I was browing the Internet today and noticed something. The Majority of pages I visited with AdSense has very little content and ads plastered all over the site. The content in many cases was scraped from other sites, and the goal was obviously to trick you into clicking ads which looked like part of the site content. This type of stuff is one of the main reasons I dumped AdWords after 6 years. Question 1 - Will Google ever clean this up or will they drive AdSense into the abyss? Question 2 - Will the publishers that made say ($500 to $1500 a month) and have watched their earnings drop 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% just eventually leave and let the millions of garbage collectors scrape of the pennies? (I am not talking about legitimate sites trying to break into the market but the true garbage sites) Question 3 - Do you see a day when Google pulls back the program and starts excluding MANY countries from AdSense?
i believe that if they want to make a change they will probably simply create some kind of manual approval for the sites that are allowed to show ads. it will require a lot of resources but the quality goes up.
That would help. But coming from a company that no longer responds to legitimate questions via email, and has no real customer service anymore, does this seem likely?
Advertisers care about whether Adword help them generate traffics and sales!!! Google care about whether publishers attract real traffics and keep advertisers for paying the ads!!! Publishers care about whether the Google ads could generate profit or not!!! The statements above is assumptions only I think as long as the traffics from little content sites is real, advertisers, Google and publishers everyone is fine with it!!! In fact, I think the ads itself is content too. It just looks like a directory for related sites
Ahh, I think someday another PPC program like YPN or maybe one from microsoft will come along and eventually take out google adsense as far as being #1 goes. Google takes the program and how huge it is for granted. If they took some of those billions, actually more like a few million to pay for a more user friendly costumer service type of deal than they COULD weed out all the useless sites, allow honest adsense users who were wrongfully banned to return, and by upping the quality of the publishers create more advertisers. It seems like google just figures, screw it, its making us millions why change it ? but at some point adsense just won't be #1 anymore.
little webmasters care about visitors nowadays the most important is visitor's clicks not the visitors and all that is google's fault
Google's cleaned this quite a bit already. Most sites I run into with adsense are quality sites, not garbage ones. While the recession has hit everyone's earnings, I don't think that will affect the quality of most sites that use adsense.
Exactly ... And also let them do random periodic check in some pages where Ads are placed before giving payment But this cant happen A service which always sends auto response when asked for any support .i dont think this will get implemented
there should a a special adsense team to do this..but google just wont have implemented this..where does the money goes?
I don't think its a problem that there are a lot of publishers using black-hat methods to get 'the-click'. I know that it dilutes the web experience a little but how else could Adsense operate under Google? There's something quite refreshing about the whole Adsense experience that is unique to the websphere. Basically if you own a site you could potentially make money from the traffic that flows through it. Thats great, don't you think? I know... you get a lot of junk from people trying to make the quick buck, but you also get some great stuff, from people trying to use Adsense the right way. Give Google a chance. They need to clean up the system for their own survival. If junk sites begin to take over they won't have a business... I think Google are aware of this, so don't worry.