Why doesm't boards use Google Adsense?

Agent Smith

more money?

Fighting Irish

Instead of the ****ty adds it is using now

Sparky

me confused now with reversed posts

Maybe boards dont use them because maybe it feels too advertised and they rather flashy ads.
they use them on boards.us however

Fighting Irish

agent smith wrote:

more money?

I don't know about that, i'd say adsense would make more

Fighting Irish

Sparky-s wrote:

me confused now with reversed posts

Maybe boards dont use them because maybe it feels too advertised and they rather flashy ads.
they use them on boards.us however

Ye WTF happened?

RobertFoster

Fighting Irish wrote:

Ye WTF happened?

Pixie Ninja Pirates.

Agent Smith

like the title to the police album....


ghosts in the machine

RuggieBear

agent smith wrote:

like the title to the police album....

Outlandos D'Amour?

Zaph0d

Internet forums get terrible click-through rates. Anyone care to suggest why?

WexCan

Click archive at the bottom of the page.

Fighting Irish

Zaph0d wrote:

Internet forums get terrible click-through rates. Anyone care to suggest why?

because i hear everyone on boards saying that the current adds are whats causing the speed problem

DeVore

I believe I posted to explain that I met with the ad company and we are taking over the ad server hosting to improve the speed issue that a seemingly small number of users are having. I've never experienced it myself but *shrug*.

I'd appreciate it if you could be a little patient about it and also to tone your language down too.

We don't use adsense because we tried it and its bad bad bad for us. We made a pittance from it and there are technical concerns too.

They only pay per click-through which zeros the "brand exposure" value and the marketeers get that from us for free as a result. In all, not a great solution for a general, broad-based forum site.

DeV.

Lump

Do you not get paid for page views with google ads? I know nothing about it, just wondering. Surely if it was 1 cent per page view, or less, that'd be a money spinner, again, I know nothing about this

John

Asok

Nope google do it by click through, Also there was a nasty habbit of "Unsuitable" ads being displayed that really had no place being on an ad banner here.

rsynnott

Google AdSense is notoriously bad on forums.

Lump

AFAIK Stephen, uses google ads on www.feckoff.net and he gets paid for page views It's really wierd, we were only talking about this a couple of days ago!

rsynnott

Some ads do pay on a CPM basis (views) but you'll make very little money that way. The money is in CPC (clicks).

Lump

Yes, but with such a large amount of views.....

John

Fighting Irish

DeVore wrote:

I believe I posted to explain that I met with the ad company and we are taking over the ad server hosting to improve the speed issue that a seemingly small number of users are having. I've never experienced it myself but *shrug*.

I'd appreciate it if you could be a little patient about it and also to tone your language down too.

We don't use adsense because we tried it and its bad bad bad for us. We made a pittance from it and there are technical concerns too.

They only pay per click-through which zeros the "brand exposure" value and the marketeers get that from us for free as a result. In all, not a great solution for a general, broad-based forum site.

DeV.

Yes but with adsense you get paid pretty well when people click the adds, with a forum like this where people appreciate it they will click the odd add once a day or so just to help out, well i know i would.

damien

You can't ask users to click. Google will cancel your account over click fraud.

rsynnott

damien.m wrote:

You can't ask users to click. Google will cancel your account over click fraud.

And quite right too.

Fighting Irish

damien.m wrote:

You can't ask users to click. Google will cancel your account over click fraud.

There will be no "asking members to click" people who know how it works will click adds just to help

Fighting Irish

I am a member at a different board and most of the people who visit frequently click adds because they know it helps

rsynnott

Fighting Irish wrote:

I am a member at a different board and most of the people who visit frequently click adds because they know it helps

There you go then; Google is rather good at detecting that sort of thing.

Fighting Irish

rsynnott wrote:

There you go then; Google is rather good at detecting that sort of thing.

Yes but people aren't asked to click, they just do because they know it helps.