Anyone here on Premium Adsense?

Why switch?

[ShunT]

I'm looking to go Premium in a few months once I hit 20+ million page impressions and wondering if anyone here could tell me what's different. What does Premium give you other than help from their techs on optimization and the removal of the "Ads by Google" text?

Are there better stats or more options?

Thanks,

[sailorjwd]

I would wager the holiday gift would be nicer :)

[freeflight2]

many more layout options and a very friendly & knowledgeable account manager. Took much more than 20M pvs though until they finally called.

[ShunT]

freeflight2 - Are you a Premium publisher? If so how many impressions did you get before they emailed you. Did you accept?

I BEFORE I signed up with Adsense I applied for a Premium account (this was 3 years ago)and said I got 20M impressions/month (even though at the time I didn't) because I was wondering if there was something else they were looking for in a Premium publisher. I was correct, they turned down my app and said to signup with normal Adsense for now:

A. How did they know I don't get 20M+ impressions when I wasn't signed up with normal adsense.
B. What else are they looking for? They won't say but maybe it's theme or conent based (ie. 400+ pages of content).

I wish Google would clear that up, although everytime I contact them they won't spell out "What it takes to become a Premium Publisher"

[Chico_Loco]

premium is probably more than just pageviews, it's probably got something to do with CTR's and conversions.

If you have 50M pageviews of complete and utter junk that never performed they probably wouldn't let you go premium since that would; a) Reduce their systems average CTR; b) make it a lot less attractive to advertisers; c) probably end up making them worse off in the long run.

So unless your site is already pretty well known, you'd probably have to go through the torture of having a regular AdSense account before getting your fancy schmancy premium account.

[jetteroheller]

How did they know I don't get 20M+ impressions when I wasn't signed up with normal adsense.

Since the Google toolbar is much more around than the Alexa toolbar

Since Google sends most traffic to websites

They have a very good information about the actual trafic on a web site.

Even I make some tmes jokes with it.

I once received a reguest for SEO work to improve a web site.

I discovered on his site wild claims about how much visitors he has

I answered him

"With my work, You will have in about 6 month as much trafic as You claim now on Your site"

The statistic disappeared on the next day.

[activeco]

Even I make some tmes jokes with it.

jetteroheller:

Do you say there is an accessible way to use the G toolbar to find out traffic estimates?

[hdpt00]

active: No, I think he is saying google could probably get a pretty good guess though to know if you are telling the truth.

[ShunT]

Not really, with the Google toolbar you have NO way to tell the traffic the site is getting.. even PR can't tell that