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Many of us here (myself included) have opted out of "Advertise on this site" in ad units because, while showing it once may be acceptable, showing it multiple times per page when a page has multiple ad units makes it look desperate and cheesy.
New feature idea: It would be cool if we could add our own stand-alone "Advertise on this site" text link anywhere on our page that we like. It would be similar to the Adsense referral link we can do now, but it would point to the special "Advertise on this site" page the way the link in the ad unit does.
What do you think? Would those of you who disabled "Advertise on this site" in ad units add a stand-alone "Advertise on this site" text link to your pages?
I'd love to put such a link on my "advertise here" page.
Throw in referral credit for any new AdWords customers signed up through the unit and I think it would be really popular.
It would be cool if we could add our own stand-alone "Advertise on this site" text link anywhere on our page that we like.
We can pretty much do that now, they have text links already built for you, see the referal section of your Adsense control panel.
Throw in referral credit for any new AdWords customers signed up through the unit and I think it would be really popular.
That's already part of the deal too, again, see the referal section of your Adsense control panel.
If you don't like the wording of the Adsense/Google furnished text links it's not that hard to work around.
1: Build a page to sell advertizers on using Adwords Site Targeting to advertize on your site. Put the official Adwords referal link/button on that page. Probably a good idea to make this a noindex, nocache page and disallow it in your robots.txt file.
2: Write your own text links and paste them anywhere you want on your site. Point those links to the page you built in step 1.
I never thought about that approach. Good tip.
And I'd be happy if I didn't get any type of referral credit for that - just my share of the AdSense click income that results.
FarmBoy
I'd be happy with an "Advertise on this site link" that actually allows the visitor to start advertising on this site, via AdSense, as opposed to being mislead into opening an AdSense account and hoping the ads appear on "this site."
That's the problem I have with it too. The fact that visitors interested in advertising on my site think that's what they will get. IE they can choose the amount they want to spend advertising on the one site. The fact that they are not getting that, but getting hoodwinked into advertising on search, and all sorts of other places, and in reality their ad may well not appear on my site at all sits very badly with me. I won't use it. Currently I have an advertise on this site link to a page where I sell direct advertising, and have had minor success with it.
And I'd be happy if I didn't get any type of referral credit for that - just my share of the AdSense click income that results.
Well, we don't get to choose how they would reward us for getting them more money. But if I had a choice, I'd suggest that if the advertiser was allowed to advertise direct to the site by default, and opt into other advertising if they chose they would clearly mean business and would be happy to pay for the privelege. All I'd ask if that Google did NOT smartprice those clicks, nor select MFA's instead.
The clicks should be competitive, and the advertiser should have to pay a fair rate to advertise. The advertiser should not be allowed to overtake other better paying ads selected by Google with a CPM campaign simply because he chose to click the link. The auctions should work fairly for all parties involved.
The advertiser should also not have to pay a premium to bump an MFA off of the top slots. The MFA shouldn't be there in the first place.
In return, the publisher should be rewarded by no smartpricing, and no having the ads bumped by MFA's. I feel that an advertiser selecting a site to advertise on is a good bet for both the advertiser and publisher. Google as broker should be catering to their needs, whilst taking a fair brokerage.
Introduce a system whereby the advertiser can simply advertise on the site he chose and I'd consider it.
I would jump on it with both feet if it were handled as fairly as that but as it stands, no way.
Ann
