AdSense feature requests May 2008

[AdSenseAdvisor]

Thanks for your feedback and feature requests to date.

We appreciate you taking the time to let us know how we can improve the AdSense program.

If there are features you would like to see in AdSense, please tell us about them here.

ASA

[koan]

Bring back the old default colors for adlinks on the page with the list of ads instead of using the selected adlinks colors which often do not scale well for a full page, and worse, with a Google logo at the top that doesn't even blend with the background color, so you're stuck with a tacky border around it, reminiscent of an old, badly designed geocities pages. I just don't get this one.

[Khensu]

I'll take the arrows, just 2 ads up please.

[BrandNewDay]

A table that shows how much money I get per click for what specific ad.

[Scurramunga]

A smartpricing status indicator.

[nickreynolds]

1. Adsense reports that don't lag about 6 hours behind.
2. Quicker payments - why do we have to wait more than a day or two beyond month end for payments?
3. Adsense reports not to go down for "routine maintenance" - I don't know of any other website I use that does this so often
4. More than 200 url channels

[swa66]

Adsense reports of the ongoing day aren't what I seek: for all I care focus on getting me far better reporting on anything but the current day. I can wait, but I can't live without far better reporting.

Payments are just fine for me. I'd rather not see fixes to something that isn't broken.

more URL channels sould help, but why use channels at all? You have the URL, let us dig through them at will. See analytics for how to do it.

[Hobbs]

Stop counting Link Units as ad impressions please

Link units are not ads, but a link to ads.
They are closer in function to referral ads than ad units, and you do not count referral ads in our eCPM.
We have Zero control on Google's link unit landing page.
They distort a site's eCPM heavily, specially when used in addition to regular ad units on a page.
You will find a wide adoption of Link Units if you do.

[zett]

Fix targeting.

You see, I run a site on widgets. Blue, yellow, pink, green widgets, and many more. Each widget has a subsection on the site. Yet, when I visit one section of a site for the first time in a day, I often (not always) see ads for red widgets appear on, say, a section for green widgets. NO WONDER NOONE IS CLICKING. After the first click to the next page, describing green widgets further, the targeting appears to be fixed, just like a miracle. I'd like to see Adsense getting the ads right immediately, and not upon the second click.

[OutdoorWebcams]

When adding ads to the filter, stop serving them immediately.

When I start an ad campain the ads run immediately.
When I stop an ad campain the ads stop immediately.

Why do I have to wait up to one day for ads in the filter to disappear?

[zett]

Let us filter by TLD

.info? .biz? .org? 99% of the ads for those TLDs are crap. At least from my point of view. Would really ease the stress on the stupid 200 slot limit for the filter. And no, it should not be rocket science to implement.

God, why am I writing this? They will NEVER implement this. They pretend to listen, but in reality they just don't care.

[Scurramunga]

When adding ads to the filter, stop serving them immediately.

i could never understand why they can't get this part right. Maybe it's to discourage us from blocking fleas.

[Chapman]

I don't believe I've seen this one mentioned (sorry if it was):

Consistancy in targeting for both Ad Units and Link Units

I have one site where the topic is similar to "British cars". On a single page, the ad units show 'great' ads for "British cars" and the link units show ads for ANYTHING (and everything) to do with "Great Britain" (British). You can imagine how well those link units are converting!

Lose the link units you say... on every other site the link units are 75-80% of my conversions due to the way they integrate into the page design. It's only on this site that the link and ad units go their seperate ways. Why? Same content for both!

[Chapman]

Stop counting Link Units as ad impressions please

Thank you Hobbs... this drives me crazy!

[Khensu]

Yes I would would use link units if they only counted when clicked, otherwise they destroy the eCPM. I just want some of whatever stuff that they are _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

[edited by: Khensu at 12:30 am (utc) on May 18, 2008]

[shortbus1662]

I'm guessing this will never happen. It's also probably been suggested, but I'm not gonna read every page to see.

Combine adwords and adsense accounts.

[leadegroot]

Allow funds in multiple currencies
This would be a change in adwords too.
Basically, foreign publishers and advertisers are being stung by the currency arbitrage nature of the adsense payment system.
For example, the majority of my sites are in the .au market, and the majority of my advertisers are also domestic here.
They are sending you money, you convert it to USD and bill them, convert my payment back and send me AUD. But by the end of the month all those conversions have made the amount change, sometimes drastically.
If I could opt to have my account recorded in AUD (yes, you already pay me via direct deposit in AUD - thank you very much :)) and my advertisers could opt to have their account recorded in AUD then watching the USD fall would hurt ... not at all.
Obviously there would be other currencies than AUD affected! :)
Yes, at other times I might 'win' as the USD rises, but my point is that my currency is non-US and my advertisers are also using that currency, yet we are both impacted by the changes in a currency that is elsewhere.

[Hobbs]

ASA, it's June already, are we still on?

[zett]

Yeah, ASA, give us that June feature request thread! So many ideas, so little time...

[night707]

Good idea to discuss things here.

Recently i had started a thread about clicks worth as little as 1 cent and it felt, that some publishers would appreciate to set a minimum rate for clicks at their pages.

[night707]

AdSenseAdvisor,

your last response reads very similar to those canned replies coming from support that most publishers do not find that much helpful.

Many webmasters at this forum read lioke being solig, competent and very constructive. Why isn`t Google able to communicate in a constructive manner ?