Comments on: This Should Scare You Click Collectors http://lostballinhighweeds.com/this-should-scare-you-click-collectors/ A Blogger's Struggle With Online Success Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:48:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: LR4 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/this-should-scare-you-click-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-68422 LR4 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:01:25 +0000 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/?p=752#comment-68422 All the more reason to quit with the spam sites and do real, quality sites. Then you got a shot at building something brand advertisers might be interested in. Pick stuff that even smaller businesses might be interested in. Like if you like cycling, a cycling site would appeal even to some smaller manufacturers... All the more reason to quit with the spam sites and do real, quality sites. Then you got a shot at building something brand advertisers might be interested in. Pick stuff that even smaller businesses might be interested in. Like if you like cycling, a cycling site would appeal even to some smaller manufacturers…

]]> By: Ray Davies http://lostballinhighweeds.com/this-should-scare-you-click-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-67900 Ray Davies Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:00:42 +0000 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/?p=752#comment-67900 Never mind this, where's Splork? Come back, we miss you! Ray Never mind this, where’s Splork? Come back, we miss you!

Ray

]]> By: scheng1 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/this-should-scare-you-click-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-67863 scheng1 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:27:01 +0000 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/?p=752#comment-67863 That's true. If readers dont click, we dont earn and Google does not earn too. That’s true. If readers dont click, we dont earn and Google does not earn too.

]]> By: Splork Fan http://lostballinhighweeds.com/this-should-scare-you-click-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-67335 Splork Fan Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:26:35 +0000 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/?p=752#comment-67335 Spot on, Splork. You confirmed what I always strongly suspected. Thats explains why there has been a steady decline in the number of scraper splogs over the past 2 years. For the simple reason, they don't pay well anymore, and they don't get clicked as much any more. Yay! The Web and the world is changing. Adsense has always been a risky business model, and its continued viability rests on the USD holding up. You just need to ask the simple question, why is Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube (all free) unable to pay their costs through PPC? This then begets the question, would subscription based services be the way forward in the coming future? Will the Internet continue to be free? Or as Murdoch puts it...Content should not be free.... Stuff to ponder on. Spot on, Splork. You confirmed what I always strongly suspected.

Thats explains why there has been a steady decline in the number of scraper splogs over the past 2 years. For the simple reason, they don’t pay well anymore, and they don’t get clicked as much any more. Yay!

The Web and the world is changing. Adsense has always been a risky business model, and its continued viability rests on the USD holding up.

You just need to ask the simple question, why is Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube (all free) unable to pay their costs through PPC?

This then begets the question, would subscription based services be the way forward in the coming future? Will the Internet continue to be free? Or as Murdoch puts it…Content should not be free….

Stuff to ponder on.

]]> By: Balph http://lostballinhighweeds.com/this-should-scare-you-click-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-67152 Balph Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:35:18 +0000 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/?p=752#comment-67152 Google could be destroyed by some irate Adsense publishers. All it takes is one person to get click happy on you and you can lose your account. Google is terrified of invalid clicks. If enough google-haters go on clicking sprees, Google will have to close down many an adsense account. If they go after the search pages, then Google will eventually have to live of CPM ads instead of cost per click. Being an adsense publisher is a very risky business model. But so is Google... The question is whether this is a good or bad thing. On the plus side, Google's billions supports a lot of free software. On the downside, Google is collecting a lot of information on all of use through its adsense windows. And most obvious to our community, Pay Per Click encourages Crap is King. If advertising was mainly branding vs. going for clicks, quality would be more valuable. Branders want to be associated with quality. Google could be destroyed by some irate Adsense publishers. All it takes is one person to get click happy on you and you can lose your account. Google is terrified of invalid clicks. If enough google-haters go on clicking sprees, Google will have to close down many an adsense account. If they go after the search pages, then Google will eventually have to live of CPM ads instead of cost per click.

Being an adsense publisher is a very risky business model. But so is Google…

The question is whether this is a good or bad thing. On the plus side, Google’s billions supports a lot of free software. On the downside, Google is collecting a lot of information on all of use through its adsense windows. And most obvious to our community, Pay Per Click encourages Crap is King. If advertising was mainly branding vs. going for clicks, quality would be more valuable. Branders want to be associated with quality.

]]> By: Splork http://lostballinhighweeds.com/this-should-scare-you-click-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-67080 Splork Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:16:55 +0000 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/?p=752#comment-67080 It's a study. Ignore it at your peril. I make money on whatever percentage is clicking. But I won't shrug it off as "ridiculous. It’s a study. Ignore it at your peril. I make money on whatever percentage is clicking. But I won’t shrug it off as “ridiculous.

]]> By: Roland http://lostballinhighweeds.com/this-should-scare-you-click-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-67077 Roland Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:26:40 +0000 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/?p=752#comment-67077 What a ridiculous post from someone who obviously has no idea what they're talking about. Percentages and numbers like that mean nothing. Social media has risen enormously over the past five years or so, and these people are clearly not the ones that are going to be buying or clicking online. The idea that targeted traffic has somehow begun to grow out of clicking ads is laughable. What a ridiculous post from someone who obviously has no idea what they’re talking about. Percentages and numbers like that mean nothing. Social media has risen enormously over the past five years or so, and these people are clearly not the ones that are going to be buying or clicking online. The idea that targeted traffic has somehow begun to grow out of clicking ads is laughable.

]]> By: Splork http://lostballinhighweeds.com/this-should-scare-you-click-collectors/comment-page-1/#comment-66996 Splork Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:17:39 +0000 http://lostballinhighweeds.com/?p=752#comment-66996 I don't disagree Phil but any way you cut it, 8%, and dropping, is not a good percentage no matter who is making the money and how efficient the ads are, social traffic or not. I'm guessing that if you want people to click something like an Adsense ad or affiliate link we better make sure that link answers their inquiry with a laser focus. Like you say, efficiency. Random clicking is apparently dying based on these studies. I don’t disagree Phil but any way you cut it, 8%, and dropping, is not a good percentage no matter who is making the money and how efficient the ads are, social traffic or not. I’m guessing that if you want people to click something like an Adsense ad or affiliate link we better make sure that link answers their inquiry with a laser focus. Like you say, efficiency. Random clicking is apparently dying based on these studies.

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