Google Ads

[deltatahoe]

after reading Admin' post and thinking about trying to bring in extra revenue for the site (in particular through google ads), i actually started looking at the "ads by google" on the site.

not surprisingly, a lot of the ads are about watches. however, i don't know about you guys, but i don't really have much interest in clicking on links to other watch related sites -- rwg meets most of my watch needs (and then some).

i don't know how the google ads work, but i would have to guess that the admin could provide some feedback re: what type of ads to post. so, i was wondering if it might be helpful to query the board to see what types of google ads people might be interested in clicking on...

my first suggestion: given what a success the rwg casino was back in the early days of rwg (when rwg cash flowed like wine), i would guess party poker or some other online gambling website would fare much better (and bring in more revenue for RWG) than watch related sites.

anybody have any other thoughts or suggestions?

dt

ps - Admin, you mentioned somewhere in one of your follow-up posts for members not to make "suggestions" for people to click the adsense ads; if you (or one of the other mods for that matter) think this post might be construed as such, feel free to delete it.

[davidk]

Google ads are automatically served according to the sites content. Therefore you see watch related ads.

I suggest they switch to Adbrite. It would allow RWG to set their own price per click, and it would allow advertisers to choose to have their ad on RWG. This would bring a variety of ads.

[Admin]

Google ads are automatically served according to the sites content. Therefore you see watch related ads.

I suggest they switch to Adbrite. It would allow RWG to set their own price per click, and it would allow advertisers to choose to have their ad on RWG. This would bring a variety of ads.

davidk is correct. The ads from google are based on the content on the page they are displayed.

The problem with adbrite is that advertisers actually have to purchase ads from RWG and that's not happening. I don't know if you have noticed, but for the last month or so, there has been adbrite ads at the bottom (general ads). Until last week, no advertisers had signed up for any advertising here at RWG. I could of course try and put them back in the ad-rotator that has been placed here or jut have them at the bottom, but for now google ads seem to be the only way of getting some cash generated from ads.