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As mentioned last week, I'll start to collect your feature requests on a weekly basis, and communicate them to the relevant teams.
I look forward to hearing your ideas,
ASA
More comp ad filters. Haven't we done this before?
Yes. Request denied.
Blown out of the water before we had a chance to begin.
[edited by: Scurramunga at 1:43 am (utc) on Mar. 18, 2008]
2) I would like to ban ads by keyword. So if an ad has X word in it I could block it.
3) I would like G to give us a script which we can install on our computers so we are not able to click on Google Ads. I would still be like to be able to see the ads but I do not want to be able to click on them whether it is my site or someone's else even by mistake.
4) Be able to set min CPC and CPM on our own sites.
Thank you.
[edited by: Visit_Thailand at 2:57 am (utc) on Mar. 18, 2008]
Improve Referrals...
If G is going to run an affiliate style program, well, then do it right. As an affiliate marketer I would never look to G's offerings as they are today, 'cause they might not be there tomorrow. Heck, if you have to, just buy somebody who knows what the heck is what in referral marketing. Until then it's best just scrapped.
Well, nowadays, each euro is valued at almost 1,6 US dollars.
I'm getting an average EPC of 0,05 USD, that's about 0,03 EUR... If one click costs 0,01 USD I'll be getting hmmmm... 0,006 EUR. I have some adjectives to describe this but I think it wouldn't be appropriate to write them here.
Wouldn't be nice if the US dollar was totally banned from my adsense account?
Why? An advertisement may be relevant for the visitors of one website, but may be totally useless for visitors of other websites.
I have some adjectives to describe this but I think it wouldn't be appropriate to write them here.
I have taken it on board, and consulted my colleagues. So, going forward, I will collect your feedback on a monthly basis.
Any possibility to see the list of suggestions posted onwards, so we can avoid repeating them month after month?
Many Publishers have sites on topics that are totally unrelated, whose to say you can select offers you don't desire and lump them all into one silo, that is just impractical.
When was that number arrived at? 2 maybe 3 years ago?
Weekly is an overkill.
Hobbs, what are you saying!
We finally have our own personal Leprecon that is willing to grant our wishes on a weekly basis and you talk them out of it?
[off to count brownie points]
[edited by: Hobbs at 10:09 pm (utc) on Mar. 18, 2008]
Oh it is oneuppedness you are looking for!
Dang Brits always looking for a contest.
brownies? I thought all you had was sand down there!
At least I offered her a beer. Hey by the way Adwords sent me the micro frige/cooler for christmas. Holds a 12 pack and plugs into the cigarette lighter in the car, pretty neat.
#1: minimum bid price
- please act like a market, I'll happily use alternates if you're out of stock of decent paying ads
- I can e.g. use up the niche I'm in about 3/4 in the day, so now I just send you less up front but the balancing is pretty hard to do and next to impossible to control dynamically
#2: better reporting (have the team that did analytics have a go at it)
- tell us what ads show, what got clicked, who the advertiser was, (where he redirected to), ... we can either optimize to serve the advertisers better or we can object to the advertiser and then ban it
- preview tool is (bad words suppressed)
#3: better banning tools
- negative keywords
- negative subjects (e.g. sex, drugs, ...)
- ban advertisers
- ban based on display and actual URL
- ability to ban high CTR, low converting ads (they make our site look like a scam, even when not clicked)
- ban anything referencing certain IP ranges (e.g. the RBN and their affiliates ranges)
#4: stop the merge of the accounts, I don't want the same account as I have for e.g. gmail, i like not being logged in all day long (CSRF ?).
#5: The old optimizations messages: please get rid of them.
#6: silly one: when switching reports between adsense for search and adsense for content, plase keep the date range set.
#7: Is there a chance to not use iframes ? They block us from going to a strict DTD
Thanks ASA, I hope we all realize this isn't the most happy job hearing us whine all day long.
Good luck and dont forget to cut more of the publishers revenue so you have better results for your pissed shareholders.
Why on Earth do we have to be able to look up reports dated up until 2037? Maybe hire a programmer to clean up our report pages. All the rest is irrelevant as you'll just shove whatever you want at us anyhow.
- Google serving triple the font size that we chose without our consent, thus disrupting our site layout. Changing the font size randomly by a factor of two or three makes the site look displeasing and unprofessional. We need a set predictable font size so that we can be sure it always matches our site design in a tasteful way.*
- No information on conversion rates or "SmartPricing status" (per page or ad unit).
- Google performing disruptive "experiments" on our userbase without our consent.
If these problems went away, we could consider trying AdSense again.
John
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* It may be in Google's short-term financial interests to vary the font size, but it's not in the publisher's long-term interests as far as the user experience is concerned (certainly not for us -- we want our visitors to like our site and to want to get back, and Google should want the same).
Thank You
#1: minimum bid price
- please act like a market, I'll happily use alternates if you're out of stock of decent paying ads
This is for use when they decide to go after MFAs, fraudsters, whatever, whomsoever, and genuine publishers get caught up in the crossfire and wonder why their EPC, CTR, eCPM and Earnings have just dropped through the floor.
Last October's 2007 glitch was a perfect example with many publishers wondering what was happening and why, meanwhile others were not seeing anything untowards and others having record days/weeks/months.
So long as it is issued correctly a FFOG Warning would stop a lot of fevered speculation amongst concerned publishers chasing around and wondering whether the bottom has fallen out of AdSense and that they ought to try another programme.
Subliminally it would be a good thing to be known that Google will not stand for fraud etc, it could definitely deter anyone even considering attempting it thus making it better for us all...or are things really not this simple?
it's always bugged me that you can't collapse the space if there's no ad to show.
they give you the option of showing charity ads or filling it with a block of colour, but how about collapsing it altogether?
That's cause the size is in the iframe. It's there, before the visitor's browser is directed to google.
iframes are nasty buggers, if you would be able to find if you've been served an ad, you could use javascript to kick out the iframe, but AFAIK there's no such detection as it'd need access by javascript to things belonging to another site (and that's bad from a security perspective)
One of the reasons to ask them to please stop using iframes.
it's always bugged me that you can't collapse the space if there's no ad to show.
they give you the option of showing charity ads or filling it with a block of colour, but how about collapsing it altogether?
There is a way to do a complete collapse. You might want to search through the help files for more info but here is the page about it:
[google.com...]
I tried it for a short time but the effect of seeing that space collapse is rather disconcerting. I gave up on it and chose to either allow the space to be filled with a solid color or allow the PSA's. Currently I'm only allowing the PSA's.
1. The option, when banning a URL in the Competitive Ad Filter, to have AS ban automatically all URLs associated with that advertiser from displaying on my account. This should be an option, not automatic, as it is with the Ad Review Center for placement-targeted ads. This feature would save me an enormous amount of time.
2. AdSense for opt-in e-mail newsletters. I know, I know... it'd create a huge incentive for publishers to create spam. But if you limited the feature to pre-screened publishers, there's a lot of potential advertiser money available here for Google and publishers.
3. I don't know if this is happening, but I would hope that if ads on my sites are being discounted to certain advertisers because visitors from my sites are not converting for them, that the AS system serve the ads from those advertisers to my readers less often. Let's give my readers ads that they do care about and will act upon. If this is happening, I'd love to hear Google acknowledge that, because it would make me feel a lot better about smartpricing.
why should the onus be on us for searching around the net to implement PHP or whatever scripts to try and stop or turn off adsense Ads from fraudsters or certain amount of clicks that might be no good.
Why can't the big powerfull G put a simple tool we can tick in the backoffice for how many ads we want to show any visitor before it is turned off?
For example I would like to set mine to an acceptable 3 before lights out!..if others set to 100 then they are probably upto no good anyway
Minimum click price.
Tells us what decisions have been made. Which suggests are going to be implemented and which have been decided against (and why).
(and why).
Yes, Why.
Why did they turn down these *simple* requests. There was nothing technical about having more channels, or more filters.
I'd love to hear their excuses as to why.
There was nothing technical about having more channels, or more filters
I'd like more channels & filter too but it is both technical and business related.
More channels is a surge in resource usage at the Goog data centers, and since it has been dismissed or kicked to the bottom of the list, one must conclude that in their calculation of the benefits did not outweigh the projected cost, probably due to the sheer number of AdSense publishers and sites, perhaps if they could associate the extra features given to the monthly earnings level they could sort this and give top publishers more toys, why treat all publishers equally? Sub UPS club segmenting is your smart solution.. ASA, please note this request.
As for Filters, they probably think of them as guns in the hands of kids.
