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Tuesday, July 1

AdSense, one week on

Seems there are quite a few people now who have successfully joined Google's AdSense programme. At xanadb the aim is to buy a GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual - Russell Beattie is going to fund his addiction to rack servers.

My experiences to date are of not getting any ads to show up on some pages (the Sun Bloggers page for example - the community service ads are Google's space fillers), very slow replies to tech support requests, an e-mail with accusations of rigging when the click rate was high on the first few days, and the placement of ads on Sue's shop that lead straight to her competitors (at least her prices are uniformly lower than theirs, so far).

So while we're grateful for the cash Google say they will pay us one day, and the service is a welcome innovation, it's not 100% rosy.

posted at 4:05 PM (UK) | |

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