Comments on: AdSense Survey Questions – Have your Say Here

By: Today’s Tidbits - 21 June 2006

Today’s Tidbits - 21 June 2006 — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:21:44 +0000

[...] Problogger.net has parts of the survey questions sent out by Google AdSense to select group of publishers, specifically the parts about new capabilities and site targeting. [...]

By: Elle

Elle — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:20:03 +0000

Aww, I wasn’t sent it. I’ve been thinking about wishing to choose advertisers better, because a lot of handbag advertisers are knockoff sellers. A reader of a friends’ blog started a discussion from a complaint on this.

People can think we endorse the ads, apparently, so I’ve just been pondering the issue. Does being a handbag blogger mean we’re shady, too? I’m off topic now, though. :-)

By: eSearing

eSearing — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:39:22 +0000

Control over the categories of Ads and the advertisers would be wonderful.
I would also like to see interstitial keyword ads that where I can choose the keywords.
And of course a WP plugin to manages it all.

By: El Hakeem

El Hakeem — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:20:42 +0000

I think they missed out on two of the more desirable improvements to the current program.

First is the perennial problem of ads that have no relation whatsover to the content of the site. My website for example, offers news and comment affairs commentary and analysis. I have been unpleasantly astonished to see ads for Tibetan mysticism, New Age potions and all manner of spiritual thingamabobs. Publishers should be able to intervene somehow when off-theme ads appear- not least because if such ads have no appeal to your audience, you are losing money by displaying them.

Secondly, I think those text-only ads are mighty old-fashioned and ugly. My site has both AdSense and Amazon ads. Alas the Amazon ads yield very little. But the combination of text descriptions and colorful thumbnails makes them so much more visually appealing than the bland AdSense ads on the same page (see the contrast on the sidebar of http://www.amusis.com). These mixed text-and-graphic ads should be added to the current menu of text only, image only or video.

http://www.amusis.com

By: TechLowdown

TechLowdown — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 04:59:21 +0000

>>Managing other publishers’ AdSense accounts for them

That’s the one I found most interesting, because it makes me wonder where they’re going with that.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:13:44 +0000

Rob
you sooooo need a bigger monitor…that screenshot is what 640×480?

By: Simone

Simone — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:13:09 +0000

Yessssss, I want to be able to choose advertisers and/or choose categories!!

I don’t think there’s that many ads available in my ‘niche’, but I’d sometimes rather have none than ads about hotels, las vegas and rss feeds (I blog about events in Perth, Aus, mainly for people living here!)
I don’t even mention hotels in any of my posts, but still they are the ads I get most!
I blogged about Cirque Soleil coming to Perth in 2007(!!) a week or so ago, and still now half the ads on the site are about Cirque, and a lot of them relate to their shows in Vegas, now use whatsoever!!

Anyway, that’s my rant for the day!! :D

Simone

p.s. I didn’t get the survey, what a shame! I love surveys :D

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:45:41 +0000

I’d love to be able to choose advertisers. I’d especially like to be able to get all the fat-burner, lose weight quick ads off of my tea site, regardless of whether they might be good money makers.

By: danae

danae — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:31:04 +0000

Paying for AdWords out of AdSense would be really useful for me — on a small budget, it’s a great way to alleviate cash flow when you can just transfer the money over.

By: cristian

cristian — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 23:16:26 +0000

1.- Gathering information about your visitors

2.- Allow advertisers to see how their ads perform specifically on your site

By: Darren McLaughlin

Darren McLaughlin — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:36:12 +0000

I would definitely say: “Paying for phone support” is not an option I’d be interested in.

By: Squirrelinabox

Squirrelinabox — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:18:00 +0000

You wanted google porn ads? You got ‘em http://www.almosttruenews.com/index.php/2006/04/25/google-announces-pornwords-and-pornsense/ :)

By: Rob Elam

Rob Elam — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:23:23 +0000

I asked for Porn Ads… is that bad.
http://www.selfstarterops.com/files/googlsurvey.gif

By: TwoMillionSubsribers

TwoMillionSubsribers — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:06:41 +0000

I have read them, a lot of people in digitalpoint forum talked about that.