1. Have a refferal Program, This is my question to google? Why does Chikita, RevTwt, ect have refferal programs and google doesnt? 2. Every click counts. How come when i look at my exit links i am missing adsense clicks? Why does google make some clicks count when other dont? How about this have only ad that if they get clicked i make money off of. I dont want 5 clicks and only 2 of them count. 3. More accountablity. What happends if i go on your website and click an adsense unit 100 times? Game over, and google will ban you for click fraud when i cant do anything about that. 4. Being able to Suggest certain website you want to have on your adsense units. 5. Text link Ad's. If i have a High PR website/blog can i sell text link ad's so i dont have to use another company. 6. Pay to Paypal. I like using paypal, can google send money to paypal it is cheaper and doesnt cost them anything. 7. bonuses. If i get 100 dollars a week in adsense clicks why doesnt google have a thing where i can call up and say hey if i keep making X amount of money can google throw a bonus on top of that? 8. Weekly payments. Google is a billion dollar company why do they pay monthly? 9. New Adsense units. The google ad's are looking outdated can they change them up people are getting adsense block because they are so use to the ad's 10. 4-5 Adsense units per website. Im not saying have spam amounts by i think 3 units per page is weak sauce. Part of the problem is i have like 6 places where i could put adsense blocks but google wont let me? Why? Im saying just raise the bar a bit. Tell me what you think if im missing anything ect. I signed up with Chikita because they have better ad's and pay better. I would use them 100% but i cant. They only show up for search not for direct links ect. Anyways i just hope google takes these ideas into consideration.
Like the suggestion about different ad formats, but don't agree that more than three ad blocks per page are necessary. Anyway, great post and some excellent suggestions. Google can be a law to themselves sometimes and more accountability in their reporting and conflict resolution is long overdue.
Google should implode. Surprised it hasn't already. One can still hope. When a company sends a camera crew to your neighborhood to take a picture of your house so any ding dong can plan a buglary... Hello George Orwell! Can't stand 'em.
Pay to paypal would be alright if they could do mass pay, otherwise paypal charges a lot to receive funds which kind of sucks. I also wish they would lower the minimum from $100 to $50, but doubt either will ever happen.
Point No. 3 is the most important one for sure, They gotta find out some solid solution for that (of course, you can always report them whenever you notice somthing, but still...), because innocent publisher suffers from that, even if they haven't done anything wrong with that.
Probably not going to happen, as paypal is the competitor of their own payment processing system which is Google checkout.
I disagree with most of your points: 1. yeah referal program woudl be nice, but they're not in great need of more publishers, they already have plenty 2. No, some accidental clicks shouldn't be counted, for the benefit of advertisers who are financing this whole system. If a visitor stays 1 sec and click back on their browser because they realize they were tricked into clicking, it shouldn't count. 3. Yeah more accountability would be nice, but when you're #1 with few real competitors, it's probably not their priority. Also, they ahve to make suer they don't provide too much info that spammers/fraudsters/cheaters could use, and there are plenty of them 4. Suggesting ads would possibly be prone for abuse. People will try to get high paying ads that aren't relevant to their site. 5. Text link ads? You have to be kidding me. Really? Ok, why would Google provide a service that is based on manipulating articifially their search algorithm by spammers? 6. I guess Paypal could be nice. 7. Bonus? What's in it for them? You're already being paid plenty compared to other programs. 8. Weekly payments? What's the rush? Plan your finances. 9. Adsense units are based on IAB ad standard sizes, as they should. http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/1421/1443/1452 10. More ads on a page? We already have 3 ad units, 2 link units, 1 search unit. Any more would be complete web spam. Gogole is not in the business of facilitating that and lsoe their brand appeal with normal visitors.
1. Google did have a refferal program and it didn't work out. I'm sure they had a good reason. 2. There's a good reason clicks are not counted and that's because they are bogus crappy in the site one second clicks. 3. Google will not ban you for someone elses doing. They will ban you if that someone elses doing lives in your neighborhood or is related to you though. 4. Adsense publishers being able to Suggest sites to have adds on would destroy the balance of click worths. Everyone would have the same ads on their sites and no one else will have a chance to use adwords. Its important that the "Buyers"(adwords advertisers) get this option as they are the customers. 5. Spam.....You know one good ad in a site can make more than 40 ads in another. More does not make more money. 6. I agree. Paypal should be a good source of exchanging money with google, but then again. They would just make their own system. 7. Because its not fair that some site that a dude doesn't even look at not only makes tons of money, but also recieves bonus. What about the average Joe who spends hours and hours a day to build his site up while some Jerry Richie throws $1000 to a site in order to grab the bonus. 8. It saves google probably about 40,000 on their adsense funding so its not too bad to get paid monthly. 9. I agree. Adsense should have more diff. options and types of looks of ads. Its sad that its the same. 10. Like I said in No#5. SPAM. The number of ads does not bring in more profit. The quality of the site does, even with only one adsense ad. Some people use the 3ad banners, 3 link units, and then they got Kontera junk on there too. More ads isn't going to help. It'll just lower the quality of your site
2. Accidental clicks? That is stupid what if the page is a spammer? Ever consider that? 4. I got 2 clicks today made .12 cents? 10 years ago that would been 10 bucks. Google gives me low PPC ad's rather then giving me one that are higher paying and relevent to my content. 5. i dont get what you are saying 7. .12 for 2 clicks and they didnt count 3 clicks. Ya they are paying me real great. 8. Why monthly what with plan your finances? Do you know anything about investments? What if your boss said well im not paying you until the end of the month. I think you need to read rich dad poor dad. 10. all i asked is 1-2 more block ad's not 100. How come everybody agree's with me but you? What are you Credentials?
You are mostly right on most of your suggestions. but personally, Google may not really listen to suggestions for now as they control more than half of all searches and they make their own rules and the internet doesn't have much of law to control many activities o the internet. Thanks Shelly77
You're asking for freebies and more money, of course everybody will agree with you. But that's a childish reaction. I'm trying to be more level headed and explain why it's not going to happen, or why it is not beneficial for the whole advertising program. You can face reality or you can evade in some fantasy la-la-land where everything is offered to you on a silver platter because you're magically entitled to it, like getting $5 a click, but this is not supposed to be a pointless fiction thread. My credentials? What does that have to do with anything? The value of a post is its logic, not the poster. I don't see the need to reveal anything about me, unless I have something to gain, like lots of money
I havent been doing much with adsense but i can say that chitika is quite good. Only the problem is, they only show ads to only US and CA visitors and that also from a search. I am working on them, guess its worth it
You will never meet a person who is more against welfare then me. That is no joke and im not asking for a handout but im looking at other Pay Per Download company programs ect they said that if you make them X amount of dollars per week they will raise the rates long you keep the money flowing in. As for being on a silver platter i hope you know i grew up really poor i mean going without food poor. So i hope it makes you feel better, i dont think having contracts for rates is a handout. Then people wonder why the Problogger doesnt use adsense on his blog anymore. Now im not one those people who ask for any handout no way will that ever happen but i mean when i find out google is not counting clicks and im having adsense on my gaming blog show up that are like "Shop at Tj Max" or "Free cupon to wal-mart" ect it makes me mad because i know those are worth nothing and i know for a fact that they arent going to drive clicks. Google has no accountablity thats why im testing other PPC companies like Chitka. some of your points made no sense. If google cant find good companies that match my content then why cant i choose. Google shouldnt have ad's about shopping for .4 cents a click when i could have download X game for a 1.25 a click. I hope you understand what im saying.
OfficialRTS, I understand your problems, I have some similar issues at times with some of my web sites. The problem is usually the lack of advertisers demand for a specific topic (we're in a recession you know), targeting issues with Adsense (rarer, in which case do some search on that topic) or advertisers blocking your site because of poor performance. Anyway, not all sites are well suited with Adsense, and I really wish you luck finding something better for that site, or a program where you agree with the company Policies. I hear gaming isn't that great of a topic with Google, because gamers don't click or buy that much, being technically literate, and there is an enormous amount of sites on that topic, so advertisers get traffic cheaply. But if you're going to make demands to Google, you need to be reasonable and not drown your list with unrealistic requests or the list won't be seriously considered. Don't ask for things that you know will never happen from Google's point of view. Realize that the fault may not be Google, but your site, and adapt like a real business man by dropping poorly performing products, exploring and creating new ones that may fare better.
i like some of your points How about protecting people from clickbombing? Maybe having only one unique IP count per 24 hours. Or have the ad dissappear after being clicked once, per 24 hours. something fair, I don't know. But of course they don't care about it enough to do something about it, even tho everybody wants them to
No Game over guys If Google system was so weak then it would have not survived. One banned AdSense publisher may take revenge on all AdSense sites he see - click bomb.