What I'd like to see in adsense .

Let's give our new ASA a running start

[swa66]

Since we have a new ASA, let's give him/her a running start with a list of things we need in Adsense. Let's try to get this regularly and try to keep it a bit prioritized for him/her.

1) Substantially better reporting: including which advertiser got what keywords (it's ok to have the different geolocations combined) - The preview tool is far below par (IE only -please!- and you only get a sample per click and you need to click a zillion times to get all geolocations

2) Better banning tools
- display URL, redirect URL (both!) if I don't want ebay, I don't care they have a zillion affiliates
- per advertiser (once up to no good, always so)
- per keyword targeted (if my site is not about it at all (e.g. look at the member having dope ads by default)
- per keyword in the ad copy (e.g. I'd instantly drop in there "free" "screensaver" etc.)

3) Minimum price per click (if you don't have inventory, fine let me run my alternates, but I don't want sub US$0.01 clicks (that even less in EUR ;-) ). If Google wants to be a marketplace, then let those selling space also determine a bit of the price setting.

[jetteroheller]

I wish an additional column in EUR with the actual exchange rate of this day.

It's extreme complicate to compare my AdSense earnings in different years and now even in different month because off the fast decline of the US$

For example

March 13th 2005 $122 100.-EUR
March 13th 2006 $128 100.-EUR
March 13th 2007 $133 100.-EUR
March 13th 2008 $155 100.-EUR

[glitterball]

I wish an additional column in EUR with the actual exchange rate of this day.

I'll second that, if you mean that we should have the option of converting into Euro on the same day. Watching the USD balance shrinking against the Euro is depressing.

[Jean]

I want EFT in Greece! It's Euro currency and if I am able to deal with all European banks online and transfer money back and forth between various European bank accounts at almost no cost why is it that Google still cannot provide me with an EFT payment and has to send a cheque? (as you are based in Dublin ASA I guess that I don't need to spell it check ;-)

[edited by: Jean at 11:29 pm (utc) on Mar. 13, 2008]

[webcenter]

We need more channels.

[jordanmcclements]

I second the extra channels request - at least 10 times as many channels would be handy.

[sonjay]

More channels.

Better blocking of crap MFA sites, unacceptable ads, and unrelated ads.

More channels.

Better blocking.

Did I mention we need more channels and better blocking?

Giving us, the publishers, the tools to block the crap would clean up the content network better and faster than any amount of manual reviews and bans by Google.

[Jean]

Giving us, the publishers, the tools to block the crap

and for that we'd need a working preview tool, preferably working with other browsers than IE