Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
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Re: Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
#2On a side note, google should definitely get its act together related to customer service. I have heard so many horror stories about google's indifferent/insignificant customer service lately.
Re: Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
#3It's because visitors from those sites are worthless. They may click on the ads, but they aren't going to buy anything and even if they do, the conversion rate is so low that the advertisers get mad at Google.
Re: Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
#4It's because visitors from those sites are worthless. They may click on the ads, but they aren't going to buy anything and even if they do, the conversion rate is so low that the advertisers get mad at Google.
I fail to see how Google mispricing impressions is the fault of the Hizook admin.
Google already modifies the payout on clickthrough using a completely opaque system. If that system cannot handle traffic spikes, they shouldn't be defaulting to banning the Adsense account, they should just throttle inventory.
Re: Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
#5What's crap is that AdSense's TOS say that you can't run someone else's context- or content-sensitive ads. So you can't run both AdSense and whatever Yahoo/Bing/whoever has. If you could, stuff like this would be a great boon, not an automatic circuit breaker that cut you off.
Re: Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
#6On a side note, google should definitely get its act together related to customer service. I have heard so many horror stories about google's indifferent/insignificant customer service lately.
especially in the instances where they've taken over companies that previously had, at the least, decent support.
in postini's web administration panel, there are certain actions that require you to contact support to be done. now that google owns them and you have to contact google, it's a long, painful process.
Re: Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
#7On a side note, google should definitely get its act together related to customer service. I have heard so many horror stories about google's indifferent/insignificant customer service lately.
especially in the instances where they've taken over companies that previously had, at the least, decent support. in postini's web administration panel, there are certain actions that require you to contact support to be done. now that google owns them and you have to contact google, it's a long, painful process.
we should just make this post top news at HN for as long as we can.. hopefully someone at google will notice it...
Re: Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
#8It's because visitors from those sites are worthless. They may click on the ads, but they aren't going to buy anything and even if they do, the conversion rate is so low that the advertisers get mad at Google.
That does not excuse Google's behavior in any way.
The most amazing to me is that it's now Thursday, and Google has not responded. Even if they don't like humans, they could have automatically detected by now that the traffic is due to the links.
Don't they have this thing called pagerank that computes exactly that? Another example of the left hand not talking to the right hand (and not caring).
Re: Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
#9Has anyone ever fronted up to Google and ask to see some customer service there?
Over the past few months there have been a number of stories about Google's bad customer service particularly in relation to the AdSense/etc programs, so I'm curious if anyone has been brave/silly enough to try.
Re: Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
#10On a side note, google should definitely get its act together related to customer service. I have heard so many horror stories about google's indifferent/insignificant customer service lately.
Side note to your side note:
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-kills-anti...
There are plenty more like that. I've also noticed a tendency to adsense account holders to avoid talking about issues in public because this may 'rock the boat'.