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Adsense Earnings Down - Because Of This?

by Tony Dean
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I happened to visit a local internet cafe recently and saw a young lady on a computer taking notes of the Adwords Ads that came up and noting the url's of the advertisers.

Why take a list of the url's (which are clearly displayed under each ad for all to see) when she could click on the links and go there?

My feeling was she was amassing a few local companies url's who could help her and did not want to cause an obvious expense to the advertiser by clicking on their ads.

This means of course, that the advertiser will later, get a new customer without paying, and the publishers of Adsense Ads on websites would get nothing in commission.

Why do Google publish the full url of advertisers like that where users can note the url and put it in their browser address bar later?

Does this make a farce of Adsense publishing?
#adsense #earnings
  • Profile picture of the author Mike Grant
    She's probably someone who does SEO or is a consultant.

    Finding someone paying $$ to be on the first page of search, but not having an organic listing = a goldmine of leads.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by Tony Dean View Post

    I happened to visit a local internet cafe recently and saw a young lady on a computer taking notes of the Adwords Ads that came up and noting the url's of the advertisers.

    Why take a list of the url's (which are clearly displayed under each ad for all to see) when she could click on the links and go there?

    My feeling was she was amassing a few local companies url's who could help her and did not want to cause an obvious expense to the advertiser by clicking on their ads.

    This means of course, that the advertiser will later, get a new customer without paying, and the publishers of Adsense Ads on websites would get nothing in commission.

    Why do Google publish the full url of advertisers like that where users can note the url and put it in their browser address bar later?

    Does this make a farce of Adsense publishing?
    That's not logical.

    Google tries and make it easy to get customers for adwords users.
    Plus, there's this trust factor about showing the proper url if warranted.

    Maybe it was her own site.

    Maybe she was getting urls to block.

    Maybe the ads were on a search page, then there is no adsense publisher.

    Google does not guarantee clicks.

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    OP, why didn't you ask her why she was writing down the URLs.

    Also how do you know she was writing down the Adword URLs, the SERP is full of organic URLs?
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    • Profile picture of the author almondj
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      OP, why didn't you ask her why she was writing down the URLs.
      This and more of it. There could be hundreds of reasons why she was writing down the urls. Maybe she thought the ads were organic results or is working on a school project (young lady.)
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  • Profile picture of the author officer_iron
    Yeah, I have a hard time believing that she was doing this to avoid having the companies pay for the clicks. If by some chance that this IS the reason, there's a verrrrrry small group of people that would even have any clue to do that. Nobody in the general public of the internet would even understand that theory.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jim Hudson
    I have done this myself off of search pages and went to the url. Sometimes it was just a fake or not fully disclosed on the url and I found nothing. I saved a few click nickels for some folks, but it didn't cost the publisher because there was none.
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  • Profile picture of the author testboss
    WEll thats some thing amazing most of the time people just click on the url to see what information is there and after that they make calls she must be doing some thing else.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tony Dean
    It's no stretch of the imagination that some people do not like to give marketers a penny if they can help it. Some people may be avoiding clicking on links on your website and just typing in the url as they see it and avoid giving you - the Adsense publisher - any money at all.

    It just amazes me that with all the PhD's at Google they don't figure this out, that you need to obscure the link to stop people going around the Adsense publisher.
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    If she doesn't click on the ads, then Google doesn't make any money either. One could only assume that if Google though for one split second that having the URL displayed was costing them money then that URL would be gone for sure.

    Personally, I wouldn't worry about that one bit. In the end, Google is going to do what makes itself and it's publishers the most money. What you observed is too rare to worry about.

    Additionally, the other 99.999% of the population is too lazy to not click on the link if they want to visit the site.
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