I wonder why he isn't signing up. I heard you get better rates if you're premium, which would mean better rates for the revenue sharing also.
errrrrrrrr (incorrect buzzer sound) If shawn was approved and had a increase on his account then it would have zero effect on anyone elses ad displayed since its your account that recieves the cpc margin increase. I have run into that on some sites where i rotate my code with others. I always get much better revenue then others.
Honestly the 20m page views thing isn't really a requirement. I believe they use that as a detour. I know people that are prem publishers that have no where close to 20m page views a month.
I believe the traffic req. applies to a site, not acct. On the other hand, publisher payouts are per acct <--- actually i am fuzzy on this one. and honestly, i am not convinced that the payouts are higher for prem publishers either
Are you sure about that? What makes you think they are Google Premium AdSense ads? That site makes no sense to me. What exactly is it? I went there and (www.hasimrahman.com) saw some "related links" that said "Amature Boxing". So I clicked on it, and was sent to another page with nothing but amature porn links. Odd...
As far as i know premium publisher can tweak adsense code.And if you notice on that website there is no where written "Ads by Gooooogle".But results under Sponsered Links are from adsense.So i thought it to be Premium Publisher. But someone has pointed in this thread that it might be Park Domain.
Yeah, it has to be a parked domain. And beyond that the little script that is supposed to generate random link based on searches and or specific keywords is a bit flawed when clicking on a link for Amature boxers shows nothing but homemade porn.
I don't know why <1k should be considered reliable. Alexa is imo a complete waste of time. It doesn't matter whether you get 1,000,000 or 100,000,000 visitors, Alexa still only knows about those with their toolbar installed.
From your own thread: "I raised my website on Alexa to 200,000 in just one day" Why don't you raise it to ~385 (DP's level) and then will talk about it? As I said, Alexa is a decent indicator of traffic level for high-ranked sites. 200k is nothing. And how many sites that are in top 10k on Alexa cheated to get that rank? My guess is only few if that. And I imagine there are quite a few of those that bother to waste their time cheating at your level (200k)
Liminal, you're going to have to explain that. Start with: a) how many users have the alexa toolbar installed. b) how many users in total are there (I mean on the 'net). From that you could come up with an approximation on real traffic to the site. Without the above information the Alexa rankings are imo completely pointless.
It looks really weired why DP is not eligible of premium account yet. This is another very strange thing for me that there are or could be only 384 or less adsense premium publishers .
The more visitors your site gets, the more Alexa toolbars you have hitting your site. As your traffic increases, your Alexa traffic rank is likely to go up as chances are more Alexa toolbars are hitting your site. Alexa is not about visitors only but is also about number of pages they view. So that could make the numbers somewhat confusing. Overall if I am offered advertising on a professional looking site with a very high Alexa rank, I am very tempted to go for it. Instead of arguing in abstract terms, why not look at top-ranked sites there? http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=lang&lang=en The results look pretty damn legit to me