Comments on: Google Launch Ad Manager (an Ad Server)

By: steve

steve — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:23:14 +0000

I am perfectly willing to let others try this product and get the bugs worked out before I try using it. Besides as you said I am still in the adsense only stages of my blog. But I am getting better and learning more everyday with the help of forums like this
Thanks

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:52:17 +0000

He friend:
Someone has a real experience with admanager? I tested it but i thinks it is too slow to paused banner and delivery…

By: Free Blog Templates

Free Blog Templates — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:56:11 +0000

I’ve been using openx for over a year and it’s a better product feature & UI wise. Having said that, I’m in the process of migrating over to Google’s Ad Manager b/c I was paying over $100/month in hosting/bandwidth fees and the constant upgrades were a pain. All the logs take up a huge amount of space too.

What I love about Google Ad Manager:
-it’s free (will save me $1,200/year)
-their delivery network is the same as adsense (which means it’s reliable)
-the snippet code is minimal. openx is much larger

What I don’t like about Google Ad Manager:
-features are not as complete as openx. (over time they will improve so I can wait)
-Setup is a bit confusing the first time
-No ability to serve text ads. Right now it’s only images or rich media.

If you’ve got a small site don’t even bother with an ad server and just use adsense until you’ve got at least a few hundred unique visitors/day. By the time you’re ready to upgrade I’m sure Google Ad Manager will be much more mature.

~Dave

By: supersoemi

supersoemi — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:36:44 +0000

Is there anyone with google ad manager earns better than adsense? I’m still confused to be honest… will google ad manager automatically replace the ad-slot of adsense in our website, or it will take another space in our website to show the ad manager? please explain…

By: Raghu

Raghu — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:09:08 +0000

I was able to create Inventory and Orders with Line times and Creatives, but after generating the code, I couldn’t get it to work in Wordpress. I did insert the code from head into header file and places the script where ad has to appear, but still no luck.

If anyone has step by step instructions to make ad manger work in Wordpress, I would appreciate that.

By: العاب شمس الدين

العاب شمس الدين — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:04:15 +0000

oh ! i didn’t even know about it . I’ll give it a go . Thank you .

By: Nihar

Nihar — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:43:37 +0000

I know about google ad manager before but didn’t use it as it was in beta stage. Now that they have announced. I think i should give a try and see how it works out.

3 months back i used openx. but that made my site slower due to heavy traffic and also my site is hosted on shared hosting.

Here the ad management will sit on google servers(one of the best in the world). I think it won’t make the site slow.

BTW which ad management tool do you use?

By: Thiers

Thiers — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:50:02 +0000

Do you guyz know how are the advertisers billed with this system? I just can’t get it, i spent to whole day going up and down, reading the complet FAQ and so on, but i can’t get the answer to this.

Thanks for replying.

By: Fred F. McKinnon

Fred F. McKinnon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:33:44 +0000

Darren,
Wish I could jump on this – a few years ago, I got that dreaded email from Google that my account was terminated due to “invalid click activity”. I had no clue what was going on, begged and pleaded for some evidence, which of my sites, etc.

My appeal was futile, and although over the last 2-3 years I’ve occassionally emailed them a polite letter, showing how I’m still operating legitimate websites, haven’t tried “cheating the systems” by signing up a new account, etc., I’ve rec’d no response.

What can a guy do in this situation? I suspect the invalid click activity came from a domain I sold to a guy (who turned out to be a fraud), yet that domain was still “associated” w/ my Adsense account.

It’s disheartening, to say the least. Any advice?
For the Kingdom,
Fred McKinnon
http://www.fredmckinnon.com
http://www.theworshipcommunity.com

By: Richard Rinyai

Richard Rinyai — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:21:40 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I am completely confused with this product. The explanation in this post isn’t quite clear.

Please let me know how this works, as I checked the help pages, but still don’t understand.

Thanks,

Richard Rinyai
http://www.theprofessionalassistant.net

By: Bonie

Bonie — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:52:35 +0000

wow, love it…

all tools i have made by google now :D

By: FatFighter

FatFighter — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:06:37 +0000

Anyone know how this compares to a service like ScribeFire?

By: FFB

FFB — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:21:39 +0000

From what I’m reading this sounds interesting. I tried digging around last night actually. I couldn’t get my head around it. I dunno. I need to see a better tutorial than the one Google provides. I got lost when they talked about uploading a CSV file.

I’d love to earnestly try it out but right now it’s beyond me.

By: super blogger

super blogger — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:05:34 +0000

I hope it will give us more opportunity to generate income..
My adsense is far from minimum payment..

By: make money online

make money online — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:07:05 +0000

It is a good news that ad manager service is free and I think am very primitive to think about ad manager as I dont have decent traffic to my blogs. Thanks

By: "Motivate Thyself"

"Motivate Thyself" — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:18:42 +0000

I don’t think I’m ready to tackle ad manager quite yet but when the time comes I’ll be glad to know about it. Thanks for the tip.

By: Markus Jais

Markus Jais — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:07:53 +0000

Definitely sounds interesting. I’ve just startet using AdSense and so far I like it.
The Ad Manager might be exactly what I am looking for, but I will probably wait to the final release and until I’ve read some more reviews of people who have tried it.

By: Moise Levi

Moise Levi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:49:23 +0000

I removed Adsense.

Google’s robots decided to call me a “splog”.
I post often , that is what traders do (stock market).
I have over 2500 posts, and pretty decent traffic.
I use to blog on Geocities, then moved to Blogger in 2006.
Been posting since 1998 !
Calling me a “splog” after 16 awards, appeared on TV (for my comments) ……they call me a “splog” ???

Financial coaching makes me enough money ….. no need to help a company that calls me a “splog”

By: James

James — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:43:52 +0000

It’s sad how less you care about privacy. Maybe if I’ve received those amounts of money like you from the big G, I would think like you.
But know I can not understand how you as a rich man trade privacy against a simple tool you already own in a more privacy saving program.

You all will be sorry one day, when G. grows to a big menace.

Always remember: Bad codes grow tall…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:24:44 +0000

I originally applied for the beta test, Google got back to me at the time and I had just missed the cutoff.

Going to have to give this a look in as I need to setup advertising across 5 different websites and it likely fits the bill.