Non-income producing public service ads from adsense

[David G]

Isn't it amazing what with all the impressions from DNF and its great Alexa ranking and traffic that Google still insists on displaying free PSA ads on the DNF home page off and on basis most any day.

Just a few min ago when I logged on to dnf there was that big yellow PSA banner but when I later clicked the back button it was gone and a regular ad was there.

This also happens to my websites very often. Some sites had good adsense there for many mos., as long as 10 mos and all of a sudden the adsense now has PSA's, why in the world do they do that anyway? Anyone know?

[serra]

My guess: they don't have enough click required on that page for a period of time, so they just give public ads.
Reason: they want to show paying advertisers that their adsense system works based on the results on advertiser's control panel.

[David G]

My guess: they don't have enough click required on that page for a period of time, so they just give public ads. Reason: they want to show paying advertisers that their adsense system works based on the results on advertiser's control panel.

That would seem impossible as the DNF Home Page gets zillions more hits than my pages (and most other websites too) yet most of my pages (and most other sites) do not often display PSA's.

[serra]

Well, the thing is : do you or other members here ever click the banner on dnforum?
And how often?
The banner here always shows the same companies all the time.
Ok let me ask you, do you ever advertise on Google recently or ever?
You might understand what I am talking about if you are an advertiser there.
It is really a problem for me too because I have over 50,000 page views/day on a few of my sites alone.

[David G]

Well, the thing is : do you or other members here ever click the banner on dnforum? And how often?

You would need to get the CTR disclosed by DCG (in violation of the G TOS)for it to make any statistical sense. Only G and DNF knows the CTR, and even DNF may not know as they may have more than 1 website in their adsense acct and individual stats are not readily there.

[serra]

no, it is a simple question of whether you personally ever click the banner and when did the last time you click the banner, I am not asking about a statistical data.

[David G]

no, it is a simple question of whether you personally ever click the banner and when did the last time you click the banner, I am not asking about a statistical data.

I don't get it, why would my clicking or not clicking the banner make any difference? But in reply to your question, no, I never clicked it, and in reply to your earlier questions, yes, I am also an Adwords customer too.

[serra]

that's what I means. Regular members get used to the banners that they never actually look what's on the banner. That means very low CTR.
If you use adwords, isn't your keyword going to get suspended if no one click through it for a certain CTR?
Maybe google try not to get many advertisers account suspended.