Google adsense

[Jan]

For some of you who find it hard to get accepted into ad networks, give this a try :) www.google.com/adsense

See some feed back here (http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21409)

[Matt]

That is really interesting, Jan. Thanks for the heads up.

I suppose we'll give them a try. Perhaps with the inventory and variety they have, it'll perform better than our text-ad initiative. :D

[Canuckkev]

Cool, I couldn't find anything about how much they pay though...?

[ppx]

Well heres a rejection email if you want to read it :D

Hello *,

Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Our program specialists
have reviewed your application. Based on our Terms and Conditions
(https://www.google.com/adsense/terms) and program policies
(https://www.google.com/adsense/policies), we are unable to accept you
into our program at this time.

Sincerely,

The Google Team

[Jan]

Which site did you apply with?

[alien]

Well, I'm averaging around 5-10 cents per click, CTR of around 0.6-0.8%. And it also depends on the site content.

[Antonio]

i feel it need a large number of visitors and the visitors will click the ad is also a problem:(

[Jan]

I am gradually adding the code to my pages and so far today, 450 pages have shown the ads. Click through 1.4%, but overall .9%

[Loon]

I was considering this for a new site that i'm working on, the main reason being the way the ads are displayed would fit it great with the theme/layout.

The only reservation i have at the moment is that they only pay via cheque in $USD adding a paypal option would be ideal, hopefully they will do that sometime soon, be interesting to hear how other people get on with it in the meantime, and how accurate their ads are in relation to your content :)

[Jan]

My ads a very accurate so far :) I place the code on a few different type pages each day and then view the ad, and sure enough, it has picked up on the content. Clever stuff :eek:

[HugoLeite]

just to know how accurate their ads are, you just need to visit one of the http://members.lycos.co.uk site. Lycos now has a partnership with google, that's why they started using a frame on the Tripod members site's...

i'm from portugal, and when i'm visiting THIS (http://members.lycos.co.uk/vhsl) site, in portuguese, the ads that show to me are in portuguese. :)
But if you visit the site you will see "Brevemente (soon)", some of the ads are English and other Portuguese.


P.S.: That was meant to be my homepage, but since they started using ad frames, i'm looking for a different host...

Couldn't lycos have a script that allowed the users to place the ads wherever they wanted, instead of having a Forced Frame ?

like in www.infoplease.com the site refered by adsense/overview !

[Loon]

On that site i got 2 adsense ads, one was in english and the other was in what looked like it could have been portugese, but it could have been anything, i have no clue :p

If they are displaying the ads in a language local to the visitor, that's sure to greatly improve your click rate if you get traffic from all over, compared to other ad programs.

[HugoLeite]

i can't be sure, but i think that the ads displayed, are in the site language.. not sure, but i think so, because before i had any English word on that index page, the ads were all portuguese....

Loon - I'm sure the ad you were getting was in portuguese, after all Portuguese is one of the most hard languages to learn... We have two or more words for everything... :p , and there are like 4 or 5 types of portuguese..... :)

[Matt]

Ahh, looks like Google doesn't want to partner with free hosts, possibly because of their partnership with Tripod. We got a rejection notice today for our application with RedRival.

[Frenzy]

Hi,

Just wondering what your site looks like and how much visitors you had when you were accepted. My website is pretty decent (well I hope so) and I have many pageviews each months but they rejected it. I went through the policies and didn't find anything interesting.

Thanks,
Maxime

[Archbob]

Google's adsense program pays about 6 cents per click on my gaming site and 60 cents per click on my webmaster site.

[flamingskeith]

hm.. I was rejected :(

Does anyone know why? Here's my site: Flaming Skeith (http://flamingskeith.free2host.net)

[alien]

Originally posted by flamingskeith
hm.. I was rejected :(

Does anyone know why? Here's my site: Flaming Skeith (http://flamingskeith.free2host.net)

I think you need a domain name with paid hosting.

[Frenzy]

Hi,

I'm just wondering why you think that might site got rejected ? The url is http://www.biztuner.com. Please give me advices on how I can get accepted with this network.

Best Regards,
Maxime Laroche

[WabbyTwax]

I was rejected a bit ago too. Typical.

[Trel]

We tried google adsense on our website and had decent earnings. Though when it was time to pay up google sent an email to us stating we had fraudulent clicks. Our balance was taken and there is nothing we could do.

In short avoid google adsense and pick a better program.

[Jan]

They haven't been around long enough to send a payment yet :confused: You aren't thinking of adwords are you?

[Archbob]

I think I will make voer $100 in July from them and being google, I trust they'll pay me.

[Canuckkev]

Huh...I got rejected about 30 seconds after confirming my e-mail address...

[Archbob]

Did you apply with 3kd.net ? I'd be surprised if they rejected that.

[Canuckkev]

Yes. I was sort of surprised too. Maybe they checked the Pagerank...and found out it didn't have one. I bet that's what it is. I will apply again once I actually start getting some traffic (other than people clicking my www at this and other forums).

[HugoLeite]

https://www.google.com/adsense/policies

if you are wondering why you weren't accepted....
but in some cases it is really strange the reason why (Ex. Cannuckev)

[Peo]

Apparently Google Adsense now have added text links with related searches at the bottom of that ad box which publishers don't get paid for when someone clicks. So, that means a non-paying text ad with links to the competitors... Not something I want at the top of my pages. Sad that it's not possible to remove the "related searches".

But other than that I'm happy with Adsense. I've tried it for a month now.

[Jan]

Yes if you check http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=48 those that have been accepted are more than happy :)

[Peo]

Great news from Adsense: They will remove the "related research" apparently until webmasters have the option to enable or disable it.

In an email to publishers today from Google Adsense:

"You may have also noticed that a ‘Related Searches’ feature was released last night. We tested this feature with a number of publishers; however, when we released it more broadly, we started receiving feedback about concerns we didn't fully anticipate. Because we want this to work for everyone, we’ve decided to temporarily disable this feature until we can better address the concerns. We’ll re-release this feature shortly with greater flexibility for web publishers. When we do, we’ll let you know. "

[Trel]

Update about Google Adsense,

They did indeed pay and I have republished the ads on my website.

If you can get accepted it is a top notch program to be in.

[Faraz]

Originally posted by LifelessHost
Update about Google Adsense,

They did indeed pay and I have republished the ads on my website.

If you can get accepted it is a top notch program to be in.
I agree! and if you want to see ads google will show on your pages before putting them then go here
http://google.blogspace.com/archives/000984

[darkcurves]

I made USD60 after 77 days. Not bad for a website about trains. Now....40 bucks to go.

Hope i dont get cheated like Dimeclicks.com. They paid me about USD200 but not the rest.

[amirk999]

currently $12.55 after 2 days. I don't think google will scam us, they are "the" Google :)

[darkcurves]

Originally posted by amirk999
currently $12.55 after 2 days. I don't think google will scam us, they are "the" Google :)

Yeah. Dont you think by putting the banner in your site, you will loose customers? Anyway, great image hosting man. Fast and better uptime then the rest

[Faraz]

Originally posted by darkcurves
Yeah. Dont you think by putting the banner in your site, you will loose customers? Anyway, great image hosting man. Fast and better uptime then the rest
Yeh! if running a paid service.

[amirk999]

Originally posted by darkcurves
Yeah. Dont you think by putting the banner in your site, you will loose customers? Anyway, great image hosting man. Fast and better uptime then the rest

I mostly put it under everything, so they won't pay attention. But for the free image thing I put one on the top just in case they would like to click on it :)

[Jan]

Some banner ads do work, I think site viewers are immune to them nowadays, whether you are on paid hosting or freehosting. They have sure given me a lot of "pocket money" in the past and adsense is doing the same :cool2:

[Trel]

Eh.. Another update about Google.

Here it sits, September 30th. No check issued for August earnings.

Any of you end up getting paid for what you made in August?

Google.. :rolleyes: may not pay?

[Jan]

They have been paying, and here there was a bit of delay, but someone received one today. Don't panic ;)

http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22324

[Trel]

Well it is hard to be at the mercy of Google to pay for your dedicated server costs.

I suppose I'll survive until Google pays.

Thanks for the update Jan. :D

[Peo]

AdSense are now available to sites in other languages than english:

"Existing AdSense publishers now have the option of placing their ad code on pages with content in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, providing that these pages comply with the Terms and Conditions."

(From an email sent to publishers today)

Apparently that doesn't include new affilates who have sites in only those languages yet. I hope they add swedish to acceptable languages soon too.

[darkcurves]

Yeah, got that mail too. It's good they are allowing other languages. There must be a lot of advertisers from this countries too.

[Akagi]

just wondering, why my site only earns so little from Google Adsense...im earning less than a dollar after a week
www.akaginet.com

[Jan]

At a guess I would say that people don't notice the ads because they blend in with your design. I would choose a colour combination that matched one of the graphics and it might stand out more. I had trouble differentiating between content and ads.

[darkcurves]

That's so true. I didn;t notice the AD at all.

[ExoWorks]

I was surprised when I got $1.32 for a click.
That is really amazing, $12 in 4 days.

[Canuckkev]

Originally posted by Akagi
just wondering, why my site only earns so little from Google Adsense...im earning less than a dollar after a week
www.akaginet.com

I'd like to add me as well. I looked through the page once, and on the second glance is when I noticed the ad.

[darkcurves]

Originally posted by Mike_R
I was surprised when I got $1.32 for a click.
That is really amazing, $12 in 4 days.

Yeah, me too. Somtimes i get very alot for just one click but get less than 50 cents for 6 clicks. Strange......

[Mandrake]

Is there a minimum amount of traffic to get approved by Google? I've been thinking about them for my Angels site. It gets about 50-70 hits a day so far, but should increase soon.

[Faraz]

Originally posted by Mandrake
Is there a minimum amount of traffic to get approved by Google? I've been thinking about them for my Angels site. It gets about 50-70 hits a day so far, but should increase soon.
No there is no minimum amount of traffic to get approved.

[darkcurves]

Originally posted by Mandrake
Is there a minimum amount of traffic to get approved by Google? I've been thinking about them for my Angels site. It gets about 50-70 hits a day so far, but should increase soon.

Great website. You should try applying.:-)

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by Faraz
No there is no minimum amount of traffic to get approved.

Thanks! I probably will. The forums have been around since February, but I just added the rest of it about two weeks ago. I still have sections to get up and running... Just a matter of time. :)

[Jan]

Good luck with it Mandrake :) I am sure you won't regret it.

Nice to see you back in these here parts :biggrin2:

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by Jan
Good luck with it Mandrake :) I am sure you won't regret it.

Nice to see you back in these here parts :biggrin2:

Nice to be back and actually have time to spend on the 'net again. :)

I applied for Google... I should get approved. My Angels site is similar to a Marlins fansite I ran across and they have Google Ads. :cool2:

[Akagi]

so for my case, i should make my ads bg and text color different from my main page? Doesn't that make it look less integrated?

I'm thinking of adding the ads to the banner and blend in with the banner with black bg and white text

[awayfromforum]

Originally posted by Canuckkev
Yes. I was sort of surprised too. Maybe they checked the Pagerank...and found out it didn't have one. I bet that's what it is. I will apply again once I actually start getting some traffic (other than people clicking my www at this and other forums).

You have other ads on your site.

[awayfromforum]

See, with google adsense there really is no set limit on how much you get per click.

It all depends on how high the page that someone clicked to go to is ranked, and how much this person is paying.

I love the system. I have it on one of my sites, and i get good pagerank for free, and i make money :P.

As it says in the rules that i cant disclose what i make, i wont.

But i love the system, nobody really says they are hurtfull, o somehow distract them. And they love how they bend to what the post or site content is.

The only way it distracts a visitor, is because the ads are targeted for your site.

So all i can say is i am really positive. I have to wait till the end of the year to get my check, but its giving me some pocket money. Something i can use :)

[Jan]

Originally posted by Akagi
so for my case, i should make my ads bg and text color different from my main page? Doesn't that make it look less integrated?
Well if several of us viewed it and had trouble seeing the google ad, I would say it was too integrated. No need to change much, just make it different to the design by a few shades :)

[Mandrake]

Damn... They're fast! I applied last night and was already approved when I came home from work this evening. Ads are now up and running on every page except my forums. I'm considering putting ads at the top of the boards like here, but haven't made up my mind yet.

[amirk999]

are we allowed putting popups on the same page as the google ads?

They never said anything about that.

[Faraz]

Originally posted by amirk999
are we allowed putting popups on the same page as the google ads?

They never said anything about that.
i got rejected once because of popups on my page.So i suggest you to not to put them.

[amirk999]

Originally posted by Faraz
i got rejected once because of popups on my page.So i suggest you to not to put them.

Alright, thanks for the heads up :)

[darkcurves]

Originally posted by amirk999
are we allowed putting popups on the same page as the google ads?

They never said anything about that.

I think they said it in their tos.

[riseup]

Friday, November 14, 2003 12 4 33.3% $3.39
Waooo :doh!:

[sizlar]

Well, it's sounds great :biggrin2:! I would also like to do it but I have some questions:

Do I recive checks by mail? And how often?
Does it pays ppl in Belgium?
How old must you be?
Is it good :P ;)

Thanks

[darkcurves]

Originally posted by sizlar
Well, it's sounds great :biggrin2:! I would also like to do it but I have some questions:

Do I recive checks by mail? And how often?
Does it pays ppl in Belgium?
How old must you be?
Is it good :P ;)

Thanks

1)Yeah,you receive checks by mail and end of every month if you've reached USD100.
2)Yeah, it pays International user.
3)You gotta be 18,i guess.
4)Damn good.

[amirk999]

Originally posted by darkcurves
1)Yeah,you receive checks by mail and end of every month if you've reached USD100.
2)Yeah, it pays International user.
3)You gotta be 18,i guess.
4)Damn good.

Do they still send you cheques even though it is not in the payment history?
(I know they cleared it after the tax thing, but some people had it before that).

[Fuzzylogic]

what sorts of sites are they looking for?, do they look at just commerial sites or anything?.

[Jan]

As long as it has good content that will meet heaps of sponsors' ads you should be accepted :) I got quite a kick out of adding them for the first time, as my site has such varied content. :) I added it /whatever.htm and viewed it and there were ads for "whatever", then whatchamacallit.htm, and there were ads for whatchamacallit. Very clever stuff :)

[shizzle]

You think there's any chance for robblerobble.com? I'm unsure of what they accept and what they don't. I heard also that if they reject you once, they'll never accept you.

[CareBear]

Originally posted by sizlar
Do I recive checks by mail? And how often?
Does it pays ppl in Belgium?Depending on your bank you'll get a $25-$50 fee on a check issued by a US bank though :o

[Faraz]

Originally posted by shizzle
You think there's any chance for robblerobble.com? I'm unsure of what they accept and what they don't. I heard also that if they reject you once, they'll never accept you.
No this is wrong.I was accepted in 4th try :)

[john874]

CareBear you mentioned the following statment:

Depending on your bank you'll get a $25-$50 fee on a check issued by a US bank though

That's a big chunk of money that they take from you just for converting $100 to your own currency.

It looks as if people will have to earn quite a bit from Google Adsense before they actually make a good bit of money with the bank taking that amount out and then taxes being deducted from it aswell.

[CareBear]

Originally posted by john874
CareBear you mentioned the following statment:

Depending on your bank you'll get a $25-$50 fee on a check issued by a US bank though

That's a big chunk of money that they take from you just for converting $100 to your own currency.

It looks as if people will have to earn quite a bit from Google Adsense before they actually make a good bit of money with the bank taking that amount out and then taxes being deducted from it aswell. It's country and bank dependant which is why I quoted such a huge range. One I used had a $25 flat fee + a percentage of the amount. The account is in US $ so the fee was solely for cashing in the check, not for currency conversion.
They have to do a little more though, the check needs to be mailed to the US, checked with the local bank to make sure there's sufficient funds in the account, then transfered from the US to your bank and then finally from them to your account. It usually took about 2-3 weeks before the money actually appeared on my statement.

[Jan]

The only time I had a long wait was when the cheque came to more than $AUD1000 (the good old days :crysad: ), Anything under was processed immediately and placed in my account. It costs $AUD10 with the bank I am with for one or multiple cheques.

[amirk999]

I don't know what happened to my account, but I can't login. Everytime I try, I get this:

Account Not Active
An AdSense account does not exist for this login, as it is associated with an unapproved application. For more information about your application, please review the message we sent to the email address you provided with your application.

I am scared :(
I didn't do anything wrong :(
I followed everything they told me, what should I do?
I already emailed them, but what else is there?

[Jan]

What was in the email they sent?

For more information about your application, please review the message we sent to the email address you provided with your application.

[amirk999]

I never got any emails from Google in a while. Once they asked me to remove a few posts because members were talking about "confidential" information about Google, I deleted them and emailed them back and they sent me another email telling me thank you for removing the information.

That is about it :(

[Jan]

This might shed some light on it for you.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=210316

[amirk999]

Originally posted by Jan
This might shed some light on it for you.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=210316

Thanks,
looks like I will give popups a try.

[darkcurves]

Yeah man, looks like your account has been deleted.

[john874]

Sorry to hear about your deletion from Google Adsense.

[amirk999]

oh well,
I broke the ToS and I payed for it.
I think that I deserved this...

[darkcurves]

Originally posted by amirk999
oh well,
I broke the ToS and I payed for it.
I think that I deserved this...

:topic:

Is that your daughter? Which one is you?

[amirk999]

I only took pics :)
She is my neice :)
Her birthday was on the 22nd of November

[Wojtek]

Back on to google :)


I need to fill their tax sheets and send them back,
During the 'wich paperwork you need to fil wizard' it asks me if I have any activities in the US. My host is based in the USA. Is that considered as US activities or no?


"Activities include, but are not limited to, owning a web server or owning a hosting service in the U.S., or having employees in the U.S. who are involved in either:

setting up your web server, hosting service, or website "

But

"Generally, using an unrelated third-party United States (U.S.) web hosting service to host your web pages, renting web servers that are located in the U.S. from an unrelated third party, or having your payment sent to a U.S. Post Office Box or mail forwarding address, do not of themselves constitute U.S. Activities. "


So? Do I answer Yes or No to if i have US Activities :)

[darkcurves]

Yeah, this is a problem to me too.

[Canuckkev]

No, unless you want to pay US tax on your income. Read what it says, having a US based hosting provider does not include US Activities.

If, however, you own a "managed" server in the US, then you are in effect paying someone to manage your webserver, sort of entering the grey area...

But if you just have a hosting account, with a US based web server, then it isn't US Activites, so say NO.

[Wojtek]

Thanks :)