Adsense - 'Advertise On This Site'

[Lee_Owen]

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Can someone advise whether I should have this switched off or not? am I right in thniking that clicks go out the window when this is enabled and it instead turns to cheapy CPM?

[smn2]

Hi

I've switched it off for my sites, as it's one more opportunity
to NOT click on the adsense ads if you don't.

So I recommend that you switch it off

Steve

[Lee_Owen]

Thanks, I turned it off and it may have worked, I put adsense on my main MB page and was hoping for an additional £1000 to £1500 a year from it without doing anything extra but it dipped after a few days. Google claim analytics when in reality you can read bugger all from the stats. Useless - it can't even tell you if it changes to CPM. Perhaps I should have left it a month...

24 September 2006 10,383 13 0.13% USD0.67 USD6.96
25 September 2006 21,327 18 0.08% USD0.60 USD12.81
26 September 2006 17,593 13 0.07% USD0.44 USD7.75
27 September 2006 16,895 15 0.09% USD0.60 USD10.22
28 September 2006 12,187 7 0.06% USD0.30 USD3.66
29 September 2006 12,751 2 0.02% USD0.16 USD2.00
30 September 2006 16,780 11 0.07% USD0.09 USD1.45
01 October 2006 11,973 10 0.08% USD0.19 USD2.32
02 October 2006 14,779 13 0.09% USD0.43 USD6.39

Today looks better so I'll keep it switched off, hopefully I can double the amounts above with a few more articles a week. Small reward but better than without.

[smn2]

Hi,

Erm, I'm not sure it's allowed in Google's terms and conditions for you to
publish that info. Lee_owen. As you have done so, I would say that
your CTR is hideously bad! Is there nothing you can do to encourage a
higher click-thru-rate? (That would be better than removing
the 'advertise on this site' link for sure.)

Steve

[befuddle]

I've included Adsense on my pages for a week to see what the fuss was about. Despite putting the adverts at the foot of the page, it has a 0.9CTR and I'm surprised at the revenue received. It pays for my morning coffee

I was slightly concerned about this. To be honest if anybody clicks on any of the Adsense ads, then my site is not delivering what the user wants.

Though, if you are going to have churn you may as well make money out of it.

[Lee_Owen]

Hi,

Erm, I'm not sure it's allowed in Google's terms and conditions for you to
publish that info. Lee_owen. As you have done so, I would say that
your CTR is hideously bad! Is there nothing you can do to encourage a
higher click-thru-rate? (That would be better than removing
the 'advertise on this site' link for sure.)

Steve

So google doesn't allow me to share what I earn through adsense? Well they can either let me share data or I'll use someone else, bugger 'em. Nazis. And yes the CTR may be poor but I run a sports site, nothing sells.

[Lee_Owen]

I've included Adsense on my pages for a week to see what the fuss was about. Despite putting the adverts at the foot of the page, it has a 0.9CTR and I'm surprised at the revenue received. It pays for my morning coffee

I was slightly concerned about this. To be honest if anybody clicks on any of the Adsense ads, then my site is not delivering what the user wants.

Though, if you are going to have churn you may as well make money out of it.

That site delivers what the user wants and needs, a message board to read.

The CTR may be bad but it's only on the index page, not on the MB posts, I placed it on a few articles I wrote last month as well. It's difficult to get adsense to work in the way it should work because contextually google is crap because the links and wording on the site I have is laden with irrelevent gambling crap that I have no control over so both cancel each other out to a certain degree.

[renegade]

Where is the option to switch this off please?

[Lee_Owen]

Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive of Google, speaking at the Conservative conference right now just said the internet is about making information freely available, so if google has a problem then they can speak to him.

[mikey_freedom]

Lee. I think they adopt the 'Divide and Conquer' philosophy working on the assumption that if no one knows what anyone else is getting per click and clicks per 1000 imprs then no one will be able to do the sums and complain that they're worse off. Suggest scrubbing the imprs or CTR % figures if you post stats again. That seems to be the common way for people to do it on sitepoint et al when they are trying to flog a site where its revenue is from adsense.

Joe - to turn off onsite advertiser signup go to MyAccount / Account Settings / Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up : click on edit and turn it off

[renegade]

to turn off onsite advertiser signup go to MyAccount / Account Settings / Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up : click on edit and turn it off

Thanks mikey!

[srcudlipp]

Joe - to turn off onsite advertiser signup go to MyAccount / Account Settings / Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up : click on edit and turn it off

Cheers for that - didn't know you could turn the pesky thing off!

[altyfc]

Are there any incentives for having that 'advertise' thing there?

For instatnce, if someone clicks on it, and the clicker then goes on and starts an AdWords campaign, does the AdSense publisher get rewarded for that?

If not, I guess I need to go and switch it off also...

Aaron

[drivetowin]

Lee

I know you don't like it, but if you don't want Google to close your Adsense account in which case you will sacrifice the dollars you have earned I would edit your post to remove the figures pronto - it is definitely against Google's Adsense terms and conditions to discuss earnings or CTR.

[Lee_Owen]

Lee

I know you don't like it, but if you don't want Google to close your Adsense account in which case you will sacrifice the dollars you have earned I would edit your post to remove the figures pronto - it is definitely against Google's Adsense terms and conditions to discuss earnings or CTR.

I couldn't care less, thanks anyway, I stopped letting people bully me around years ago, if more people stood up for themselves, companies like google wouldn't be able to bully people today. I refer you to what their Chief Exec said and I'll do the same to them, what idiot says you can't share data like this?

I've not included the site, nor keywords nor pages, there's no data that can be gleamed from that which could affect anything, stand up to them and others like them, don't be bullied into staying quiet, that's what america tries to do to everyone.

the internet is about making information freely available

Eric Schmidt - Chief Exec, Google. 03-10-06