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Top 5 Adsense Publisher Requests
1. Minimum CPC
2. More channels
3. Block ads by keyword
4. Bigger competitive filter
5. Smart pricing information
Check your account. We have more than doubled your number of filters (to 500).
Please don't go crazy with this. The reason we're not announcing it on the blog is that we don't want to overload our system with everyone filling their filters to capacity at once.
Huge thanks go to the awesome engineering team that implemented this for us (I'm an AdSense publisher, too, after all).
Please feel free to leave love letters to our engineers below.
ASA
true_INFP
I knew someone would amend that.
"I am feeling a little vaklempt. I give you a topic, talk amongst yourselves!"
- Coffee Talk SNL
I'm an AdSense publisher, too, after all
I think this needs clarification from ASA as it seems to have caused some confusion.
Yes, Google employees are obviously allowed to run web sites, it's been said before, but not in relation to AdSense afaik.
Another way out for ASA (although not too strong), is that all Google employees are AdSense publishers since they work for a company that publishes a web site and makes money off AdSense.
I neither see a conflict of interest, on the contrary it is good to have Googlers suffering too ;-), nor am too worried about Google's ethics, I know first hand the kind of people Google hires and that their recruitment and internal auditing procedures leaves nothing to chance, my concerns nowadays are more code quality related, but it would still be good if ASA clarifies the above.
I neither see a conflict of interest
IANAL, but there might even be laws forbidding such things. At least here in the EU, we do have such laws. They protect companies from their own employees, and, above all, they protect the free market and competition.
I'm an AdSense publisher, too, after all
Yes, Google employees are obviously allowed to run web sites, it's been said before, but not in relation to AdSense afaik.
Well, ASA did write "AdSense publisher", not just "publisher"
When I read the statement, I took it to mean that in addition to being an employee of Google, the ASA is an AdSense publisher on the side. That may or may not have been what ASA meant.
The thing that caught my attention about that was in a previous thread people were asking for the ability to set a minimum CPC. The ASA asked something along the lines of "why would you want to do that?" If the ASA is indeed an AdSense publisher and asked that question, well, I think that says something.
FarmBoy
Never saw that, but in any case, there are pros and cons of AdSense employees with AdSense accounts. Pros: they will understand better what developments publishers should get. Cons: they will potentially take money from other publishers with "inside information" to know the real tricks of the trade.
> About the limit increase: I had hoped that there would be mention on the filter page something to the effect of "you have used x out of y available filters" so you'd have an idea of usage.
Exactly. There is one for the channels, so why not filters, too.
500 is better, but I'm still lobbying for a Fraud Filter (unlimited). Why is Google still trying to get us to use a Competitive Ad Filter for something it wasn't intended for? How many publishers have 500 competitors!? lol.
@netmeg: Don't advertisers have a filter that can block by account? I think publishers should be able to filter associated advertisements. (Publishers enter one target URL; Google blocks all ads by advertisers associated with that account.) The threat alone of being blacklisted would make more advertisers ethical, wouldn't it?
p/g
My understanding is that AdSense and AdWords employees are encouraged to run AdSense and AdWords themselves. I seem to recall some threads about that in years past
There was a thread on this very topic just two days ago. However it seems to have vanished into thin air.
...publishers should be able to filter associated advertisements. (Publishers enter one target URL; Google blocks all ads by advertisers associated with that account.)
Now that would be nice.
[edited by: Scurramunga at 12:05 am (utc) on April 15, 2009]
The ASA asked something along the lines of "why would you want to do that?" If the ASA is indeed an AdSense publisher and asked that question, well, I think that says something.
I dunno, I'm a longtime publisher, and that's not something that's high my list either.
@netmeg: Don't advertisers have a filter that can block by account? I think publishers should be able to filter associated advertisements. (Publishers enter one target URL; Google blocks all ads by advertisers associated with that account.) The threat alone of being blacklisted would make more advertisers ethical, wouldn't it?
No, advertisers can block specific urls, and they can block a handful of site types (violent content, parked domains, forums, video sites, a couple others) That's it. If you have five sites, and I block one of yours by domain name, I could conceivably still show up on the other four.
