Comments on: Give your Feedback for Google about Adsense – They’re Listening

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:06:01 +0000

I’ve been extemely patient with Adsense to no avail. They cancelled my account for no reason that I can determine. After multiple emails from them that contained zero information, they finally stopped responding. Most of the email responses from them were similar to the following. They have yet to tell me when these supposed invalid clicks happened, so how am I supposed to track down the person who likely went to my website and started clicking on the ads.

In fact, they don’t follow their own procedures, e.g., working with publishers, as they claim on their own blogsite.

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2005/08/keeping-your-account-alive-and-well.html

“As previously noted, we have confirmed invalid clicks occurred on the Google ads on your site. As you know, we solicited you for any additional information to better understand the nature of your traffic and
incorporate this information into our re-review of your account
termination. After thoroughly re-reviewing your account with this
additional information, we found we are unable to reinstate your account.

“Though you may be disappointed with our decision, please understand we are acting in the best interests of our advertisers.”

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:34:03 +0000

I’d like an option whereby if there are no ads to serve, and you haven’t/don’t want to provide an alternative colour or adverts, then it just ‘closes the gap’ – this would need to be an option otherwise it could mess up areas where the ad block forms part of the page structure. It would be useful where ads are served mid- or post-article.

By: JErm

JErm — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:05:16 +0000

I’ve so far had good impressions of Google AdSense support team. They’ve provided me useful information, they even took the time to answer my stupid questions. I got my first check last week. My only complaint would be that it takes so long for the check to actually get here. Don’t most mails only take a week tops to deliver, even internationally? Also if they could widen their direct electronic transfer support for South Asian countries it would be nice (nicer for me at least, but I’m sure there’s a few hundred/thousand others that would agree). One last thing. On specific blog posts I get irrelevant ads. I’m guessing my sidebar links has a lot to do with it. It would be nice if AdSense only try to match their ads with blocks of text instead of every single word including outgoing links, etc. I think that would improve contextuality (sp?) and better value for both the advertiser and the publisher. Thank you! :)

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:37:54 +0000

Jade, that’s odd. I wonder how many Mainstream sites have obituary sections and put googleads on – I guess it depends which site you get approved the first time, as there appear to be few restrictions on what other sites you can put your code on afterwards.

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By: Jade Walker

Jade Walker — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:07:45 +0000

I applied for Google’s Adsense twice and was turned down both times:

“We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below. If
you are able to resolve these issues, please feel free to reply to this
email for reconsideration when you have made the changes.

Issues:

– Unacceptable site content”

Apparently, memorializing the dead with obituaries is unacceptable. Despite the fact that my blog has received positive writeups in USA Today, MSNBC, The Miami Herald and various other media markets, and receives more than 5,000 visitors a day, I’m still unable to utilize this service. So, I switched to Blogads, which to date, has not let me down.

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:18:50 +0000

I would like to personally thank Google for always paying me on time!!

Keep up the good work!!

Angela ;-)

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:14:18 +0000

I’d love for the people at Adsense to talk to the people in the engine rankings dept.

Adsense offers up 100% accuracy with the Ads it serves my pages, yet my rankings on key search phrases is poor. Seems like the Adsense side can work out exactly what my site is about, yet seems to struggle putting my site into a relevant search engine query result.

I’d also love a bit more control over the ad layout, to enable easier integration into particular sections of the site.

By: badrad

badrad — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:12:16 +0000

I 2nd most of whats been said, particularly the online payment systems (direct deposit, paypal, etc.) and lower payment threshhold.

Also, the Adsense for content javascript is not compatable with XHTML sent with the XHTML+XML mimetype. There is a workaround available, but it would be better if Google’s code handled it.

And definitely better communication, that is probably Adsense’s worst point.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:47:11 +0000

I’ve heard that in India there are “sweatshops” where, for a fee, you can have 100 people click continuously on your ads. This must be very visible to Google.

By: duncan

duncan — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 04:00:16 +0000

Communications and transparency are my two issues. Unfortuntely like a lot of Google at the moment their speed in communicating in response to emails etc is slow. Transparency when it comes to kicking people off the program, I’ve heard horror stories all over the place when it comes to this one. I understand and respect that click fraud is a serious problem but Google has to consider that sometimes its not the fault of the blog owner. Thankfully I’ve not had any major problems myself but imagine having a good month and Google shutting your account and you losing all your money, and you Darren have got a bigger exposure then the rest of us combined.

One last point in relation to Lonewacko’s comments, I agree, they’ve still got some work to do on ad delivery, I’ve found that on some sites the ads deliver “blog” content because they are on a blog but not actually the topic of the blog.

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:43:31 +0000

Great site!

By: Tony E

Tony E — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:01:54 +0000

I like the idea of putting Froogle ads/products, similar to pricegrabber storefronts. I’m sure Google has already thought of the Advertising Podcast model, and I bet we’ll see that soon.

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Make Money Online - The Internet Income Blog — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:37:41 +0000

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By: Shai Coggins

Shai Coggins — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:31:10 +0000

1) PayPal and/or other online ways to get paid.

2) Option to have lower payment thresholds (for those who want it, esp. when/if online payments become available).

3) RSS Feeds Ads availability to more publishers.

4) Relevance and customisation of RSS Feeds Ads.

5) Easier communication.

6) Make sure that cases like the one mentioned by “soul” can’t be easily done. Although I’m not sure how often that sort of thing happens.

7) AdSense availability for podcasts and video. This is probably a long way off, but still a good thing to consider as early as now.

By: The Lonewacko Blog

The Lonewacko Blog — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:36:58 +0000

Completely unrelated to Adsense, it would be nice if google could understand a bit better what sites are about. The linked blog covers a wide range of subjects, but most of the posts are political. I also post (what I consider) humor occasionally and some celebrity stuff. This month out of my top 10 search terms 8 deal with celebrites and only one with the more important topic of my site. To a certain extent that’s because the former gets more searches than the latter, but it’s also because most newspapers don’t have those search phrases but with the political matters I’ve got all the same words they do and I get outranked by newspaper stories.

And, yesterday Drudge was linking to a story about strange doings on a farm in Washington. I really wanted to post about that, but I also felt constrained a bit because I didn’t want adsense to end up thinking that because of that one post my site was about those doings. Perhaps there could be a way to say “don’t take this page into account when targetting the other pages at this site.”

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:18:12 +0000

The paypal payments would be nice.
More customisations/integration options for the adsense for search would be nice. At the moment you have very few options :(

By: The Lonewacko Blog

The Lonewacko Blog — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:43:45 +0000

I’ve tried Adwords and I really had to work to fit what I wanted to say into so few characters. Providing an option to have a wider formatted ad with more text might help with those Adsense sites that displayed the ads.

I second the PayPal bit.

While targetting seems to generally work, if the word “blog” appears multiple times on a blog mainly about technology or a non-blog subject, please take that into account and don’t just show blogging-related ads. Of course, allowing people to filter in or out keywords would lead to massive abuse, so perhaps they could do that transparently.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:34:27 +0000

I would really like to see a different method of javascript. It makes google ads harder to track and deploy along with other ads. I would be happy to put a bit of code on each of my pages to help improve the ad placement but I would also like to use it with my current banner software.

So more “deployment” options.

By: Felix

Felix — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:55:29 +0000

Maybe a client side app with settings or stats and graphs from google itself would be nice. And other ways to implement the ads indeed. :)