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Re: Google AdSense leak?

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Post by voicereasonish »

DoubleMalt wrote: post #15
birken wrote: post #9

Let's think about this logically. Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000/month, Google is making $2,352/month from that account. So by banning the account, they are making $5,000 one-time, and losing $2,352/month forever. No company is stupid enough to do that. However, considering a site making $5,000 or $10,000/month is generating quite a few clicks, I think it makes perfec…

This not necessarily the case. Most advertisers will have fixed budgets to spend on AdSense. Under this assumption banning a publisher would not diminish the revenue stream but just diverting the ads to other not yet banned publishers. That doesn't mean the scheme as described is true, but it's not as obviously stupid as your first paragraph makes it seem.

Also obviously if Google reduces the pool of adsense publishers, the money is more likely to be spent advertising on Google properties, and Google will take 100% of that, rather than 32%.

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Post by baby »

Happened to someone I know back in 2005 I think, he lost 2 months of payment, and it was a lot of money. But he had some erotic videos on his website so... mostly his fault.

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Post by camus2 »

ewillbefull wrote: post #17

Funny; back in 2010 this exact thing happened to a company I worked at. The day before payout (for the previous month ) our AdSense account was banned. So we lost 2 months worth of ad revenue. They completely ignored all of our emails and we had to move to another ad provider immediately.

that happened to me , now i dont know if there is a wide scale scam or it was just a "bug" but they banned me for no reason and of course no way to appeal.And they owed me quite a lot.I moved to some other ad service,it pays less but i still get my money.

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Post by IanDrake »

owlmanatt wrote: post #18
birken wrote: post #9

Let's think about this logically. Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000/month, Google is making $2,352/month from that account. So by banning the account, they are making $5,000 one-time, and losing $2,352/month forever. No company is stupid enough to do that. However, considering a site making $5,000 or $10,000/month is generating quite a few clicks, I think it makes perfec…

> Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000/month, Google is making $2,352/month from that account. The publisher (ie your website showing ads) isn't the one paying them that money; they aren't losing any recurring revenue by banning them. Since they're Google AdSense, it's very likely that they have plenty of new signups to show those ads on.

You might be thinking about it wrong. A site that generates $5K a month is worth way more than some Mommy blog that just started hosting ads.

I assure you, if you wrote a report that targeted your highest earning affiliates, gave them the toss, and replaced them with poor performing newbies you would lose money.

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Post by 1qaz2wsx3edc »

birken wrote: post #9

Let's think about this logically. Google takes 32% of every adsense click [1], so assuming an account makes $5,000/month, Google is making $2,352/month from that account. So by banning the account, they are making $5,000 one-time, and losing $2,352/month forever. No company is stupid enough to do that. However, considering a site making $5,000 or $10,000/month is generating quite a few clicks, I think it makes perfec…

Is it just me or has it been witch hunting season as of late?
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