Going Commercial

Blogs June 26th, 2003

Like many other bloggers, I’ve decided to give Google’s AdSense a test run.

I suppose I’m most interested in the type of Ads that get served on subsequent posts. Specifically, the context matching of content to Ads. So far it seems to be working well.

However, I do wish Google offered more flexibility with the style and sizes of the Ads.

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3 Comments to “Going Commercial”

  1. steven hatch | June 27th, 2003 at 2:06 am

    Hmm, so far I’ve found that Google’s Ad targeting is fairly accurate, which I think does add value to the blog.

  2. Anders | July 2nd, 2003 at 5:07 am

    That’s interesting. It seems a lot of bloggers are getting denied participation in the Google AdSense programme; did you do anything special or is Google just inconsistent in accepting applications, I wonder…

    (I haven’t applied myself…)

  3. jeanloui | January 12th, 2004 at 3:40 pm

    I asked Google to “test” my PostNuke site in order to display the AdSense adds, and Google told me that my site was not allowed to have the adds cause
    ———–
    Difficult site navigation: During our review of your website, we found
    your site difficult to navigate. Potential navigation issues include:
    broken links, excessive pop-ups, dialers, dynamic content, website
    pages under construction or not yet launched.

    ———
    How do you do to ad adsense into your PN’s ?

    Thanks