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Not Brilliant by hulver (2.00 / 0) #12 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 11:32:54 AM EST

Avg is 2 clicks a day. $0.10 a day.

Still, it's money for no effort on my part, which is the best sort :)
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That is low by cam (2.00 / 0) #16 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 12:38:40 PM EST

I thought HuSi would get more clicks than that given the variety of info and bizarre ads that pop up. The AFC site gets 0.07c a day.

May I suggest that you make the box behind the google-ad flash red and white until a person clicks on the ad. Then it is set to off (no blinking, just normal white background) for the rest of week. That might up the click through rates.

You wouldnt be breaking the terms of service but instead encouraging the HuSi readership to pay greater attention to the google ad-sense advertising.

cam
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you get money for click-throughs? by komet (2.00 / 0) #17 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 12:49:24 PM EST

I'll be clicking through every ad from now on.

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Juse Caution! by CheeseburgerBrown (4.00 / 2) #18 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 01:03:04 PM EST

Don't get too click happy, or Hulver'll get sacked with the old "fraudulent clicks!" e-mail and his AdSense account will be closed with no real path of recourse.

Also: some of us around here actually pay to advertise through Google, and we do so hate to hear talk of people who click on ads with no legitimate interest in the proffered product.

Also, please keep in mind that Hulver cannot really comment, as fishing for clicks goes against the AdSense TOS.

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Alright by komet (2.00 / 0) #22 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 01:07:42 PM EST

No more than two click-throughs a day, and only to sites which clearly need to be relieved of their money.

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: new and used curry paste by garlic (2.00 / 0) #32 Wed Mar 30, 2005 at 09:40:58 AM EST

on sale now, at ebay.

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IVMAWTP by Cloaked User (2.00 / 0) #19 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 01:04:35 PM EST

Hulver, do you get money for each click? I can click - I can click real good.

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Please do not by hulver (4.00 / 1) #21 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 01:07:07 PM EST

They are very quick to remove accounts for fraudulent clicks.
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You misunderstand, I think by Cloaked User (2.00 / 0) #26 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 01:54:40 PM EST

I literally meant clicking - I wouldn't be so unsubtle as to automate the process. Would they kick up a fuss (or even notice) if I were to click on every ad link I saw, do you think?

It's your call - I certainly don't want to cause any trouble.

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Yes by dn (2.00 / 0) #27 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 05:51:40 PM EST

Web ads mean billions of $CURRENCY to Google. They take click through funnies seriously.

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: when do they call foul? by mrgoat (2.00 / 0) #29 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 11:05:08 PM EST

I'll click through every google thingy except on husi lots of times, therefore voiding every advertising attempt accept through hulver.
He shall be our new advertising mind control overlord!
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Indeed, what RogerBorg said. by hulver (2.00 / 0) #20 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 01:05:08 PM EST

Please do not just click on the ads for the sake of clicking on them.
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Gah! by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #23 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 01:16:41 PM EST

Muzzled by the AdS TOS, I am reluctant to disclose my exact earnings, but I'd always (now I see incorrectly) assumed that they would be dwarfed by HuSi's earnings.

There's got to be some jiggering you can do to improve the CTR. Tried different colours, different positions? Where's kpaul when you need him? He's a bona fide expert.

P.S. Personally, I've found that AdLinks don't perform very well so far. Nobody clicks on them except webmasters running AdSense who want to check out the new toy.

How many raw page views does HuSi get in a day? (I'm not asking your AdSense impressions...that's against the gag order.) I guess more importantly, how many unique visitors?

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Well by hulver (2.00 / 0) #24 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 01:27:54 PM EST

There is a super sekrit stats that says the page views.

The stats for last month are skewed because of a change to the CSS handling.

I think we're getting around 20,000 page views a day, although how many are real people and how many are robots I don't know.

I'm not trying to increase traffic at the moment, because I'm waiting for the new server. We're finally getting OK performance and I don't want to spoil it.
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: Need Better Targetting by CheeseburgerBrown (2.00 / 0) #25 Thu Mar 24, 2005 at 01:45:35 PM EST

Okay, everybody go out and write a diary that's laced with high paying keywords, and then AdS will place higher paying ads on the margins.

I'm no expert, but don't all the smart geeks use the Overture bids as their benchmark for keyword value?

From my limited experience all I know is that "movie" related ads pay about 25x more than "misc" ones (like blog-related, computing-related, etc.). My only real incentive to post my oldest, crappiest movies on my website is because the AdS performance on those pages is absolutely phenomenal.

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