From Patrick Kelly, Colorado, USA:
My favorite PPC Search Engine is Google Adsense for sure. Well, for one, I have had the best results with them thus far. They target keywords great, they have more advertisers than any other PPC Engine, they are clean and easy to use, and they are Google. Their support is amazing; their responses are quick and clear. Google is an amazing business. They come out with new things all the time that surprise me, and they are simply taking over the web. I am not surprised that they are my favorite PPC engine. However, I will leave you will my suggestions to improve:
-The issue of people being banned. I have seen some people get banned and there is no way that Google tells you how/when/where/what. They leave you with basically no info. What if it was a wrongful ban?
-Smartpricing: Can we get more details on exactly how they determine the effect of certain niche’s and what price to drop clicks, etc?
-More ad layout options. I think people should be able to pretty much customize and ad however they want. Of course, the ad layouts are dependant on the advertisers words themselves, but possible allow the user to customize it based off what ads are showed. Maybe even base what ads are shown off what layout is given (size/length/etc.)
I have more, but I will stick with that for now. Google, keep up the good work!
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June 15, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Banning sux :-/ I feel the pain!!!
June 15, 2007 at 4:41 pm
it has always been
June 15, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I dont think anyone turns off javascript. But after someone clicks on a few adsense links they learn that they are ads and are less likely to click them in the future.
June 15, 2007 at 4:39 pm
wow the font gets sooo tiny when you nest 15 comments.
June 15, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I guess not
June 15, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I didnt even read your post dude…buy yourself some clothes! =)
June 15, 2007 at 1:29 pm
I have several blogs on varied topics, written by three people. AdSense is next to worthless on all of them. These are sites with good content and an honest effort put into execution.
A thousand people can come through in a day and no one clicks. They’re blind, at least to my stuff. (No doubt I could be better at design and placement, but the numbers are just awful.)
June 15, 2007 at 1:17 pm
On that note, why wasn’t this writer smart enough to include a link to his website and get a free, trusted, high pr backlink?
June 15, 2007 at 12:46 pm
My guess is that they are just becoming more and more blind to the ads. In all of my days consulting and supporting I can’t remember ever coming across a client who’s purposely disabled javascript.
June 15, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Either people are becoming blind to those AdSense ads or they’re actually turning off javascript in their browser.
June 15, 2007 at 12:38 pm
There are plenty of AdSense competitors–try Yahoo! Publisher Network…or Adbrite or? Isn’t MSN coming out with their own, too? And won’t ASK.com have one soon?
June 15, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Yea, if only they could come up with just a few more options. Or maybe just revamp the whole thing. Because I do think many people are starting to become “blind” to them.
June 15, 2007 at 11:05 am
on that note, are all shoes readers 12?
June 15, 2007 at 10:24 am
On that note, who’s humming?
June 15, 2007 at 8:35 am
Good info, Patrick. Yes, I would like to see a bit more imagination when it comes to ad size. I would like to see something that is between a 468×60 and 234×60, maybe 350×60 — a size I could use for some of my headers.
June 15, 2007 at 12:26 am
On that note, how are their keywords great?
June 15, 2007 at 12:19 am
Yea I agree with the ad formats. That would allow many of us to greatly increase our returns. However i’m sure they have those restrictions in place to begin with for those of us who like to abuse the system.
It does bother me how google doesn’t give explanations for being banned… kind of scares me.
June 14, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Nice read, keep them coming! But honestly adsense needs a new competitor.
June 14, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Yeah, Google wrote me one of those nasty, cut it out letter a couple of weeks ago. I know what I was doing wrong but I just had to try my luck.
I see the whole bird-chest thing Patrick Kelly doing as good marketing. Who could forget that picture? lol
June 14, 2007 at 3:56 pm
on that note, who is this clown anyway?
June 14, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Yeah, I hate when Google threatens with a letter. I got one of those once. I had to figure out what they didn’t like on my own, and this it was still just a guess. I suppose I got it right because they didn’t ban me.
June 14, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Regarding smart pricing: we probably won’t get a lot of more information about it, as the more info they give out the more chances people will have to “game” it. It’s algorithm-based and I don’t think they’ll give out any more info about it soon.
With Google acquisition of Doubleclick, most likely we’ll see more opportunities for more types of ads.
June 14, 2007 at 2:59 pm
The banning issue is huge with me (was wrongfully banned and the only info I got was “we’ve double checked and there were invalid clicks”) but your point about competition is a very good one. There’s no way for us to know how much of a cut their taking from us at any given time. If YPN became a legit competitor, we could see a price war for our services as publishers and maybe find out how much they’re making off us. As it is now, they could be paying out 50% one day, need money to meet WallStreet’s projections, and drop it to 25% for the next month.
June 14, 2007 at 2:25 pm
On that note, since when are their responses “quick and clear?”
June 14, 2007 at 1:51 pm
On that note, since when is their support “amazing” ?
June 14, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Since when is AdSense a PPC search engine?
June 14, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Yeah, I think the banning issue is the main one. There should be a process which would allow the site to come up to regulation before banning.
Adsense really needs a viable competitor to come along so we can see what having competition can accomplish
June 14, 2007 at 1:24 pm
shoemoney and child pornography
June 14, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Well that scared the crap outta me, it’s not everyday that I’m sitting here drinking some water and a topless dude pops up on Google Reader…
June 14, 2007 at 12:55 pm
We think Google is the best value for advertising thus far. We have tried them all. Google has improved in the
last 12 months.
June 14, 2007 at 12:51 pm
is everybody on the shoemoney workout program?