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Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by tbirdz »

tunesmith wrote: post #135

I have a site where I earn a few cents per month from AdSense. It was getting close to $100, where it would have been auto-deposited into my bank account. It was basically set and forget, so I hadn't logged in for a while. I got an email that my account had been deactivated for not being an active user, and my "between $50 and $100" was being sent to my state government as an unclaimed fund. So now I have to fill out…

You might not have to spend that money on a notary after all. My bank offers free notary services for all its account holders, and it seems like most banks offer this service as well. Try contacting your bank and see if you can save the $12.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by Sir_Substance »

ksk wrote: post #167
Sir_Substance wrote: post #165

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>You will still not make any revenue unless your audience is interested in content that is shallow, vapid and limited in scope. That's total garbage. Correct game theory when making monetized content for profit is to have it spread as widely as possible. Whether it's good quality or even factually correct is vastly less important than that it be spread widely, quickly. The goal is not to get people to read the conten…

You have a curious way to call my point "garbage" and then proceed to agree with me. You must have parsed it in some odd manner.

I guess I thought you were saying that if an audience wasn't into that sort of thing, the site that originally attracted them wouldn't want to alienate them by dropping the quality pieces. But it doesn't really matter what a sites audience is interested in, if the site is hopping on the ad train they'll want to move to shallow and vapid as rapidly as possible. Certainly that's what happened to wired (and time).

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by daminimal »

oneloop wrote: post #41
spiderfarmer wrote: post #9

According to their terms, Google can cancel any account at any time without having to offer an explanation. They also have a history of not replying to publisher problems at all. The whole 'Official' Adsense forum is run by volunteers and it's near impossible to speak to a real person. Even if they are hacked and thousands of accounts are cancelled I don't think Google will respond. I would so, so love to see a big p…

Aren't people like Appnexus and Openx alternatives? What am I missing?

Also, there is a smaller alternative called Adcash that won many business awards in Estonia last year.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by t0pz »

niij wrote: post #107
t0pz wrote: post #75

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Re point 2: I get where you're coming from. The fact is, that margins on ads are incredibly small. Additionally, the % of people clicking on an ad is understandably low. Usually you get a CTR of 0.3% to 0.6% which for smaller, unpopular content providers isn't much. However, it is often just about enough to make ends meet. The problem is that low popularity is not enough to make anything additional or to even call it…

Which large company (outside the advertising industry, including Google) relies solely on Internet advertising for their income?

i never made the claim that any large company relies solely on internet advertising for their income...?

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by noxToken »

mahranch wrote: post #169
noxToken wrote: post #116

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You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Written content was either managed by major news outlets or by hobbyists. I can still remember reading many blogs in 2009/2010 by hobbyist who just wanted to spread their experience with the hobby or craft. Most had no advertising. Those that did had the small, occasional unobtrusive banner ad. All of the links to follow were to other blogs by those who proved to the writer t…

> I can still remember reading many blogs in 2009/2010 by hobbyist who just wanted to spread their experience with the hobby or craft. Most had no advertising. Those that did had the small, occasional unobtrusive banner ad. All of the links to follow were to other blogs by those who proved to the writer that their blogs were topical and without cruft. You make it sound like every hobby website wasn't out to make mone…

I was speaking strictly about blog sites not forums. Frost is the New Black[0] is one such site that's cruft free and about the hobby. Granted, it's now defunct, but it's an example of what I mean. Big Bear Butt[1] is another.

Sites like the one you mention have always existed. I was part of a major video content forum back in the mid 00s, and even we had the flashy ads with a circle of affiliates like Shoosh, Kill Some Time, etc. I'm not so naive to think that the '09 web was a place without obtrusive ads and small, optimized web pages.

[0]: https://frostisthenewblack.wordpress.com/ [1]: https://thebigbearbutt.com/

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by relix »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #170
relix wrote: post #5

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Accounts are actually cancelled so no, that's not it.

It's entirely possible that a scammer would exploit a real large-scale cancellation by sending zillions of fake cancellation messages. In fact, that would make the scam work better. If the intended victim a) has an AdSense account and b) has heard of the (real) cancellations, he's probably going to be much more likely to click on the fake cancellation message.

Good point, nicely thought out.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by drdeca »

pc86 wrote: post #140
coderdude wrote: post #139

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It's getting hard to tell the difference between sarcasm and real opinions on here.

Let's not forget folks, a company wanting you to use its platform is "atrocious" now.

A company wanting nearly all internet usage to be through them would be, I think.

It's kind of different than just wanting a product to be used.

The question is whether this is what they want. It seems like something similar may be.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by niij »

t0pz wrote: post #175
niij wrote: post #107

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Which large company (outside the advertising industry, including Google) relies solely on Internet advertising for their income?

i never made the claim that any large company relies solely on internet advertising for their income...?

> The large corporations/companies certainly notice it, but they can sustain themselves although they are the ones fighting back the most, since they have the resources.

Re: Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts

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Post by djhn »

x0x0 wrote: post #142
djhn wrote: post #73

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Since you seem to know the industry well, what are the top resources (of any kind) to study the current state of online advertising for an advanced audience? Both from the technical side, and from the advertiser's business side. At a level that you would ideally know and learn if you were working as an executive in the industry.

I actually wrote a 10 page article on this for an internal audience. If people are interested I could clean it up and post it somewhere. Otherwise, the knowledge is scattered over blogs, ad exchanger, etc.

That would be great! I'd be happy with any version, email is in my profile.
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