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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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 Posted - 01 August 2003 : 03:20:28
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Actually I never said it was a problem :)
I'm advertising on Adwords, but that automatically gets your banners put into the adsense network as well afaik. |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 01 August 2003 : 03:56:23
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Seahorse, have a look at this page, see if there's some way your site doesn't 'conform'...
You know that's what puzzles me. I've been through the terms and I can't for the life of me figure out why I was turned down.
The site is up and running. It isn't about race/hate crimes, porn, violence, hacking/cracking, gambling, etc. I've gotten proper permission for the content from the relevant copyright holders.
The only thing that might be a problem is if they see it as a personal site. But does the fact that I'm the only person working on it make it a personal site? I don't think so.
I've actually asked them what specifically doesn't conform and get a generic response in reply telling me to look at their terms. These guys need a lesson in customer service. |
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D3mon
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1685 Posts |
Posted - 03 August 2003 : 18:29:16
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| Maybe they consider the content to be too closely connected with sensitive issues (although I'm sure its not). Either that ot they are of the opinion it is a 'personal' site. Question is, how do you tell them its not - where is the boundary between personal site and non-personal? |
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middleweb
Junior Member
USA
230 Posts |
Posted - 03 August 2003 : 23:59:26
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How much $$$ is everyone making? Sorry, I just kind of skimmed the topic so I don't know. I mean...I'm not a big fan of putting Ads, but it'd be nice to get my hosting paid for or something.
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 04 August 2003 : 02:00:18
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| I believe its against the TOS for Adsense for anyone to give out too much information about their revenue etc :( |
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middleweb
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 04 August 2003 : 02:42:56
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| AH...mmmkay. Well I guess I'll just have to try it for myself once I get sufficient traffic :) Thanks though! |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 04 August 2003 : 02:46:40
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| Yeah sorry I can't give you more info than that, I will say that if you have a pretty busy forum that it looks like it should be worth your while placing the ads on it. |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 04 August 2003 : 23:32:26
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Originally posted by D3mon
Maybe they consider the content to be too closely connected with sensitive issues (although I'm sure its not). Either that ot they are of the opinion it is a 'personal' site. Question is, how do you tell them its not - where is the boundary between personal site and non-personal?
Well, I've put some thought into it and I think of it this way. Google would take sites that have keywords that they can sell ads for. If your (my site in this case) has keywords that no one wants to buy ads for, well, it's only logical that they turn you down.
I think in my case, my keywords are words like "F-15", or "MiG-29". It's really up to the people buying the keyword ads to realize that flight sim game enthusiasts, RC modelers, scale modelers, air show enthusiasts, etc. are targets for these keywords.
I think that makes sense, as to if that's the logic Google used when the turned my site down...well who knows.
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 05 August 2003 : 00:06:29
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| They definately got something screwy in their verification procedures seahorse turned down as well, queried why got the same response you did, then a day later got a "welcome to adsense" email so I didn't query it any further and just assumed someone re-reviewed it and I got lucky. |
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D3mon
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United Kingdom
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Aaron S.
Average Member
USA
985 Posts |
Posted - 05 August 2003 : 09:19:06
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I just signed up for the program (it almost immediately sent me the welcome email). I also sell sponsorship banners on the site, so we'll see how well Google does compared to traditional ads.
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VodkaFish
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 05 August 2003 : 20:06:34
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| I have AdSense on my site, and although many sites seem to be having success with it, it's doing pretty horrible on mine. |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 05 August 2003 : 21:44:51
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| VodkaFish, what's your site about? |
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 05 August 2003 : 21:59:12
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| I signed up when I first read this topic and so far for removed, which is very small but this time of year we do not have a lot of visitors. Even if it kept up at that rate, we'd have our yearly hosting paid for. |
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middleweb
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 05 August 2003 : 23:28:23
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What's your site URL Nikkol?
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