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Adsense: Flooded by Weight-Loss Ads

Jobe Roberts — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:56:15 +0000

Update: *editorial corrections marked in brackets [as such].

It has been decided by the SensoryMetrics marketing advisory sub-committee (SMMASC) that Google Adsense will be turned off on this site. Um, that is, turned off and deactivated, (just as soon as we figure out how to close our account).

I know, so many of you will miss our colourful random meaningless [-ful] ads provided by Google Adsense.
Well to remember them by, here’s a post to say goodbye [thank you] to Adsense, it’s been nice! but, bye, bye.

I know, you must be wondering, “Why would we turn down free cash? It’s delivered in the mail for crying out loud!”

Well, there are a few [two minor and somewhat insignificant] reasons. For one, Google Adsense seems to exist in a weird unconnected business silo bubble or black hole. We have never [not yet] been able to resolve linking Google Analytics to our AdSense account. The Analytics support won’t talk to the Adsense support or is it the other way around? Who knows, we give up on it. It’s funny [been useful] to read the posts in the Google support forums, a bunch of people have this problem, but no one from Google Adsense support seems [has had the opportunity] to read this stuff. Um, is there an Adsense support group? Do they even exist or are they just virtual Google bots?

I guess the second reason, is that we’re sick of fat chick [weight-loss] ads. Go away, leave us alone with the fat chick “how to lose a ton of weight through a secret we will sell you” [lose weight] ads. Enough’s enough. [We'll happily endure more crazy ads since we like weight loss advertisements as much as the rest the ads]. It’s just not [so] worth the free money to put these annoying [fun] ads on the site! [Thanks, for the tips, yes, logging into our account and blocking the ads we don't want is just too obvious a fix, thx.]

If you are a member of the Adsense support team and just can’t live without our participation in your business. Here’s what it will take to win us back:

Please help us fix our broken account link between Adsense and Analytics. Then we’ll update this post with joyous praise or delete it as you wish.

Forever in your debt-itude. Your humble servants @SensoryMetrics.

Posted on behalf of the SensoryMetrics marketing advisory sub-committee (SMMASC)

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Gatineau: What’s in a name? That which we call a pageView..

Mitch Brisebois — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:11:54 +0000

To me, Gatineau is a run-down part of Canada’s national capital region. It’s best attribute is that you can buy beer in corner stores (depanneurs). To Microsoft, Gatineau is their version of Google Analytics that is soon going into alpha. SEO blogger David Naylor has posted some early screen shots. Check them out. IMHO, the interface looks like cheesy PowerPoint 3-D graphics – not too impressive considering Google’s classy revamp of analytics.

Also, based on the screenshot below, how does Microsoft KNOW the gender of your site traffic???

Tags: Gatineau, microsoft, google, analytics

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Google lied.

Mitch Brisebois — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:50:42 +0000

They said they’d shut down the old Analytics UI on July 18th. It’s still working…. shhhh don’t anybody tell

UPDATE: old analytics UI was finally yanked this weekend… RIP.

Tags: Google, analytics

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Google Analytics: Your UX is about to be sentenced to death

Mitch Brisebois — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:25:56 +0000

A few months back Google radically changed it’s Analytics UI. The original was super sharp – the overview showing 4 panes of charts showing visitors, page views, source, geography… The new interface is much more powerful – but misses that sleek at-a-glance traffic view. I’ve been using both. The problem is with Google’s announcement that they’ll be discontinuing the old UI on July 18.

The biggest beef I have is with Google’s hourly updates of the data. The old UI updates fine – but the new one is usually 3 hours later… Maybe knockin’ off old analytics will help the performance. Maybe I’m just being anal…

Tags: Google, analytics, retired-UI

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