Anyone try Google AdSense?

[RX69]

I applied for Google ad-sense for a few of my sites. Only 1 was approved. Anyhow, it has only been running for about 14 hours and has brought in around $12.00 Anyone else making money off this, and do they pay ontime etc.....

[rxmary]

They've denied every website I've applied with. LOL

[DEWIE42]

I had it on about 5 sites, then out of no where they emailed me and said my sites were disapproved and to take the coding out smileys/smiley5.gif

[RX69]

Did they at least pay you for the time you had it running Dewie?

[DEWIE42]

Nope.......smileys/smiley6.gif

[Shark Attack]

To clarify our position on drug paraphernalia, we do not allow the advertisement of controlled substanfces or any items that are primarily intended or designed for use in manufacturing, concealing, or using a controlled


(illicit) substance.


I hope this information helps.


Please feel free to email us at adsense-support@google.com if you have additional questions or concerns. For technical support, please email


adsense-tech@google.com.


Sincerely,


The Google Team

[pillz]

Hmm, I use them on a canadian pharm site and the adsense brings in more than the actual sales from the pharm. I'll let others pay high prices for my non-converting keywords.

[Shark Attack]

Not sure how you got approval, did you have an existing non OP site and just use that the Asense code on the canadian pharm site. I can't imagine you got atraight approval on a pharmacy site, if you di I might try an apply again. More importantly have you been paid ? Good luck to you because I don't think it is allowed

[RX69]

Can you use the code from one site and put it on another or will they be able to tell? I do not have it on any pharm sites, but would imagine would work well with all the traffic they get. They say they pay once a month if your earnigs are over $100.00 Anyone been paid??

[redex]

I have been paid but the ads run on travel sites.

[Shark Attack]

You are not allowed adsense on any of the sites we all work on, yess you could put your code on but sooner or later they will pick this up and not pay you.


RX69 - The whole idea is to put the whole on loads of sites once you get the first approved, then you get one consolidated check . The downside is that you can't see which site is doing well.

[RX69]

Shark Attack, how would they sooner or later pick up on the fact you put your code on a different site? Please excuse my ignorance, I am just wondering. I will no do it if it is going to jepordize a paycheck, just cant see how they would be able to track it?

[Shark Attack]

I'm no techie but if you put your code on a "Viagra" site and Google Adsense started serving ads relating to this then I am sure their are checks in place at Google for them to say "het whats this - we don't allow Durg related ads" and then check out the site serving them.

[medicineman]

Googleis servingAdWords ads for prescription drugs like Phendimetrizine and Didrex right now. So if they're willing to serve the ads, why would theyobject tohaving AdSense placed on an Rx site?


Google's AdSense Program Policies states that sites may not include illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia. Read it at https://www.google.com/adsense/policies. I don't think diet pills likePhendimetrazine and Didrex fall into the category of illicit drugs, but it sure would be nice to have some furtherclarification.


DEA Scedule I drugs like heroin and LSD would be expected to fall into the "illicit" category, and so would Schedule II drugs like morphine and cocaine. Schedule III and above have less potential for abuse and are less controlled. Drugs like certain diet pills fall into Schedule III and above. However, all drugs on DEA schedule I through V are classified as "controlled", and that does include diet pills like Phendimetrazine, Didrex and Phentermine.


By the way, Viagra is not listed on the DEA list of controlled substances.


Would the people who had their sites rejected by Google for AdSense please tell us how "illicit" the drugs on their site were.

[redex]

That is probably not the reason. They clicked the ads on their own site more than once and got banned. smileys/smiley4.gif


Google also looks at the ration of impressions vs. clicks. If it is out of line, you are gone.

[Shark Attack]

Also diet pills likePhendimetrazine and Didrex would fall into the category "drug paraphernalia". That's my take on it following emails from Google on the subject

[medicineman]

According to Merriam-Webster, paraphernalia means 'accessory items'. So aren't we talking about needles and stuff like that.

[Shark Attack]

ok, I'm going to try and put Adsense on a site of mine and see how I go. I have been refused before but you never know.


These are the steps I have taken to date:


1. I wrote an email to Google asking whether I could put code on www.my (http://www.my) onlinerxsite.com , they immediately came back an said:


Thank you for your continued interest in Google AdSense.


As outlined in the site overview (https://www.google.com/adsense/overview (https://www.google.com/adsense/overview))


You are allowed to place the AdSense ad code on any page you want that also conforms to our policies.


The AdSense ad code on the 'Ad layout code' page is valid for any page in any site on which you want to display AdWords ads. Simply add the HTML code to any page that complies with our program policies, and we'll automatically detect the new site. To place the script on a new site, please follow these steps:


1. Log in to your account at https://www.google.com/adsense (https://www.google.com/adsense)


2. Click the 'Ad layout code' link under the 'Settings' tab


3. Copy the ad code for the layout you want


4. Paste the code into the appropriate page on your site


Please note that we constantly monitor all of the web pages displaying AdWords ads. If we find that one of your web pages violates our policies, we will notify you and ask you to remove the AdSense ad code from that page.


Please feel free to email us at adsense-support@google.com if you have additional questions or concerns. For technical support, please email


adsense-tech@google.com.


Sincerely,


The Google Team


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To access your AdWords account, please log in at: https://adwords.google.com (https://adwords.google.com/)


2. I placed code on a page withmany affiliate links relating to one drug and on one that was very content heavywth fewaffiliate links on.


3. Immediately I got proper ads on the content page but just the public information ads on the drugs page ( this could just be because there are many links already on the page and Google doesn't like this - nothing to do with drugs).


4. Going to put code on another content page with few affiliate links and see what happens.


Will keep you posted.

[medicineman]

If Google can't figure out what your drugs page is about because it'slittle more thana pile of affiliate links, then I wouldn't be surprised to see PSA ads. Give it a couple days and if the PSA's don't go away, throw some content on there. Targeted content.


Please do keep me posted, Shark, and I'llalso reportif my sites run afoul of AdSense. I have nothing illicit on them, unless diet pills are illicit, and no paraphernalia, so hopefully the Adsense will stick. Does generate a little revenue while trying to work out problems with messed up merchants. I've only got about a week of experience with AdSense on OP sites so we'll see what happens. It's probably a crap shoot.

[pillz]

I've had adsense running on op's since the start of adsense with no problems at all. They've paid me more than 1k so far as many of the clicks are quite expensive that people are paying.

[medicineman]

I justremoved AdSense from my OP site after just about 5 days and little to no clicks of any value.


They kept displaying mostlydiet pill ads on my viagra pages. Best I can tell, there was no inventory of viagra ads for AdSense sites, so they displayed something more general, namely diet pills like phentermine. I think I saw one viagra ad near the bottom of the skyscraper ad list.


Naturally, we wouln't expect many people looking for viagra to click on diet pills.


I'd sure like to hear from the others if they were getting viagra targeted AdSenseads on their viagra OP pages.

[iggy]

why would you need adsense when the op's pay so much per sale?

[Shark Attack]

I'mbusy putting code on some pages and then taking it off in an attempt to find out if overall I am making more of a profit. Certainly I have made a lot on some days, but then I haven't run it long enough to see if a drop in sales means I am making less overall. I have a lot of testing to do, because for me I think for some pages it will work really well.

[medicineman]

Iggy, all of the OP's don't pay so well all of the time. I was hoping I could drop AdSense on pages that are pulling trafficbut sending the visitors to non-performing OP's.


So far, it doesn't seem to work for me due to poor targeting of ads. As I mentioned above, diet pill ads can't be expected to work well on pages that are pulling traffic for Viagra. I do have a fewnon-performing diet pill pages with AdSense and they are displaying targeted diet pill ads but the results aren't clear yet. I don't have enough of these to be running a good test.


I don't plan to put AdSense on pages with links to performing OP's.