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Ad Network for pure AJAX application [closed]

Can anyone recommend an ad network/provider that allows the operator to serve ads using self-specified keywords? The site I am referring to is a text-content heavy full AJAX site (Newsreader App) that ...
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Alternative to Google Adsense which has good international coverage

I have a technical blog (programming related) which has around 500 visit per days, 70% are international visitors and 30% are from US/CA. Google Adsense disabled my account due to invalid clicks so I ...
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Website with a 30% non english content (70% english) can be accepted in Tribal Fusion?

I'm just wondering If a website has a 30% non English content, will the Tribal Fusion Ad Network still accepts it's application. My website has a 30% non english content and 70% english. I don't want ...
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How many advertisers can I expect to get on my site of 400,000 page view per month [closed]

I am trying to figure out how many advertisers I can realistically expect to draw to my website if I have 400,000 page views per month. I know there isn't a magic number but a ballpark would be ...
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Using HTTP (insecure) ad providers on HTTPS (secure) site

As more and more browsers adopt stringent checks around preventing insecure content served up on secure sites, there is impact on the use of ad networks which in many cases don't support the secure ...
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How many visitors block adverts?

On average, what percentage of visitors block adverts, for example by running AdBlock? (The average obviously depends on the population, which is worth specifying, but any answer's better than ...
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New kind of ads is sliding on the right side of screen on each and every site [closed]

Some kind of ads is showing on stackexchange.com also.. Which company is providing is it google. or is it affecting me only... http://i.stack.imgur.com/0o3nE.png
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Auditing ads served on websites for malware / badware - Does such a service exist?

We recently had a bit of a scare on one of the web properties we administer. One of the 3rd party advertisers that we use had an advertiser who was distributing malware. Although this only took ...
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AdSense vs personal advertising system

I have a website that gets +10,000 hits a month. I currently have AdSense running on it but I am finding that I am barely getting any clicks or ad revenue at all. I was wondering if I would do any ...
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Should I create a mobile version of my site if my Adsense revenue is mostly from mobile visitors?

I have a website running Adsense. According to Google Analytics, most of the revenue is from mobile visitors. Currently the website does not have a mobile version and does not sport a ...
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What is a good network for full-page rich ads?

I'm currently developing a website where users will be able to upload content. I would like to be able to show a full-page ad whenever someone tries to view the content. The ad should take up most of ...
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Is there a class or id that will cause an ad to be blocked by most major adblockers?

Is there a general class or ID for a html element that a high majority of popular adblockers will block on a website it has no information for. My intention is to have my advertisement blocked, ...
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How do paid posts work?

I just had someone email me asking how much it would cost for a paid post with a link? It would be 300 words and provide a link to his website. Is this common and what's it called?
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The $1000-Dollar Bill [closed]

So I know that this question will vary heavily for the type of website, but here it is. Imagine you have a $1000 to spend on your new website. You can handle development and hosting yourself. In ...
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What free website system do you recommend to promote intepretation/translation services [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am a business interpreter based in Hangzhou,China. I am considering to mount an independent website to promote my ...
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software for managing ads on site [closed]

Could you recommend software to manage ads on a website? I'm talking about self managed banners, not adwords or anything like that. what are some of the commonly used ones? Thanks
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Are there any region specific advertising platforms, alternative to AdSense?

I'm wondering if AdSense is the best advertising platform to use for international/multi-lingual websites. When trying an AdSense sandbox preview tool, I have noticed that for example the Chinese ...
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Is there an ad network which will let me specify custom advertisement sizes? [closed]

I'm just wondering if any of you know of an ad network that provides ads in custom dimensions chosen by the publisher. AdSense and other popular networks have a bunch of ads with pre-defined sizes, ...
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Can a video uploader block ads if he/she does not own all content?

If my video contains a musical recording and the owner of the recording master rights authorizes YouTube to place ads on the video, do I have the right / capability to prevent ads from being ...
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what counts as a “pageview”

My main index.html page consists of 2 parts (it is written in html & jquery/javascript): a fixed header that is always at the top of the page a content page that is loaded when a user clicks a ...
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What is the average acquisition cost of a Facebook “Like”?

Suppose you want to invest in a Facebook ad, targeted to a specific audience, how many $ would I need to spend to get one "Like" in my Facebook fan page? Note: I know not all users, industries, ads, ...
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Dropping adverts during responsive design changes

I was looking at the new Smashing Magazine design and first of I have to say, it looks great. One thing that grabbed my attention though was that the Right Hand Side adverts get dropped during the ...
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Mentioning celebrities as customers

My client owns a dry cleaning business. He serves people who stay at certain hotels in NYC. Some celebrities have been his customers while staying at those hotels. He would pick up and deliver their ...
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Adsense ad removal and refresh

Are we allowed to remove AdSense advertisement and replace it with another or one from a different ad network once the original ad is loaded and, say, 10 seconds have passed? This is exactly what ...
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Looking for PHP/MySQL-based ad manager

Could you recommend based on your experience a PHP/MySQL-based admin interface for managing your website ads? In order to be really useful, such application should have: -basic CRM functionality to ...
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Is it acceptable to contact a potential customer who has accessed your site, using their IP?

We run ad campaigns to attract potential customers to our website. Sometimes customers click, but don't make contact. Is it acceptable to reach out to these customers, based on the public info ...
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How to maximise revenue from limited number of advertisers

Suppose you have a page that ranks very well for a very specific subject (and gets a reasonable amount of traffic). You don't provide what the visitors are looking for but there are just 3 companies ...
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What are differences between Sell Side Platforms (Admeld) and Self-Serve Platform (AdReady)?

I was confused with sell side platforms (eg. Admeld) and self-serve platforms (eg. AdReady) as both are serving services to publishers. I would like to know the differences in order to get the ...
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effect of page speed on ad revenue

I'm thinking of slowing my pageloads a bit, and want to know how much ad revenue will decrease due to the slowness. For ads on a revenue-per-impression (CPM) basis, I have to worry about decreased ...
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Using AdSense to show ads to logged-in users

I know that you can grant authorization permissions to Google AdSense so that it can 'log in' and see what other logged in users can see (e.g. in a private forum), so that the ads it displays are ...
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PPC advertising publishing options on on an Ajax/Dynamic site?

Does anyone know of an advertising programme which will allow a highly ajax-ified site to be monetized? Google seems to have ramped down its Ajax-Adsense experiment (no longer accepting ...
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Is there an upper limit on the number of Adsense adverts placed on one page?

I would like to add 20 Google banner ads below my web page's content so I can increase my Pay Per Impression earnings, is there any upper limit on the number of adverts I can display?
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Softonic displaying Google Ads for my software in Google search

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but not sure where else to ask.. I was doing a Google search to check the results of my Software's name which I sell on my website. I ...
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With Google DFP (Small Business) is it possible to disable AdSense in an Ad Slot on a per-request basis?

Setup: I run a network of websites that target different hobby niches and have a section dedicated to community classifieds. I serve advertising on these sites through Google DFP for Small Business ...
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Google Analytics include querystring

I've taken an advert out on a site with instruction to point it to: http://www.example.com/?source=gmb In Analytics, how do I go about analysing it's data? I can't find anywhere to see people who ...
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How premium ad networks calculate the payout?

I'm wondering how premium ad networks (The Deck, Carbon Ads, Fusion Ads, etc..) calculate the payout for publishers. The problem is they have a fixed price for a fixed timeframe (30 days or a week) ...
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Blog suitable Adsense format

I saw blog which has nice formated Google Adsense ads, but I don't know how to generate them. Here is a screenshot: http://imgur.com/U0mzk (sorry for plain link but I'm too fresh here to use img tag ) ...
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adsense and click bombing

I wonder what happens if I have a website with adsense and a user wittingly clicks the ads many times for a long time with result to ban my account. Google bots will trace this behavior and I suppose ...
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Is there an industry standard for “the fold”?

We often get requests to put an ad over or below "the fold" - the visible portion of the screen on page load, a term derived from newspapers which are delivered folded in half. I use Chrome on a Mac ...
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Are there any ad networks that serve ads over SSL? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Ad service that supports ssl (secure publishing) I have recently enabled SSL on my site, now my google ads cause some browsers to complain about unsecured content ...
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What are impressions in Google Webmasters?

I see that Google Webmasters give me some numbers as impressions, and of course, I know impression literal meaning. But can anyone please explain what impressions are in the context of Search Engine? ...
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Google adsense and dynamic pages

I want to show Adsense in search results that come from my database. How could google adsense bot determine what ads to show? Does it do so on the flow, i mean, there is no previous page it can ...
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PHP / Database Advertising Directory [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? What would it cost or is there already a system with a CMS like Joomla that would create the back-end of a website ...
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Ad software to rotate text links?

I am currently using OpenX to rotate text links but I don't think search engines can spider these links. What software can I use to do this?
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free Ad serving solution for smaller php websites

I'm looking for a very simple ad serving solution on my website, that can be hosted on my website. I have used openX and found it a bit complex for my needs. basically I need; A way for advertisers ...
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What liability concerns do advertising vendors raise, and how can I address them?

One of the websites I administer wants to provide free advertising in the form of direct links to vendors at an event they are running. Up until now, there has been no advertising whatsoever on the ...
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Google Ads Blocking Other Site Elements From Loading

I'm using Google DFP to serve Adsense ads. In Google Chrome (this doesn't seem to happen in other browsers), the page will get stuck loading pagead2.googlesyndication.com. It will just load for hours ...
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Monitoring offline conversion of online advertisements

I'm working for a company that is beginning with online advertisement and the following challenge was set: How can you monitor the effectivess of the advertisement in actual sales? The real ...
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Why My Adsense Account is not accepted

I have created a blog on blogger few days ago and created two blog entries on it. when i try creating AdSense account with blog's address it does not accept the application due to PageType. i have ...
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Why is Project Wonderful mostly only used for web comics?

I've looked a few times at placing ads on my site, but the only ad system I've liked is Project Wonderful. The problem with it is that almost every existing publisher(and thus, probably advertiser) is ...