Flash image ads ?

Discussion in 'Google AdWords' started by play, Jan 29, 2006.

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    Have one adsense account, i set for one of my pages "Image ads" just . one banner showed i tryed to right click and check URL but surprise was in flash .. can you tell me how its this possible and if my clicks on that can be recorded ?
     
    play, Jan 29, 2006 IP
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    Micromag Well-Known Member

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    in adwords/adsense image ads means that is can be a normal image ad: .gif .jpg .png or a flash ad: .swf

    Yes, your clicks are recorded normally like text ads or like any other image ad. I used a lot of flash ads and I'm very sure that I pay for each click that I received for my site.

    Be happy to have flash ads on your site, they normally has a better CTR% compared to usual image Ads.
     
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    hmm .. strange .. you upload flash doc at yahoo , take time to be aproved or its by def ?
    I ask this becouse its kinda strange one thing .. one flash doc can do a lot of things .. lets say someone have a flash with "go to on release" then means if i check my web page with image add i will be redirect to that and will be a invalid click. Hope noone will call me stupid
     
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    Micromag Well-Known Member

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    its not stupid your question it makes a lot of sense: You can make a lot of things with flash but it has been designed to be used as PPC banners:

    It take some time to be approved as any other text ad or graphic ad that you create at adwords.

    To protect wrong use of the flash ads, Google use 2 layers of approval for it: one automatic approval that check this requirements:

    https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=26938&query=flash+ads&topic=0&type=f

    like if you have the clickTAG code in your flash that prevent malicious redirection to a wrong url

    and a manual approval:

    https://adwords.google.com/select/imageguidelines.html

    that someone there check if the image do not contain trademark stuff, nudity, etc.

    I'm a Flash designer and I can say that with these measurements is quite impossible to create a kind of "Banner Spyware" Flash Script that redirect the page another page without recording the clicks.

    Macromedia and Google already take all measurements before risking their own business in Flash banners Area.
     
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