Forum Moderators: martinibuster
Last year we submitted our requests on this forum at [webmasterworld.com...]
We got several wishes fulfilled: Bigger filter, filtering by category, font size control, earnings in local currency, new report panel
Thanks Adsense team
We have until Dec 15 to submit our requests and vote - just in time for Christmas.
I think the top two are clear. The rest are anyone's guess.
I've attempted to group the suggestions by common themes, starting with non-technical requests followed by technical (ones that require programming on the Adsense end)
Non-technical
Foreign currency conversions problem - GeorgeK
EFT to more countries - htdawg
Paypal integration to payment - anand84
Make Western Union payments more widely available - graeme_p
Announce important news on this forum - martinibuster, rj87uk, signor_john
Prompt and meaningful communication - zett, ken_b
Better communication and collaboration with quality publishers - night707
Support quality publishers with quality ads - night707
ASA to participate and provide feedback on feature requests - farmboy
Promote the content network - martinibuster, signor_john, celgins
Develop more bidding strategies appropriate for the content network - martinibuster
Make the Adwords system far simpler and transparent for small businesses - Swanson, farmboy
Share the revenue sharing details with the publisher - anand84
Ad Appearance & Action
Ad click opens a new window - IanCP, Visit Thailand, ArtistMike, vero, HuskyPup
Better control of ad links unit landing page colors - koan
Fill each ad slot with the number of ads it was designed for - OutdoorWebcams, true_INFP
Customizable fonts - OutdoorWebcams, panos
Font control - true_INFP
Ad Filtering & Viewing
Larger filter - jaynl, LifeinAsia, ArtistMike, zett, farmboy
Filter improvements: by keyword, domain, advertiser, ip address - Scurramunga, JonSimmonds, true_INFP, BigDave, signor_john, jaynl, koan, buckworks, jetteroheller
Filter improvements: to block or limit ads on any criteria - ArtistMike
Filter improvements: abliliy to restrict the number of times an ad appears / block specific types of ads such as weight-loss and toolbars / for one or all of the sites in an account - icedowl netmeg
Filter improvements: negative keywords / negative keywords in ad URL / keywords regexp - swa66
Filter improvements: ability to set for family-oriented sites - netmeg
Filter improvements: to include options from Ad Review Center, negative keywords and a way to opt out of certain keywords - Malibucreek, mixart, darkmage
Instant removal of ads in filter from website - Malibucreek
Filter improvements: to allow us to specify the reason for for blocking an ad - farmboy
Filter by landing page phrase - jetteroheller
Filter CPC ads in Ad Review Center - Leonard0
Pre-approval of advertisers by ad content - MsHuggys
Adsense Review Center should show which site was targeted - jaynl
Opt out of run-of-network ads - Malibucreek
Check that landing page URL matches the display URL and no IP in URL - farmboy, swa66
Ability to correct erroneously matched contextual ads - koan
Ability to specify keywords - JonSimmonds
Adsense preview tool for Firefox - koan
Preview tool for Mac Safari - Malibucreek
Ad Pricing
Minimum CPC per ad - zett, Scurramunga, ganeshcp, IanCP, ArtistMike, HuskyPup, night707, darkmage, iridiax, swa66
Minimum CPC set by channel or ad block - ArtistMike, Malibucreek, koan
Minimum CPC: set on a site or channel basis - koan
Minimum CPC Publisher set by site or page - Bddmed
Minimum CPC: especially able to set for targetted ads - Visit Thailand
Ability to set a minimum EPC/CPC should not impact the sites that don't set a minimum - BigDave
Link unit ads should have same CPC as Search network ads - Erku
Information on whether a site is smart priced or not (Advertisers Conversion Rating) - koan, HuskyPup, OnlyToday, true_INFP
Investigate the Smart Pricing algo for unexpected price fluctuations - ganeshcp
Ad Managing
Ability to use GAS to sell, manage, and collect payments for ad slots sold directly to advertisers - Visit Thailand
Ability to integrate directly-sold ads in Google ad blocks - JonSimmonds
Overhaul AdSense AdManager - ArtistMike
Ad Types
Combination text and image ads like Amazon's - iridiax
"view-through" for CPM placement-targeted ads - signor_john
Referrals
Referral system that allows you to send a link to an advertiser - Visit Thailand
Stats & Reports
Better stats - zett, Scurramunga
Firefox plugin to show Adsense stats in the status bar - dazzlindonna
More channels - icedowl, netmeg, jetteroheller, farmboy, youfoundjake, Pepito, ken_b, vero, davec, MsHuggys, nickreynolds, webgal23
Update the GAS login to use current Google account email - Visit Thailand
Time stamp on the earnings report page - OnlyToday, HuskyPup
Ability to view aggregate stats for content, mobile, search - anand84, darkmage
Show per-channel conversion rates of specific ads - true_INFP
SMS/Email reports in HTML or one line, not as an attachment - darkmage
Removal of fraudulent clicks from CTR - HuskyPup
Show income in local currency - jchampliaud
Ability to block your own IP's from generating paid clicks - netchicken1
Speed up roll out of Adsense-Admanager integration - elsewhen (This should probably actually be "Adsense-Analytics integration")
The top request by a huge margin, garnering votes from more than half the voters, was
1) WebMoney for Russia and other countries - 1,859 votes
Runners up:
2) minimum CPC - 522 votes
3) ignore clicks generated from a publisher's i.p. address on his/her own site(s) - 449 votes
4) a specific ad should appear only once on a page - 377 votes
5) same ad is not to appear on a page multiple times - 319 votes
6) List of websites where your publisher ID is published - 272 votes
7) filter out all ads containing specific keywords - 263 votes
8) payments via Paypal - 262 votes
9) Adsense Rank similar to "Page Rank" based on Quality, CTR, page impressions,.... - 219 votes
10) numbers from Adsense panel should match the Adsense numbers in Analytics - 203 votes
11) Ads with transparent backgrounds - 175 votes
12) more ad format sizes - 161 votes
13) More efficient Adsense click tracking - 154 votes
14) list of websites where your ads are being published - 148 votes
15) able to specify all the formats that could fit into a space - 153 votes
16) Clicking on an Adsense ad should open it in a new page - 148 votes
17) Combine text ads with small thumbnail images - 143 votes
18) Automatically track the URLs generating clicks so that it's possible to generate specific stats - 140 votes
19) Ability to choose the time zone both for Google Adsense and Google Analytics - 141 votes
20) Payment must be released on the last day of the month not on the following month - 144 votes
Number 4 and 5 are basically the same so their combined total could possibly place them in second.
Number 6 (List of websites where your publisher ID is published) is available under the "Allowed Sites" feature in the Adsense set-up.
Just so you know, the Product Ideas page is open until 11:59pm PST, so you can keep submitting and voting for another 13 hours.
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