drop is slight?.?.?.?
As my best mate used to say, there are two hopes, Bob Hope and no hope:-)
Insofar as earnings are concerned they say that it is not uncommon for earnings to fluctuate slightly...SLIGHTLY!...a 60% drop is slight?.?.?.?
When questioned about the missing money their gaze dropped to the floor and they stammered a bit, "uhhh, money goes missing around here all the time, doesn't it?" When asked to empty their pockets they became hostile and shouted, "you have no right!"
[edited by: OnlyToday at 6:48 pm (utc) on Nov. 6, 2007]
Has any one tried adsdaq?
Yes, I signed up. It's making money, but it's too soon for a comparison. It probably will do better than AdSense on pages that get high traffic but low CTR since they pay per impression.
Has any one tried adsdaq?
For those who tried ADSDAQ: do any of you have any issues with AdSense/ADSDAQ integration? Like, missing impressions or anything of the sort?
It looks like Google is headed downwards while Yahoo is heading in the opposite direction at this point.
The Halloween picture above say a thousand words...
Are you allowed ADSDAQ and adsense on the same pages?
The ADSDAQ ads look nothing like AdSense and could not be mistaken for them. I think that's ok.
And to answer loudspeaker's question above, I am getting about as many valid AdSense clicks as I'd expect on those served through ADSDAQ as replacements for unsold ADSDAQ slots.
I think I need to adjust my bids on ADSDAQ but even so I don't see this as an answer to falling AdSense eCPM, just an alternative. I wouldn't put them on pages where I get a good AdSense CTR.
Yahoo are you listening? GET YPN TO EUROPE ALREADY!
I find it confusing to say the least that Y! and MS are going tit-for-tat with Google on maps, index size, free analytics, etc. but don't want to touch what really matters, which is the full extent of Adsense, including offering contextual ads to publishers outside of US.
Yes, I signed up. It's making money, but it's too soon for a comparison
Has anybody anything to add about ADSDAQ? as I am considering this option too.
Has anybody anything to add about ADSDAQ?
The jscript replacement worked well.
The other thing I hadn't been paying careful attention to is that our daily Adsense page views are now running about the same as last year, thanks to an unexplained jump in organic search traffic a little over a week ago. So it's a mixed bag - if the current eCPM and traffic hold up, December will only come in about 10% down in terms of Adsense income, instead of the 30% or so down we saw in October and maybe 22% down for November if the week finishes out OK.
Haven't tried any new ad networks yet on all the advertising free page views we have at this point, maybe 85% of our total, and our widget sales seem to be up a little as a result. I'd be more tempted to try ADSDAQ is they didn't show a $0.80 CPM ask price in their example. We'd have to get 10 times that to even think about it.
I'm sad to say the results were terrible, I've taken their ads down. It's a good concept but has a chicken and egg problem--too few ads, too few publishers.
OnlyToday,
I'm sorry to hear that you didn't find success with ADSDAQ as it was begining to sound quite promising. In any case, thank you for sharing your experience.
