Advertising is the practice of producing text, images, or other media intended to influence others' purchasing decisions.
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Decent ad platforms that don't track [on hold]
Are there ad platforms that don't track?
I want to put a bit of ads on my personal blog for a bit of side money, but I don't want to intrude in my readers' privacy by allowing them to be tracked by ...
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Do Google Ads expenses influence Serps? [duplicate]
i'm considering turning off google ads expenses but I'm afraid my rankings are going to be influenced. Does anyone have experience with that?
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Running a news page with Google Adsense but the ads are not contextual
I have been running a news site (with articles in multiple languages) for years and have around 100,000 views per month. The site used to generate around 10-40 USD / day via Adsense but that was way ...
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Should I publish an empty ads.txt file for a site that does not run any ads?
I have seen a few 404 errors when ads.txt is requested on some of the sites that I manage. I Guess the answer may be identical to the question about an empty robots.txt file or no file at all (just ...
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Google AdWords ads are disapproved because “destination not working”
We have been having an issue setting up adwords for one of our clients and despite multiple phone calls to Google we cannot get an answer out of them as to why our ads are being disapproved.
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Show personalized ads outside Europe and non-personalized ads in Europe using Google Adsense?
Since my website has only a cookie acceptance message, I can not show personalized ads in the European Economic Area (EEA). Is it possible to show non-personalized Ads only in EEA?
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How many budget required for generating traffic of 20M monthly?
Hopefully its a right place to ask such question
Assuming that in my sector average CTR is 3%, adwords click cost is 1.5$ and target audience size is about 12M, how much money I should spent for ...
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Can Adsense auto ads (page-level ads) and DFP slots exist on same page
I am currently switching all my Adsense ad units to DoubleClick. The reason is to server multiple networks including Adsense.
However, DFP doesn't support auto ads. Hence, I have to leave without ...
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Is Double Click for Publishers limited one code for 1 place?
I have created a 728x90px horizontal advertising in Double Click for Publishers.
I placed the same code in two section in the website. Only one can be shown.
Is Double Click for Publishers limited ...
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Drastic drop in AdSense click through rate (CTR) from “Visit Site” button on mobile ad clicks
Google suddenly started showing a "Visit Site" button when a user clicks on my ads on my mobile site. This forces the user to click a second time to leave my site via the ad.
Google has said that ...
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Placing image based banner ads without affecting SEO
I have a website where I must place a banner ad. It's not an iframe or JS code like an AdSense ad. It is a simple jpg/png file that I need to add to a Bootstrap site and link another site. So my ...
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AdWords ad not approved for “misleading content”
I have created an HTML5 ad for Google AdWords using Google Web Designer. The ad contains 5 frames, in which every word of motto is showing up word by word, until the motto is complete. Like "This...is....
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AdWords display image ads - why are some different sizes to what is allowed?
I'm trying to get some ads onto a particular website. I can't/won't name the site but it uses two ads in the body of their articles and the one I'm trying to targets as a placement is 800 x 250 which ...
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How do ad networks trackers get loaded?
I just installed Ghostery on my browser, and when accessing any random page, I see a lot of advertising trackers that, however, don't appear in the page's source code.
For example, let's take http://...
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How to delete an ad unit displaying on categories page in WordPress?
I want to delete an ad unit attached to a post. That ad unit is not present in the post, but it is still appearing on the categories page. This is not a featured image.
How do I do that?
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Can buying ads improve the SEO of the my page?
I have a page which I would like to ranking Google for a specific keyword. This is a not the home page. This is a sub-page. Traffic is very high on this keyword and there is fierce competition for it....
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Why does Google prevent AdSense ads from opening in a new window?
According to this, Google doesn't allow ads served by AdSense to open in a new window:
Generally, it is our policy to not allow Google ads to open in a new window. However, in a few markets, ...
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What happens to an audience member after they purchase from a Product Set?
This question pertains to creating audiences for Facebook ads (Catalog Sales)...
I've created a product set...
I've created an audience for that product set ("viewed" or "didn't purchase")...
If ...
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How can any media-driven website be profitable with a CDN?
Long story short, I run a website where users upload their own content. Photos and videos. Everything is posted directly to an AWS S3 Bucket, then propagated out to a CDN. I have users all over the ...
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Is there any point in asking users to turn off adblockers?
I've got the impression that the number of sites asking users to turn off adblockers are rising. However, is there really any point in asking them?
Apparently, a large number of users turn off ...
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How can I prevent bad bots from clicking on my advertisers' ads?
I have a website where I create ads for clients. They are not AdWords or similar, they are custom ads I create. All ad links go through a count-clicker before being sent to the advertiser's URL (ex. ...
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What characters can the GCLID (Google Click ID) contain?
Can the GCLID (Google Click ID) contain any character outside of letters, digits, - (hyphen) and _ (underscore).
If yes, how many?
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Real value of Google Ads app conversion rates
We are facing a doubt when reading the technical details of the products and steps needed for publicizing our app and then measuring the app conversion rate as an effect of the paid campaigns.
We are ...
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What to do about certificates being distrusted by Google Chrome?
Recently Google Chrome started issuing a warning on the console which says:
The SSL certificate used to load resources from
https://www.example.com will be distrusted in M70. Once
distrusted, ...
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Is using Facebook advertising's “buyers” target a good way to lure likely shoppers?
I need to advertise a website to sell products related to Saint Seiya, so I decided to begin with Facebook (as Google Adwords seems to be a bit too advanced for me at the moment), and I started ...
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Does pausing an AdWords campaign and splitting it into two new campaigns cause problems?
I have been using AdWords for one year. It was going smoothly and we were receiving good result from AdWords.
Two months ago we rearranged the AdWords for better optimization by pausing the ...
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Can Facebook advertising be targetted only to users with an email address?
We are trying to promote our website with Facebook ads. We are finding a sizable percentage of users that come in through those FB ads are trying to sign up for our site but don't have an email ...
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How frequently should I expect Google AdsBot to visit my site?
I bought paid advertising for my website through an internet advertising company. I noticed that, among all the visits coming from that source, a large amount of them have AdsBot-Google (+http://www....
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To place in-app ads, can I go directly to app publisher or do I have to go through an advertising network?
I am looking to advertise a web application (basically a web portal). I have found several Android apps that target my desired demographic. Can I go directly to the app publisher to place ads to my ...
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facebook: what is the use of sharing custom data in facebook pixel
"Audience building can be enhanced by the passing of customData into the track and trackCustom calls. You can not track or optimize for conversions based on custom events at the current time." I read ...
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Create FB custom audience from user URL
I have a list of many Facebook users with URLs like:
facebook.com/firstname.surname
facebook.com/pseudo
facebook.com/profile.php?id=12345678910xxx1112
How can I create a Custom Audience with these ...
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Can I track which ads are in iFrames on my site and what users click in those iFrames without having to rely on ad network reporting?
As far as I am aware it is common for ad networks to displays advert in iframes.
To get statistics, how many views/clicks/conversions we rely in the ad network to be truthful/accurate.
Once I put an ...
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Targeting friends of a specific user with Facebook Marketing API
Our website provide a service that is mainly targeting friends of our users. We had this great idea of using the friends_of_connection setting to show custom ads to friends per user. In other words, ...
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Benefits of using DoubleClick when having adverts sold by an agency anyways
All my display ads are sold through an agency (direct sales and AdX). I'm getting a high CPM and everything is fine. However, I only get a report at the end of the month with all the figures. So I ...
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Is it legal to mention some affiliate companies as our sponsors in website?
I have registered a few affiliate marketing companies to make some addtional money.
There are 125*125 banners are displayed in right side of the website for them. Let assume that they Bluehost, ...
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Does Adwords use Geolocation in AdRank?
I'm running a national campaign for an online retailer. They are focusing on improving sales in Michigan. Their national ads are currently showing in Michigan.
Do I get any value from adding ...
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Do I Need to change Facebook Pixel after switching from HTTP to HTTPS?
Facebook has stopped showing our ads after a day from switching from http to https.
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Does AdWords support polite loading or backup images?
I"m new to creating HTML5 display ads and I don't know whether AdWords supports polite loading or backup images.
When we upload and test our ads, there is some lag where there is no ad for a moment. ...
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Is there a way to protect against some other site copying your Facebook pixel tracking id and messing up your targeting?
A Facebook pixel helps to build a narrow / targeted custom audience focused on people who visited my website (this is really important).
The things is: everyone can see my FB pixel ID on my webpage (...
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Target Facebook ads on people who like certain pages (for which I'm not the owner)
Let's say I sell fountain pens (just an example).
I might have many potential customers among people who like the Facebook page "WeLoveFountainPens" or "MontBlanc Facebook page" (famous pen ...
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Is legal to make a post promoting an affiliate link for a product or service I did not test?
Can I put affiliate links on my site without first testing the product or services?
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Is it usual that Google Adsense displays the same Adverts multiple times on one page?
I have a Domain with two same-sized Leaderboards (728 x 90, Banners) and one Medium Rectangle (300 x 250, Block) on every Website. This answer says that
if you place more than one ad unit on a ...
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How to position ads properly on a page that features a single image?
I believe my AdSense account has been affected in some way since my CTR has dropped from 2.2% to 0.8% overnight.
I didn’t get any notification from Google on my AdSense or webmaster tools accounts ...
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has google adsense bot suddenly changed their mobile viewport or am I being scammed?
I checked this email and even checked full headers and from them it seemed that I was supposed to be the intended receipient. Here's the email:
Google AdSense: Action required to comply with ...
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Fetch as Google, ad network has robots.txt with Disallow all, is it cloacking?
we run ads on our site and I've noticed that at the eyes of google the page isn't the same as at those of the users'.
In other words, ads are not being displayed because the Ad network we use has ...
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How to “nofollow” paid advertising with internal redirect
We have a site which includes paid banner and sidebar ads (not part of an advertising network). The ads are simple images/gifs which are linked to the advertiser's (external) site.
The links go ...
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20-25 percent difference in view in between Facebook ad clicks are visible in Google Analytics [duplicate]
We advertise blog posts of our blogging website on facebook but there is a huge difference between Fb ad clicks and clicks available on Google analytics.
Few user has reported about this issue that ...
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Adwords / Landing Page keyword combinations
I run a freelance web design business, and I am experimenting with running ads on key phrases like:
website design for accountants
accountant business website
website design for dentists
dentist ...
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AdSense for single page utility web application?
I have a web site that exists to provide a useful, but somewhat simple, facility. It is implemented as a single page that contains a Javascript application along with documentation on how to use it ...
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Increasing online exposure [closed]
Hello fellow Webmasters.
I'm looking for some advice from the more veteran or more aware users out there. So I been managing my step-fathers company for about 1 year now. We are a very small "...
