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Googleads

by katied772
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What the heck are googleads on adsense? They don't pay sh**!
#googleads
  • Profile picture of the author cmorgansweb
    Actually it depends on the activity of your site. I've had checks from Google on sites that received a lot of visitors, my husband has a site and google cuts him a check every other month.
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    • Profile picture of the author katied772
      Originally Posted by cmorgansweb View Post

      Actually it depends on the activity of your site. I've had checks from Google on sites that received a lot of visitors, my husband has a site and google cuts him a check every other month.
      I'm not talking about clicks to regular adsense ads. There is something coming up in my stats as clicks, not to my ads but to googleads and they pay nothing.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        You've got to explain what you mean by googleads.

        Google runs adssens, so it makes sense for them to
        run ads for their own products, if that's what you mean.
        And they do pay for a valid click.

        If you are talking about something else, well, if I
        have adsense and get 100 visits and no
        clicks, can I assume google doesn't pay $#!t?

        If I get 2 clicks and no money, can I then say,
        well, adsense doesn't pay $#!t?

        googleads makes no sense. Google runs a plethora
        of advertising networks.

        googleads, by definition, would be adsense generated
        from any of their networks, including adwords users
        who want to target certain sites.

        But again, just because you get no money at the moment,
        does not mean they don't pay. Some clicks are invalid for
        a variety of reasons. You can't force people to click.

        Paul
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        • Profile picture of the author katied772
          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          You've got to explain what you mean by googleads.

          Google runs adssens, so it makes sense for them to
          run ads for their own products, if that's what you mean.
          And they do pay for a valid click.

          If you are talking about something else, well, if I
          have adsense and get 100 visits and no
          clicks, can I assume google doesn't pay $#!t?

          If I get 2 clicks and no money, can I then say,
          well, adsense doesn't pay $#!t?

          googleads makes no sense. Google runs a plethora
          of advertising networks.

          googleads, by definition, would be adsense generated
          from any of their networks, including adwords users
          who want to target certain sites.

          But again, just because you get no money at the moment,
          does not mean they don't pay. Some clicks are invalid for
          a variety of reasons. You can't force people to click.

          Paul
          I am well aware of all that. I have 3 different size adsense ads on my sites and when get a click it lists which ad size it was on. But, lately, some of the clicks have not listed any of my regular ad sizes; it simply says googleads and unlike the other ads on my site that typically pay very well per click, these are always paid at 0-1 cents. I wondered if this is something new or something I have simply not had before. Obviously the clicks have to be going to one of my ads but why is it listed differently than normal and paid at practically nothing? Just thought someone here might have noticed the same thing and know why.

          BTW, when I click on the exit link for this in my statcounter in WP admin. it says googleads.g.doubleclick.net and goes to what looks like one of my regular ad units.
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