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We really appreciate you taking the time to let us know how we can improve the AdSense program.
Is there a new or improved feature you would like to see in AdSense? If so, please tell us about them here.
ASA
When we block ads, let us specify which site we're blocking it for - all, or a specific list. Failing that, let us specify whether we want our sites considered to be child/family friendly - some of the dating ads really don't belong on such a site, but that doesn't mean I want to ban them from my other, more grown-up sites.
They were offered once on a trial basis to a limited number of publishers. Not sure if they still are.
These threads, through the lack of any tangible efforts to incorporate the most logical and reasonable suggestions (for years), have become demeaning and in my opinion seriously disrespectful!
What other organization stoops to the level of blatantly "playing" with their business partners/associates AND... to what end?
Chapman
[edited by: Chapman at 2:12 am (utc) on July 17, 2008]
ASA, with the retiring of Referral ads, it is now even more essential for Google to give us a way to trace back where an ad impression was made on which page.Many us have too many pages to be able to track all ads displayed, some pages are just forgotten, and once you pull the plug, there will be a lot of ugly "This page cannot be displayed" boxes on the Internet.
I am proposing you add a feature now that allows publishers to insert an alternate ad for each referral box size that can no longer be displayed.
This way we can all look into our stats and trace back which pages are calling those alternate ads and have them fixed, also some of us can use it to insert AdSense or another network ad code.
Please give this one a priority before the web starts looking like it's broken, give us a smooth transition.
Thanks Hobbs! This is brilliant! Not that we can realistically expect it's consideration.
Chapman
Explanation:
I have a network of over 100 different sites and I use the same Google Adsense code on all the sites.
Each site is displaying the appropriate ads for the theme of the site.
In the recent past, a company began displaying ads on all of the sites within my network, and despite the individual theme of each site, there was a connection between the ads and all the sites. (While each site has a unique theme, there is an overarching theme across the whole network, and this company was speaking to the overarching theme.)
The problem was that I have a few sites within the network that have a more conservative demographic, and the ads displayed by this company were a little inappropriate. I asked them to block the ads from about 5 URL's, but they did not do so.
Since I could not block their ads from specific URL's within my network, I was forced to block them from my entire network...even though their ads were completely appropriate on 95 other sites within my network.
Customize the palette of the destination page of the link units.
In the link units configuration you can only choose 3 colors: title, background and border.
I use lots of horizontal link bars with different background colors: if the site's background is white, these bars are black. Contrary to what is supposed to happen, the user shouldn't "feel" the color transition, what happens in these situations is the opposite.
Furthermore, the text color and the link color (that I can't choose) is often unusable, as dark green on black for example.
Thanks for your consideration. :)
The ability to choose whether or not to use the scroll arrows. (I think they are working so I would keep them)
I know that CTR may increase thanks to the increased font size. But at the same time many of my visitors will never return to my site thanks to the spam look that the Google ads with giant letters give to it. I prefer having a lower CTR and so should Google (think long-term).
Thank you.
are all a nogo and they make the ads look very inserious!
[edited by: TerrCan123 at 1:28 am (utc) on July 30, 2008]
If you are afraid that inexperienced publishers "get lost" in advanced options and unintentionally decrease their (and your) earnings by misconfiguring their AdSense ads, then this could be a good solution. An appropriate warning message could be displayed when the publisher decides to switch his AdSense account to the Advanced mode.
That way, you could satisfy experienced users (see the repetitive messages in threads like this) while providing the inexperienced users with a safe mode where they can just work in the "fire-and-forget" mode.
I promise you that if you give us, the experienced publishers (power users), the right tools and more control, we will earn you more money and increase long-term sustainability of the AdSense program (by gaining returning visitors).
Based on your feedback, we will now ask you for your feedback here twice a year. This will allow you to share your ideas with us, and allow us to update you on AdSense developments.
If you have any ideas in the meantime, do let us know.
ASA
and allow us to update you on AdSense developments
When can we expect the first round of updates from Google on what suggestions were taken into consideration, priorities on it and ETA of when we can get them ?
we will now ask you for your feedback here twice a year.
See, that's what we at WW thought would happen anyway. Remember when you wanted a weekly feature request thread? *chuckle*
Anyway, it's a wise decision, also on the feedback part - though I will cheer about this only once I have seen the first "update on Adsense developments".
