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adsense in Email - will it be possible?

         

newbies

12:37 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I have a mailing list with thousand of subscribers and hope one day G allows us to put adsense code in email message.

Will it be possible?

ganderla

1:09 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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hope one day G allows us to put adsense code in email message

If they will allow it, it is possible.
I assume that someday it will be possible as they will somehow send the bot the the message or have you scan it first to make sure relevant ads come up.

genesislogic

1:09 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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ACK! I hope not. Mail hopefully remains one of the few places free from commercial solicitation (outside of spam of course). Maybe its just me, but I dont relish looking forward to getting an email from someone i know, to have it prefaced by ads

OptiRex

1:45 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)



to have it prefaced by ads

Why "prefaced" and not "ads of associated interest "to one's niche widget newsletter?

It is going to happen, my newsletters, like many others, have been ready for ages!

I already include advertisers promos, why not Adsense promos?

genesislogic

2:28 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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maybe in commercial e-zines and stuff, sure - that makes sense and i see that coming

i dont see it happening it personal emails (god, i hope not). ick, i can see it now -- i email Rick a friend, asking him if he can make it by 7pm to my house so we can go see that movie at 7:40, and he replies to me 'Yep' and its prefaced by google adwords on movies and real estate

yuck

2fast

4:11 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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If Google approves this...(I don't think so...)

Great!

I will send emails to my grandma, granddad, all my uncles and aunties everyday, telling about what I did on that day, and of course with some expensive keywords of drugs they would really like to use. :)

Sobriquet

4:33 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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well.. i hope NOT ..

lets keep the mail clean

HiCairo

9:27 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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ads are not dirt so to keep mails clean wihtout...

the main problem is many email clients disable javascript.

DXL

9:42 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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The last thing I need are 100 more emails a day entitled:

!M3s0_thel10m@

pawas

9:58 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I don't think this will happen.
It will be very difficult to monitor click fraud.

Publishers may try leave a note in the newsletter to click on Google ads.

Critters

10:48 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Ads in emails is against the TOS. Ads can only go on pages google can crawl. So not emails, not applicaitons.

Ferran

11:20 am on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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But you can send a link to your mail list published online with adsense ads.

Instead of send the information in the email, send user a link to the email posted in a page of your web.

I think thats ok with Google, but is better you email G if you want to try it, maybe they dont like too many email referers...

EVOrange

12:09 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Well, assuming that the original posters question was not about sending emails to grandma, (and i don't think I'm making a big stretch here), Google does not currently allow small publishers to include AdSense in newsletters.
I do believe that i saw mentioned on these boards that they have some premium partners that are doing it. I ask and they told me no, with no hint of "maybe later".
I also saw mentioned that Tribal Fusion has that option and though i have been approved for TF i have not yet implemented their program or looked into the email thing.
I send out 40,000 double opt in emails a week for free. The day that Yahoo, Google or MSN offers me the ability to input content (and city+content) related PPC ads will be the day it happens in my world.

Gargen

12:12 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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yea that would be nice you know something subtle 468x60 banner at the bottom i send out a quartley newsletter and i may be making it bi-monthly soon

OptiRex

2:22 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)



I send out 40,000 double opt in emails a week for free.

40,000 per week!

Respectfully that reads like spam to me...unless you happen to be a multi-national with an enormous database of exisiting and new customers handing over details like crazy, and I find that very hard to believe.

abbeyvet

2:29 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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40,000 per week!

It's not so huge, certainly not in the "must be spam" league. I send over 12,000 to a single mailing list, all of whom have requested the "weekly newsletter" on a not amazingly huge or popular site, certainly not a major corporation. There is a tiny unsubscribe rate, many people have been getting the weekly newsletter for years.

Being able to put adsense in it would be fantastic. Just one itsy bitsy block would do :)

As it is earnings peak massively on Newsletter days anyway as so many people click through to the site.

EVOrange

2:58 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Respectfully that reads like spam to me

And you would be wrong, OptiRex. There isn't an email in my database that wasn't asked for and then confirmed.

It's the nature of my site, the information is contantly updated and folks want know.

EVO

europeforvisitors

3:03 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)



Google would be foolish to permit AdSense in e-mail except for handpicked accounts (such as premium partners with immaculate track records). The PR fallout from billions of made-for-AdSense spam e-mails would be enormous.

EVOrange

3:06 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I agree that abuse could be rampant, but feel that quality controls could be implemented to verify the nature of the opt-in that would still offer a good oppurtunity.

EVO

alika

3:27 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I think the only way this can be done is in areas where G some sort of control over the email. Gmail is the best place for them to do it.

For publisher's newsletter, maybe they can do something like what Burst does - control the subscription and the sending out of the emails. This way, Burst knows that (a) the list is indeed double opt-in and folks who signed up for the newsletter really want to receive the newsletter; and (b) they deliver it themselves to prevent abuse. I know that Burst require that the publisher turn over their list to them -- and Burst will have to confirm each and every single email on that list. Then new subscriptions go through them.

I dunno if G would want to go into this space. It will be interesting to see, though.

OptiRex

5:02 pm on Aug 1, 2005 (gmt 0)



And you would be wrong, OptiRex.

So they're not all new e-mail addresses but exisiting ones which are continually added to?

I read the posting as if you were sending to 40,000 potential new wine subscibers per week. That would be one heck of a growth industry:-)

There is a tiny unsubscribe rate, many people have been getting the weekly newsletter for years.

Yep, I have an 18,500 subscriber base which is steadily added to all the time and what always surprises me is that after a newsletter there are very rarely any unsubscribes.