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I got banned from adsense a couple of years ago. I had an app I was writing and I had the ads in the corner. I made sure to not click my own ads, but because

I got banned from adsense a couple of years ago. I had an app I was writing and I had the ads in the corner. I made sure to not click my own ads, but because I was refreshing many times from the same IP, it somehow triggered a perma-ban. I've tried to sign-up since and I don't get any errors, but I never get my acceptance email and Google won't ever respond to my queries. Adsense is mostly a ripoff anyway. There are much better ways to monetize your traffic.

toumhi 15y ago
While there are (sometimes) better ways to monetize your traffic, Adsense is an easy to deploy, set-and-forget solution. So I wouldn't call it a ripoff :-)
- paulhauggis 15y ago
  There are many more solutions that are just as easy (and have better returns). Adsense is no longer the only place to go for ad placement.
  - inklesspen 15y ago
    What are these solutions? I help run a moderately-popular failblog exposing sexism in gaming, but aside from a few isolated cases, the advertising "interest" we get is people wanting to set up link exchanges advertising acai berries or whatever. I'm presuming this is because the good ad networks don't need to look for sites to display on, but I haven't found anything else that's as good as AdSense. (And due to TOS, we can't run AdSense.)
    - rjd 15y ago
      Well via my ex employer I can get $25 CPM, and ad sense is around $0.40 CPM on average. Its just foolish to use google advertising IMO
      - codexon 15y ago
        Who is your ex-employer?
        rjd 15y ago
        A television network, so they have a proper sales team etc... and direct dialogue with business and agencies. The network ran trials of using Google ads on certain pages, and some did OK $10k per page per month (on popular pages). But at the end of the day that barely covers costs of running the network. Google can't supply the cross medium advertising either, so most agencies are more than happy to pay the extra $24.60/cpm to actually get to the desired markets. The old saying "you get what you pay for" really sums it up really.
      - rjd 15y ago
        Should point out that its not probably closer to USD$20 CPM as I'm not in the states

toumhi 15y ago

While there are (sometimes) better ways to monetize your traffic, Adsense is an easy to deploy, set-and-forget solution. So I wouldn't call it a ripoff :-)

paulhauggis 15y ago
There are many more solutions that are just as easy (and have better returns). Adsense is no longer the only place to go for ad placement.
- inklesspen 15y ago
  What are these solutions? I help run a moderately-popular failblog exposing sexism in gaming, but aside from a few isolated cases, the advertising "interest" we get is people wanting to set up link exchanges advertising acai berries or whatever. I'm presuming this is because the good ad networks don't need to look for sites to display on, but I haven't found anything else that's as good as AdSense. (And due to TOS, we can't run AdSense.)
  - rjd 15y ago
    Well via my ex employer I can get $25 CPM, and ad sense is around $0.40 CPM on average. Its just foolish to use google advertising IMO
    - codexon 15y ago
      Who is your ex-employer?
      - rjd 15y ago
        A television network, so they have a proper sales team etc... and direct dialogue with business and agencies. The network ran trials of using Google ads on certain pages, and some did OK $10k per page per month (on popular pages). But at the end of the day that barely covers costs of running the network. Google can't supply the cross medium advertising either, so most agencies are more than happy to pay the extra $24.60/cpm to actually get to the desired markets. The old saying "you get what you pay for" really sums it up really.
    - rjd 15y ago
      Should point out that its not probably closer to USD$20 CPM as I'm not in the states