AdSense Ads Include “Advertise On This Site”
Dave Taylor has an article on his site about a new beta program from AdSense that ads an “Advertise on this site” link on ad units. When the link is clicked it takes the visitor to a page that talks about the referring site and has an invitation to sign up with AdWords.
I don’t agree with Dave who says: “This is very exciting news for those of us involved in the AdSense / AdWords world, and I’m looking forward to Google making it more pervasive”. I don’t want one of these links on my site. If an advertiser wants to put an ad on my site I want him to contact me directly. I don’t want to have to share the revenue with Google. I hope this will be an optional feature and not something that publishers have no control over.
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Dave Taylor Said,
September 29, 2005 @ 4:38 pm
I appreciate your perspective, actually. I’m curious whether Google will allow AdSense publishers to opt OUT of the program, and of course, you can have an ‘advertise on this site’ link already on your site. But then you can’t slip the ads that you’ve sold into the Google AdSense block, so you’d force a redesign of your site AND you can’t have it look the same either (read the AdSense terms of service).
Toivo Lainevool Said,
September 29, 2005 @ 4:53 pm
Right now I’m hoping it’s an opt-in program. Since the AdSense policy explicitly allows simple text links, it seems like it would be an antagonistic move by Google to put these links on a publishers site without permission. They would be direct competition to the “Advertise on this Site” type links that many publishers already have in place.
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