Comments on: Adgenta Blog Ads – First Impressions Review

By: Nabin

Nabin — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:51:19 +0000

I was wondering whether I can enroll on it from Nepal.

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By: Reina

Reina — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:15:12 +0000

Just get myself signup on adgenta. I’m not sure how well it will work out but thought why not give it a try. Great review! Appreciate it alot :)

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 02:36:48 +0000

Ho, Darren .. another one of the Qumana people here. Re: Adsense and other advertising service offers on the same blog page .. I found it kinda chuckle-inducing to see how Brad Feld, one of the better known VC's in the Web / Internet / RSS / content etc, area so blatantly flout that *rule*, by having Ads By Yahoo on the left-hand sidebar, and Ads By Gooooogle on the right-hand side. I suppose Google's TOS made him choose the right-hand side (just kidding;-) I don't think, personally, that Google's TOS can be enforced whatsoever when it comes to *contextual* advertising .. and certainly Brad doesn't seem to worried about losing his Google account ;-)

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[...] The WYSIWYG editing mode works well as does adding tags and trackbacks. Also being able to insert Adgenta ads into a post and customize their look on the run is handy if you want to go with them (although I still have a few reservations about using Adgenta personally and use other ads instead). [...]

By: Tara Kachaturoff

Tara Kachaturoff — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:29:49 +0000

I sent a letter to Google the other day. Received this in return (see paragraph 2)

Hello Tara,

We appreciate your following up in this matter. Please note that Google AdSense program policy does not permit Google ads to be published on the same web page as other contextually-targeted ads.

More broadly, our policy does not permit Google ads to be displayed on the same website as ads that mimic or attempt to be associated with Google ads. According to these program policies, AdGenta ads may be displayed on the same page as Google ads on your site. We do allow affiliate or limited-text links.

For publishers participating in AdSense for search, please note that we do not allow other search services or query-targeted ads to be displayed on the same site as AdSense for search.

Our intent with this policy is to be as fair to our advertisers as
possible and to maintain the integrity of the AdWords and AdSense
programs.

Thank you for your cooperation.

For additional questions, please visit our AdSense Support site at
https://www.google.com/support/adsense or feel free to reply to this email if I can be of further assistance.

We’d also like to encourage you to let us know how we can improve our customer support. Please take a few minutes to fill out our brief survey at http://www.insightexpress.com/s/Google.asp?uid=0&resetposition=true .

Your input is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Laura
The Google AdSense Team

By: Trigger

Trigger — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:44:12 +0000

I’m going to give the system a shot, as I downloaded it last night. But before I do, would like to know whether you can mix adgenta ads with adsense on the same site? Is it a wise option? Any advice here would be great.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:01:42 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone – particularly Tris and Arieanna for coming over and giving us some official words of advice.

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:05:16 +0000

I can’t comment for legal reasons about actual bid prices, but I can say philisophically Qumana wants bloggers to get the best deal we can. So the more bloggers we have the more leverage we have to get better prices. It’s a process and we are actively working it.

Oh and I meant to say that the 50/50 split is IN the TOS.

By: Drastic

Drastic — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:52:54 +0000

I came across qumana earlier this week when I was looking for a blogging client. They seemed pretty interesting, but I was disappointed to see that their ads come from miva.

Go to miva.com and search on your keywords – bids are pretty low for the keys I checked. You’ll be getting 50% of whatever adgenta gets from that bid.

Looks like an innovative product though, hope it works out for them. Maybe they can get other inventory as well..

By: Drastic

Drastic — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:52:09 +0000

I came across qumana earlier this week when I was looking for a blogging client. They seemed pretty interesting, but I was disappointed to see that their ads come through from.

Go to miva.com and search on your keywords – bids are pretty low for the keys I checked. You’ll be getting 50% of whatever adgenta gets from that bid.

Looks like an innovative product though, hope it works out for them. Maybe they can get other inventory as well..

By: Arieanna

Arieanna — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:07:05 +0000

Our smart and amazing developers are working hard on creating a mass-style function that will enable you to shift all styles at once without affecting keywords. Might take some development time ;)

By: Arieanna

Arieanna — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:18:53 +0000

Yep, thanks for the review. I am now totally awake. If any mac user out there wants to give us a shot, they can email us and we can provide a link – as of yet it’s not public, since we want to do more testing and work out the little wrinkles – such as the things you mention here!

As Tris notes, it’s a 50/50 split, and we’re happy with that. It was never actually “removed” from TOS. We were working out legal stuff right up to the last minute, so I actually (yes me) forgot to put it into the FAQ where you can so clearly see I had a mental placeholder! I think it went on one website and not the other.

Yes – you cannot mass remove. It’s a negative but also a positive. The ads themselves will change based on inventory surrounding the keywords, so they should continue to be profitable.

Re: AdSense – we are still doing investigations, but think we are ok. Any further individual inquiries can be made to AdSense by each user. For now :)

By: Tris Hussey

Tris Hussey — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:46:41 +0000

Darren,

As always a great and thorough review. I really appreciate your support, feedback, and questions.

I want to directly respond to the revenue split. In our Terms of Service we state that it is a 50/50 split (note to self … this might be something good for a FAQ entry). We’ll also be responding to Darren’s other questions and feedback in a blog post on the Qumana blog soon (http://blog.qumana.com/).

Tris

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:44:41 +0000

I found the problem why both Satish and I cannot see the ads. I am based in the Philippines, and I believe that Satish is India (based on his profile). It looks like Adgenta is sniffing IP addresses and not serving up the ads to third world countries (or at least not to selected countries). I say this because I also cannot see the advertising on his blog. However, if I use a proxy and go in with a US IP address, the ad is visible.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:36:04 +0000

i can see it Satish

By: Satish Talim

Satish Talim — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:14:11 +0000

I put the Adgenta ad in my blog post about 15 hours back, but the image link is still broken. I wrote to Tris Hussey of Adgenta who said he could see the image on my blog – that’s strange. Still trying to figure out the problem.

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:48:31 +0000

I just loaded Qumana and Adgent. I added the Agenta ad to one of my blogs that I don’t have any Adsense on it, so that I can see which system works best. I really like Quamana, because I have six blogs and now I can post to all them pretty quickly. I’m pretty familiar with blogger code, so I can add blockquotes if and when I need them. The real test will be when I use it on my popular blog-Christian Fiction.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:51:07 +0000

I will hold back on judging Adgenta. I will say, though…. I decided to give them a try, signed up for an account and put the Adgenta ad in my next blog post. Like EngLee, the link was broken. It appears that the Adgenta server is really overloaded right now. Everything on their site (except the sign-up) is moving very slow.

I will try it again in a few days and see if there is any improvement.

By: EngLee

EngLee — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:49:45 +0000

I’ve not get the chance to look at the AdGenta ads samples in Qumana blog. Those images were broken at the time I visited!