Google Ads

[nomad]

Do you use Google Ads (formerly Google Adwords) for advertising? How often do you run ad campaigns through Google Ads? Well, I have used Google Ads multiple times, however, these days I no longer use Google Ads. I find Facebook ads a lot easier. Google Ads is basically a CPM and CPC ad network for advertisers. You can bid on ads through CPC and CPM models.

 

[Nebulous]

I tried using them way back in the day. They banned me for some reason. Something about invalid clicks I think. I never tried to cheat the system and tried to appeal several times, they never accepted the appeal.

 

[McConnaughay]

I tried using them way back in the day. They banned me for some reason. Something about invalid clicks I think. I never tried to cheat the system and tried to appeal several times, they never accepted the appeal.

They have changed the policy since then. I was banned once myself, but I was able to make a new account and it seems that a lot of the issues surrounding improper banning have been mitigated.

Honestly, one of the biggest issues I have had, as of late, is honestly clicking my own ads - sincerely by mistake - simply because the little buggers would sometimes catch me off-guard (I have had to some adjusting to keep the ads a certain way, not embedded in the text, not pop-ups, etc.). Also, in general, my website is obviously a website I visit very frequently. With how intrusive and "all knowing" ads have become, it isn't uncommon for them to recommend me a sale for a WordPress theme I want or something I may want to look at. (I usually just go to the website directly in that regard, but I'm just saying.)

I have found that they haven't held it against me and simply recognize that I was the one to click it and thereby negate it (don't pay me for the click), which I appreciate.

Ads, in general, pay a lot less than they used to, however.

I had one forum that did relatively well and was able to pull in a couple hundred a month around a decade ago, and that was without a concentrated effort on viewership or advertising our website anywhere. Nowadays, I have trouble getting one-hundred a month on certain sites, in spite its much higher viewership count and I *do* put a lot into viewership and advertising.

 

[Mike30]

I tried using them way back in the day. They banned me for some reason. Something about invalid clicks I think. I never tried to cheat the system and tried to appeal several times, they never accepted the appeal.

It did happen to me too. I believe their algorithm got it wrong at that time.


I have tried to use google ads, but I feel it's a pain for users and is not worth what they pay anymore.

 

[Uncrowned]

I have used them to great success for views on my written content, but getting members is pretty slim. Granted, I basically have a personal rep at this point as Uncrowned Addiction has a tough time against their bots as they always auto suggest adding "addiction" into the keywords and then block the ad for containing the word "addiction", a fun cycle 😅.

They do seem to still win out on cost per click for me.