AdSense Brings Back Classic Ad Code Generation
About a month after Google AdSense introduced an ad creation wizard, designed to walk publishers through the process of creating ads, they have brought back the option of using the classic system. Clearly, they realized that many publishers were complaining that they didn’t need the handholding, and were more productive with the old system, and Google listened, and delivered. You can use either system, just hit the link:
I’m glad they’ve done this. Anyone who has to create a large number of ads was probably very irritated by having to click back and forth, and will welcome the return to a single page system.
They’ve also introduced a wizard option for AdSense For Search, and again, they kept the single page as an option.
In other news, if you remember the AdSense BlackList story from last week, there have been questioned raised about the reliability of the person run the Ads BlackList site. I’m not going to get involved with the AdSense community (that would require a whole nother blog, so hopefully they’ll all sort this out.
If you’re looking for a reliable blacklist, here’s mine:
- rojo.com
- text-link-ads.com
Not that they’re bad, they just buy too much inventory.
Regardless of the reliability of “Ana Thema”, the person questioning the credibility of the person behind the blacklist site, I have a message for him/her: When questioning the credibility of others, it is wise to mind your own. I am far less likely to stand behind you when you send this to Michael McDonald:
You sent me an incredibly naive and stupid article by Nathan Weinberg that is about adsenseblacklist. You dumbshits are so behind the curve about that site.
Ana, if you are willing to tone it down, I welcome you to write about the AdSense community right here. Seriously. I can’t cover all that myself, and I have always admitted that. But if people want deeper coverage, I’d like to point them at sources I can trust, and sources I can trust to be professional.
Also, Barry reports that Made For AdSense sites are using redirects, like TinyURLs, to get around blacklists. Hmm… Guess we should blacklist TinyURL. Or at least Google should already be. I almost used a TinyURL for my ads, since Google didn’t like me putting “google” in my ad URL.
And finally, everybody’s been linking to CyberWyre’s listings of the most expensive AdSense keywords, topping with “mesothelioma lawyers” and “chicago personal injury lawyer”. I’ve got a major project in the works that involves a lot of those things, so stay tuned.
I blogged the cyberwyre listing (in fact my post was mostly about xooglers), but the inclusion of a couple of examples of those high price keywords was enough for Blogger to suspend my Blogger account as a spam blog.
A (human) review of the site reinstated it, but their automated spam flagging algorithms seem to be extremely sensitive to those keywords.
Comment by zmarties | April 4, 2006
Your blacklist doesn’t seem to be working, because I can see ads from Text-Link-Ads.com still. There’s a massive one just below this comment box, actually.
Comment by Huw | April 4, 2006
Zmarties: That really sucks. Thank god you got back in, but considering that this post triggered a bunch of mesothelioma ads, any publisher discussing that sort of thing should be cautios.
Huw: Oh, that was a theoretical blacklist. I don’t need to blacklist anymore sites that I normally would, for reasons I can’t discuss here.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | April 4, 2006