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trealm
01-18-2007, 02:06 PM
I just signed up for a Bidvertiser account to check out a few of the alternatives. I must say that they have a long way to go as far as advertising options. Unless I want to pepper the pages with meaningless ads (at least meaningless as related to the site's content, itself) I have to decline most of the ads.

Anyone else run into this or is it more a money-making effort and "Who cares what the ads are so leave the high-paying ones even if they don't relate?"

Since it appears that Bidvertiser ads can appear on the same pages as Adsense ads, I wonder if leaving in the ads that promote online gambling (of which there are a LOT) would be considered "content" in the eyes of google and thus go counter to the TOS where it states that ads may NOT be served on gambling sites. Even if the site isn't a gambling site per se, I wonder if it could be seen as promoting the activity by the ads.

Reprobate
01-18-2007, 04:34 PM
I've found Bidvertiser to be a bit "clunky". Though I've only got it on one site and only logged in a couple of times when getting the ads I wanted for my site.

Perhaps I should play with it a bit more.

trealm
01-18-2007, 04:46 PM
I've found Bidvertiser to be a bit "clunky".

Definitely, I'm less than impressed at the moment. I've been going through the ads seeing what I would even want showing up on my site and I have to say that I'm getting rid of about 90% of them, which doesn't really leave too good of a pool left over. Lot of gambling and lot of "make money fast" ads which gives a cheap impression of what they are. No real quality ads from what I've seen :(

trealm
01-18-2007, 05:09 PM
Since it appears that Bidvertiser ads can appear on the same pages as Adsense ads....(snip)

I have long been under the impression that the two (adsense and bidvertiser) could not coexist on the same page. It was later stated that that wasn't the case because of contextual vs noncontextual issues, and a link was posted saying that it was okay (the link was not to an official Google statement) I am now back of the opinion that since, Bidvertiser mimics Adsense, they cannot coexist on the same page which would make my question above moot.