Questions tagged [advertising]
Advertising is the practice of producing text, images, or other media intended to influence others' purchasing decisions.
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What ad networks can I use to comply with GDPR? [closed]
The Google AdSense sets cookies even for non-personalised ads so I believe it will not be GDPR compliant unless the website gets the user consent and stores the consent as proof for later.
Are there ...
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What's the correct use of dynamic Facebook UTMs for Google Analytics?
This question has two parts: best practice, and issues with reporting.
Best practice:
Right now, the UTMs that we've set up for our Facebook & Instagram advertising campaigns are dynamically ...
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Can Google Analytics group impressions/clicks by visitors' countries?
I was planning to use PHP to create a tracking system for recording the impressions and clicks of my ads (not served by Google Ads). But during my research on how to design the database, I saw someone ...
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Can I export my users' third party cookies such as those from Yandex to Google Ads?
I have been collecting cookies by different services like Yandex, Mautic, Facebook pixel etc. Now I need to share/import these Cookies to Google for make remarketing from my WEB by Google Ads.
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What is the difference between two URL input boxes in Facebook Ad Manager?
I'm unable to understand these two boxes for tracking links:
I understand that the first one is the link used in the ad. If so, then what is the second one is for?
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How to label and track 2 different page types (with vs without ads) in analytics?
Using Google Analytics, how could I label pages in my site so I can then see individual stats in Google Analytics.
For example, I have over 500 000 pages in the site, and I want to compare the site ...
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Can I hide ads for Googlebot so it loads my site faster?
I have ads which load sometimes slower, I want to hide those ads for Googlebot. I plan to hide that ad code for googlebot only and show them only to users.
Do I risk a Google penalty if I hide ads, ...
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AdSense units don't respect CSS margin rules
I just noticed that on sites with "auto ads" enabled, auto-placed AdSense units don't follow CSS rules regarding margin or padding in mobile view. They display across the entire viewport instead of ...
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Using Google Adsense on Hidden Sections of Domain
I got a verified google Adsense account a few years ago when I was running my own little blog, which related to my web design business. I was able to use the same registered account to set up ads on a ...
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All of my Google AdWords accounts are suspended because I used the same credit card?
I do not understand why my account was suspended for "suspicious payment info".
The issue started when I set up my new campaign and added my billing information. The campaign continued to have in ...
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How can I prevent site search powered by a custom Google search engine from showing ads?
I just set up this cse.google.com thing and it works great.
How can I prevent it from showing ads? I looked almost everywhere in the admin panel of cse.google.com but can't find anything related.
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Load google ads dynamically?
I always thought loading google ads dynamically wasn't allowed and then I saw freerice.com which seem to do just that.
Is it against TOS to load google ads as a user scrolls down the page. I have a ...
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Do ads that pop up in a new tab hurt SEO?
Today a lot ad companies offer propeller ads instead of popup ads. I read how popup ads can hurt Google rankings. Those articles say that Google hates ads that pop up in new window.
However, ...
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Do putting more ads on the first screen turn away users in long-term?
I tried to put more ads (bigger sizes, from 1 banner to 2 banners) and generated a better revenue (about 40% higher).
I am very happy with the revenue boosting but also worried about any possible bad ...
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Will using x-Robots-Tag on a 302 redirect URL from advertising prevent Google penalties when the publisher doesn't support nofollow links?
Usually we buy ads banner on some website (not with SEO purpose) and we use this approach:
publisher-website.example
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banner
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short-link.example/1234/
On this domain we have configured a ...
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Adwords performance (speed) of responsive display vs image banner ads
Google has given option to create responsive display ads by uploading multiple images, logos and creating around 5 headlines and descriptions. Google says that the ads adapt to different screen sizes ...
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Where can I find the historic data of Google/Facebook 's average overall CPM?
The reason I asked this question is quite simple:
I found the CPM of my website dropped to 25%~30% of what it is in 2014. That's a super tough drop and my revenue is now nearing reaching my server ...
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Optimum Dollars, Duration, and Audience Size for Facebook Ad
How does Facebook guestimate reach for an ad? There has to be an optimum data point between budget, duration, and audience size.
What I mean is the ad manager allows you to select an audience size by ...
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Will allowing users to customize the number of ads they see entice them to disable ad blockers?
I totally understand with users getting pis*ed of by ads, especially if there are to many, or irrelevant. I also totally understand that many sites depend on displaying them. Mine is one of them. I ...
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Google XML Feed, Schema and product availability
Regarding product availability, there's that little something I don't quite understand.
We have an online store with a few thousand products. Some of those products we don't have "in stock" for ...
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What's the difference between boosting engagment vs links when using Facebook advertising?
My wife's recently published a historical romance. It's getting very good reviews and I'm trying to do some promotion beyond what her publisher is doing.
I've been experimenting with boosting ...
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How long should I expect it to take to get ads on a web site?
I recently had an idea for a web site that I wanted to monetize. A big part of this site revolved around an infrequent conference which only happens every few years, and it just so happens I had ...
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How can I check if AdSense is showing ads in other countries?
I have build website and it is showing AdSense ads in India.
How can I check whether ads are showing in the USA or Canada?
Is there any minimum traffic requirement for showing ads in each country?
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Rejected by Google Adsense for weapon related content but my site should be allowed because it is about video game guns, not real ones
I created a Fortnite website a couple months back called http://fortnitegunstatistics.com. The website contains the statistics for all of the virtual weapons in the video game. My site got rejected ...
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Is this the maximum revenue i can make from a website?
I am using an ad platform to serve ads on one of my website which is having around 5000 page views a day through organic search alone I am getting around one to two $ in a day Am I lacking something ...
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Facebook advertising: the CooldownStartTime field can not be changed to be in the past
Trying to setup a conversion campaign with split testing here. Next day I return to my laptop, to see this error:
Fix 1 error in 1 ad
Time fields can only be changed to a date that is in the ...
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Adsense ads with my own ads
I have a website. It consists of Excel VBA lessons. I have put Google Adsense ads in it.
Now I want to put my own advertisements in it. (To get some freelancing programming jobs.)
For an example, ...
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Can I fetch the code for DFP ad slots for all my clients through an API?
Is there a way I can retrieve over API all the codes I get from my clients through txt files?
Now I get a bunch of files like this:
googletag.defineSlot('*', ][320,60],[320,100],[612,90]], 'div-gpt-...
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Google analytics lost conversions after implementing social login [duplicate]
we have recently implemented social login to our website. We are running ads to that website and after implementing the social login we lost all conversion data - everything is accounted to facebook.
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Decent ad platforms that don't track [closed]
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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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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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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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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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 ...
