Comments on: Traffic Exchanges and Google Adsense

By: Ssharon

Ssharon — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:07:12 +0000

of course, why wouldn’t Google be cashing in on it?

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:02:04 +0000

That does make sense. I’m sure there’s a way around it.

The way they explained it to me was that they didn’t like the fact that people had an incentive, other than my content, to visit my site… and thusly see the ads. Which would produce ad impressions that no one is really going to pay attention to, thusly wasting people’s ad dollars.

I get both reasons though. I’m sure that one day they’ll sort all that out. For now, this is the only fair solution I can come up with.

By: Ray White

Ray White — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:53:29 +0000

The reason Google does not like Adsense displayed in Traffic Exchanges is they cannot distinguish that the ads are being seen by different people.

When a site is placed in a traffic exchange, it is shown within a frame, all coming from the same IP address. Even though there may be thousands of people seeing your site, Google only sees it as one IP and therefore will ban your adsense account.

They cannot comprehend yet how traffic exchanges really work. :)

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:59:15 +0000

Now you can’t get much more ironic than that! Advertising on something that doesn’t support your method of advertising! Actually, I see them too. They’re both affiliate links. Someone is trying to buy their downline through adwords.

You’re right, funny how they’re OK if you actually pay for your impressions but not OK if you get them for free. Sounds pretty silly to me.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:52:08 +0000

Advertising – I mean paying for ads for Google Adsense, Yahoo or Adbrite. Those they are okay with, of course, after you start paying the big bucks.

Traffic exchanges it doesn’t like period….

By: Scott - 3D Metropolis

Scott - 3D Metropolis — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:03:04 +0000

The great thing is that the Ads by Google on this page are showing me two ads for traffic exchange programs right now :-)

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:24:32 +0000

and here I was going to check them out in the next couple of days. I suppose I still can so long as I have to manually add urls to advertise I can inject the ?te=1 query. I’m just afraid that all these blog specific traffic exchanges will use RSS feeds… which I don’t have much control over… yet.

And no, google is not OK with paid traffic exchange. Not so far as I can see. They still see it as people being encouraged to give false impressions. I don’t agree completely. Maybe if it was an autosurfer and not one where they are probably interested in the content.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:18:43 +0000

I just find it really funny, that Google’s okay if you actually paid for the traffic exchanges, instead of getting it for free….

That’s why I have stopped using Blog Explosion. But then, Blog Explosion has no tolerance for Blogs generating revenue from Google Adwords.

So I guess that evens it out…..