Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website

Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by madcoderme on Sunday April 28, 2024 @02:03AM (#40186363)

> I looked into a half-dozen or so alternatives, but all the other companies were either simply Google ads re-sellers, which is an ecosystem I don't quite understand, or were extremely sketchy, and had reviews complaining about how they trick people into downloading malware and such.

This is so true. I have tried to monetize my tools with ads quite a few times before, and the only way was to use Adsense. It's actually crazy how there is literally no quality alternative.

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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by gregw134 on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:24AM (#40186717)

Doesn't Microsoft have an ad network?

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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by madcoderme on Sunday April 28, 2024 @12:00PM (#40189541)

Yes, but not as distributed as adsense

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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by jokethrowaway on Sunday April 28, 2024 @02:33AM (#40186493)

Funnily enough some Google resellers are paying more than Google.

I have no clue how, they must be burning investors' money

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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by chillfox on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:43AM (#40186808)

They provide curation to the ad buyers. Basically the marketplace is broken for both sides.

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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by fikama on Sunday April 28, 2024 @02:29PM (#40190652)

Could you elaborate please ? You got me intrested but I can't make anything of what you mean by "curation".

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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by chillfox on Sunday April 28, 2024 @07:31PM (#40192951)

If you only want your ads next to quality content or on sites that are not drowning in ads so your ad is more impactful, then Google won’t help. But a third party can provide that through their curated list of sites.

Basically they are in the business of providing human curated targeting parameters instead of the algorithm based that Google supplies.

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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by fikama on Friday May 03, 2024 @05:04PM (#40252373)

Thanks :)

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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by unkulunkulu on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:44AM (#40186814)

Why couldnt they be “sudsidized” by G to uphold monopoly? If they bring in clients that otherwise are not going there? they simply cost more

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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by conradfr on Sunday April 28, 2024 @12:36PM (#40189789)

AdSense also has semi-scams that trick people into subscription through their ceil carriers.

And they are hard to block as a site owner as they seem to constantly have new accounts.

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