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Ad Links Trends...What its doing

what have you seen...

         

clearvision

12:01 am on Mar 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I just noticed that the Ad Links, links, have changed since earlier this morning. My home page was sporting phrases like:

Green Widgets
Blue Widgest
Widgets
Purple Widgets

....and is now showing...

Widgets
Green Widgets
Purple Widgets
Teal Widgets

The amount of income after(what I am guessing)adding this new feature has skyrocketed!

Questions:

1. Why are these key phrases changing positions or just changing in general throughout the day when nothing on the page has been altered?

2. Are these clicks being sent to a Google page generating commissions equal to a non-smart pricing version of Adwords? Costs per click seem higher than general Adsense.

annej

12:23 am on Mar 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I noticed they seem to be varying the ad topics they show. It seems a bit early to be showing ads based on what people click but they may be gathering data so they can do that.

linear

2:51 am on Mar 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I can't think of a way to widgetize this and preserve the meaning, so sorry...

On my forum, an adlinks blocks had the term "discussion boards" which I thought was reasonable, if not stellar targeting. So I clicked it and got 9 out of 10 ads for a particular type of game board.

I gave feedback on that, and got the usual canned reply. Depends on a number of factors, yadda yadda.

clearvision

3:03 am on Mar 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Hmmm...this is interesting.

The ads I just viewed were all different, but noticed the sites I would consider "top paying" were mixed within the results. Not that this is fact mind you, they could be listed from highest paying click down, but places like Target (if I can say that) were in the middle of results.

Sweet Cognac

4:47 am on Mar 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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The adlinks seem to be changing every time the page is refreshed.

david_uk

6:48 am on Mar 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



The adlinks seem to be changing every time the page is refreshed.

And it's starting to annoy me! Just looked at the page I'm trying them on. Looked like a good list of topics. Click on the first topic, nice list of advertisers. Click the back button, different list of links! I wanted to check out the other links.