100 days of Adsense

Yahoooooooooooooo !

[mallu]

I will be completing 100 days of running adsense in a couple of days. I think, adsense itself will be completing 100 days today or tomorrow. ( I think, I was late by a couple of days :( )

Needless to say, Adsense has simply amazed me with its great potential. The best thing is that I feel good, when I put adsense on my pages. It enhances the content on my pages rather than sticking out like a sore thumb like every other ad network I tried.

Here is wishing adsense and all of us, all the success in the coming days.

My only wish and request to google is to take a look at the fraudulent click detection problem. I hope, google hits upon a solution that is fair.

It keeps me awake at nights when I think of the possibility that I might be banned because of no fault of mine.

As my partnership with google grows, I hope google will see me as a valuable partner as I see them and not ban me for something which might be beyond my control.

I have not cliked even once. I have asked friends, family and regular visitors not to click! I have not received a single warning mail till now. I hope it stays that way.

I have faith in google. I am sure they will come up with something which is fair and balanced.

So here is a toast to google and all of us here!

Good luck :-)

[daunk]

My brother once clicked on one of the ads on my sites and I hardly slept that night! I was so sure that google was going to flag me as we are on a network here and I did not warn him in time not to click! Well two months later there is still no email, but I do still worry :P

You can never be too careful! Adsense is too good to lose, I think to keep this credibilitiy they will have to be tough on fradulent clicks, at the same time as being fair to genuine innocent people. So far they seem to have got it just right. All the people who come here saying their accounts have been shut down admit to having clicked their ads "a few times" one even talks about "pushing up his CTR", all sounds a bit dodgy to me really and I wonder if google is really being unfair or perhaps the publishers just have a chip on their shoulder and want to vent their anger at google (whereas in reality its their own stupidity).

[Even_Steven]

I think Google may feel some comfort level knowing that they have the only contextual advertising affiliate program, and that so many webmasters are using it. What is sorely needed is for Overture to launch its own version of AdSense, and even a third offering from some other network.

Once Google sees Overture taking away its affiliate base, they won't be so quick to kick out affiliates.

[kwasher]

I know what you mean. I was up so late the other night, looking for scripts and tweaking my site... had 5 windows open during a click and search frenzy, saw an ad on adsense that had exactly what I was looking for and almost clicked it in my delight of having found it. Caught myself just in time, cause THAT window was on MY page! Certainly don't want to displease the google god.

--Kenn

[Paris]

"What is sorely needed is for Overture to launch its own version of AdSense, and even a third offering from some other network."

Overture, definitely. I'm not sure who would be the viable third player. It can't be the Ah-Has serving penny ads and the FindWhat and LookSmart camp probably don't have the necessary supply.

I'd be shocked if Overture wasn't in the market sooner rather than later. AdSense is not only a win-win-win business for all three parties but it's also a great marketer for AdWords.