Author Topic: Google Adsense (Read 8910 times)

Zeggy · « **on:** October 01, 2006, 06:10:12 AM »

Do you use google adsense in your game?
Do you make a lot of money?

Sava · « **Reply #1 on:** October 03, 2006, 04:56:59 PM »

I used google adsense on my blog and made about 600 $. but I really did have a lot of traffic and good articles on coding. To bad I got banned from that forum and they closed my account and hosting also

Zeggy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2006, 02:21:04 PM »

From a forum?
Which one?

KingMonkey Throughout! · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2006, 04:57:59 PM »

lol yea which one

compuken · « **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2006, 01:23:19 PM »

Google seems to be my best money maker compared to globalinteractive, cj.com affliates program, and adbrite, my flash arcade website wasn't accepted into yahoo yet since there is too many of them.

Cripple · « **Reply #5 on:** October 14, 2006, 01:34:07 AM »

Quote from: Sava on October 03, 2006, 04:56:59 PM

I used google adsense on my blog and made about 600 $. but I really did have a lot of traffic and good articles on coding. To bad I got banned from that forum and they closed my account and hosting also

mighta been his own forum, had a few too many vodka shots 1 night & get all whoop-ass on himself

Comrade Ravenhawk · « **Reply #6 on:** November 05, 2006, 01:22:49 PM »

I have adesense on my blog..
I've made like..
$5

Mgccl · « **Reply #7 on:** November 09, 2006, 08:06:57 PM »

I made about 100$ from Google... used on buying PHP books...
Trust Google... like I trust myself

etali · « **Reply #8 on:** November 11, 2006, 03:44:59 PM »

I'm suprised to hear Google Adsense being one of the better performers for game type sites - I would have thought that CPM programmes would have performed better?

Does anyone here use CPM? If so, have you found it performs well or do you tend to get a lot of default / unpaid views?

Zeggy · « **Reply #9 on:** November 12, 2006, 04:44:15 AM »

Yeah, I think CPM would be better for game sites too.
I use CPM, and it's pretty nice.
I haven't got an active game at the moment so I can't say I'm earning much

But even for just a few views, I am earning a couple cents

I haven't seen any default ads myself yet.

CPA programs are also really good for games as well! You could earn so much if you chose the right cpa network...
You could have a special page where you list all the offers that your members can take part in. Then, if your network supports it, after they complete the offer you can automatically credit their account with extra cash or levels or whatever.
Since CPA pays quite a lot, I think you can make quite a nice bundle off it

The users will be motivated to complete them too, because they get an in-game reward.

compuken · « **Reply #10 on:** November 14, 2006, 08:11:54 AM »

The only cpm program I used so far was globalinteractive and they only paid me .09-.18 per thousand views, currenlty with google I am getting around .75-.90 per thousand views. I tried CJ.com and still have a few CPA ads cycling. Most of the CPA's ads say you cannot post incentives on your site for clicks or signups, I am sure that goes for all the actions that will pay.

The main problem with my flash arcade site is lack of players, I only have 350 people on a day, but I really haven't started a big promotion yet, I am waiting to finish up 2 of the php games me and a couple of friends are working on. Then we will rollout a huge promotion for all 3 sites and when we get enough pageviews, sign up to the big CPM advertisers that I heard pay $1 per thousand views.

Zeggy · « **Reply #11 on:** November 14, 2006, 08:43:59 AM »

Well, it also depends on what kinds of ads you are running.
Pop-unders and pop-ups pay quite a lot, maybe $6 CPM, but banners may only get you between 50 cents and 2 dollars.
And that's for well-paying networks.
I am using ValueClick media for my CPM ads, and they pay quite well. Every visitor counts, and every visitor is paid for, at least once cent

But it's only unique visitors, so if you have lots of return visitors, like most games do, you will be earning roughly the same every day.
And not all players come back.

ewwharhar · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2006, 07:32:14 PM »

I am starting to use ValueClick Media also. Lets see how that goes.

EvilDude · « **Reply #13 on:** December 20, 2006, 01:42:59 AM »

Yeah I use it... Haven't made much yet but then the site has just started up!

dvd871 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 20, 2006, 10:52:00 PM »

Running text ads of any sort on a gaming site is not going to make you rich. Best I ever did was $373 using google over a 3 month period. If you subtract hosting costs and time spent doing support, bug fixes, player support, site promotion, you would find, you lose.

EvilDude · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2006, 01:45:41 AM »

Your right, it's not going to make you bags of money. But some sites/corps do. Whether they use AdSense, I'm not sure.

dvd871 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 21, 2006, 02:03:36 PM »

If you have a site with a good amount of pageviews then you might be able to sell ad space. Google is ok, do get me wrong. Its nice to have when it comes time to pay the hosting bill

EvilDude · « **Reply #17 on:** December 21, 2006, 02:30:19 PM »

Quote from: dvd871 on December 21, 2006, 02:03:36 PM

hosting bill

The magic words!

Comrade Ravenhawk · « **Reply #18 on:** February 02, 2007, 11:52:13 PM »

I recently read that google scans what all your clicks were before they pay you and then if they see anything they deem suspicious (repeat clickers) they delete you and you don't get paid..

Well, I was cheating my ads.
So, should I just save time and delete my google account and make a new one? =/

Zeggy · « **Reply #19 on:** February 03, 2007, 04:00:17 AM »

I dunno. If you haven't been caught yet, then I guess you should stop clicking immediately. How often have you been doing it?
If it's just once a week or something, you could email google, apologize and say you accidentally clicked on your own ads a few times, and ask them to remove the credit for those clicks.

dvd871 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 03, 2007, 06:21:43 PM »

If it were me, I wouldn't say anything and wait to see what happens. If you were clicking your own ads hundreds of times, well...

If it was only a few times then I doubt that they will say much if anything.

Comrade Ravenhawk · « **Reply #21 on:** February 04, 2007, 01:38:11 PM »

Well, I was clicking about three, once every other day (roughly) for a semester.
See the issue is, I'm up to 10 dollars now and I'd have to wait till I hit $100, that'll be a lot of time down the drain.

compuken · « **Reply #22 on:** February 06, 2007, 01:31:19 PM »

I think your fine, just stop clicking your own ads or they will remove you.

My arcade site had some banner exchange programs going and google adsense as my revenue. When my google was about 3$ they sent me a warning email saying there was a lot of "invaild clicks coming in"- when I asked them what it meant and how to stop this from happening all I got was - you have invaild clicks coming in and if it continues they will delete my account. I got no help from them, seems they would rather delete me than help me and fix the problem and provide countless more ads for them! Anyway I found out that some chinese people are going to all the flash arcade sites in the banner exchange program and clicking the google ads over an over so I removed google adsense and the banner exchange programs too. If they didn't send you a warning message or ban you already you should be fine.

Comrade Ravenhawk · « **Reply #23 on:** February 06, 2007, 07:16:16 PM »

Oh, cool.
Thanks for the info, compuken. ^_^

toto · « **Reply #24 on:** February 09, 2007, 09:48:28 AM »

I think I'll just make apply geotargetting, and disable chinese surfers from some of my games - I got that google warning too, and not using AdSense is making me lose a lot of money.

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