revenue sharing

hey all,

so, it seems like Google has no problems with forums using revenue sharing (as DP does). has anyone encountered any cases that seem to suggest otherwise?

james

 

There seems to be nothing in the TOS to suggest that you can't engage in revenue sharing. Having said that, I took my Pub-ID out of DP a long time ago as I didn't want to take any chances. Just in case Google had a problem with people sharing their Pub-IDs.

 

I took out my adsense pub-id today. I made few cents from DP in two months. It's a nice marketing tool for DP. But I did learn a lot from this forum. I don't think that the revenue sharing is against TOS.

 

yeah, i decided to take down my pub id as well as i don't want to take any chances.

anyway, i was primarily wondering how safe this concept was from a forum site owner's perspective. TOS does not mention it which is good thing. Plus Google guys are said to hang around this forum. so if any of this was an issue, they'd pull the plug by now, i think.

 

I saw a similar forum about 2 months before in China, but now it's down for some unknown reasons.

 

Careful, people, revenue sharing isn't allowed any more.

 

The twilight zone that Fryman dwells in

 

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/5618-1-10.htm

#2

 

Sure you can't start spending all your time there Fryman

You and WMW deserve each other

 

we voluntarily opt into this. doesn't that count as consent?

 

the way i read it is: you cannot display 2+ google ads on the same page (not site) if those ads have different pub ids.

 

I think Jenstar made it pretty clear...

 

If google has contacted Shawn before about inappropriate content, I think they probably would have told him if it wasn't ok for him to do.....

 

I think devbistro is right

 

Or, I'm sure Shawn has contacted Google about this, he isn't the kind of guy that just puts up a feature without carefully thinking about it first.

 

I would have to agree with Shawn on this one. It does seem that it's probably all right to do this (according to the TOS). Moreover, the ads are not being displayed at the same time, i.e: Only one publisher's ads are being displayed "at a time" on a page.

Having said that, I had my concerns which is why I have taken my Pub ID out.

 

That last repeated "if authorized" part is really confusing... it seems that in either case you still need to be authorized by Google.