Comments on: Engadget – 5 Adsense Adblocks Per page

By: Arun

Arun — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:23:20 +0000

Perhaps if anyone cared to read about the “Premium AdSense” program Google offers to large publilshers, This little spat wouldn’t have started in the first place.

I think its more than fair to say that the Weblogs, Inc. network receives more than 20 million+ content page views a month.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:44:40 +0000

I saw 6 on the front page tonight.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:20:15 +0000

My that Dave gets around a bit :)

By: Andre Fiebig

Andre Fiebig — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:31:51 +0000

Actually I can not see any Adsense-ad on Engadget.

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:05:37 +0000

I personally don’t like engadget either they steal stories about gadgets form sites and calm that some guy name “Dave” found it

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:01:30 +0000

Hehe. Maybe.

By: Cellounge Admin

Cellounge Admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:10:25 +0000

Dave and Jason are probably best friends who call each other everyday just to see how much buzz they can create about their blogs. End of story.

By: Comic Strip Blogger

Comic Strip Blogger — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:00:09 +0000

I think that it is issue between Calacanis/WeblogsInc and Google and that other people should not feel overly righteous and shouldn’t whine about it.

And I am not fan of Calacanis: he is nasty person, who spreads lies about me and even stolen one of my comic strips – removed copyright text and placed it without links on his server.

But still I think that in this issue Calacanis should not be attacked. It’s internal issue between Calacanis and Google. Calacanis shouldn’t be forced to disclose private agreements. We must respect privacy for god’s sake!

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:49:09 +0000

It was interesting that Dave Naylor said something along the lines of ‘heck if I had 6 ad blocks on a page I’d be making $1m a year with AdSense’.

Not strictly true though, as often clickthru goes up with less ads on a page.

I can understand having more ads on a page with lots and lots of content on one page, spread out, but I would wonder at the effectiveness of the contextual ads, and generally would prefer a lower volume of more highly-targeted content per page.

For me, 3 ad blocks is plenty. I actually reduced it to 2 on my personal blog as it was getting too crowded and not worth the space.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:25:08 +0000

Interesting in that 5 ad units is getting close to overkill. I’m more surprised that they are doing it from a ‘annoying-your-regulars’ view point.

But I guess if your main priority is chasing the money, anything goes.

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By: duncan

duncan — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:15:24 +0000

I’m think he has a private agreement with Google, its just disappointing that it obviously seems to include a privacy clause that prevents him from speaking about it.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:20:04 +0000

The standard line we’re all receiving from Jason is:

My official statement:

If you would like information on Google Adsense running on our sites please contact Google’s press or Adsense departments. I can assure you we are not violating any terms with them.

I can not discuss the issue beyond on that.

But he has also taken some time out to answer specific issues.

I got the line, and I never actually accused Jason of breaking Google TOS – I’ve just been following it here and there.