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Is anyone using or having any luck with these? It looks like a pretty good setup.

I use these.

Yes, you can make a few dollars.... sometimes just pennies a click.

I was using them as an effort to make sure the pages were spidered. The pages have to be in the google index so that it can display ads based on the keywords located on your page.

Haven't gotten rich... I'm using them more hoping to draw the google spiders.

But I like them, they are pretty unobtrusive.

I went ahead and put one up, I don't care about making money so much but I sure like the idea of being spidered. They even had a color scheme that fits my site perfectly, I just added into the footer way down below everything

I will have to wait and see but I am not so sure that it will display what it indexes on google itself. According to the readme it does spider your site for keywords, then it uses those keywords to determin what ads to display on your site.

Don't know, but I pay .05 cents per click for google adwords, and have gotten 401 users the last month, 127 the last week, and about 26 a day now.

For my purposes, it is worth paying .05 per click when it translates to new users. I'd pay a dollar a user if I could get them that way.

Sorry this was off the subject, just thought I'd mention.

I just put it up at my site (which is about marching percussion) and it served these 4 links:

Asian Developing Nations
Endangered Species
Are You a New Dad?
Literacy Cambodia

Hmmmm....All I have to say is, LOL!

Ah, wait...nevermind. It's updated.

Timpani Mallets for Less
Drums on Sale
Pro-Quality Djembe Drums

That happened on mine too for the first couple of hours but after that it was indexed although it does not display what it spiders in Google, at least from what I have seen so far

Hmmm.... how would I add this to a custompalbox thingy? Has the code for these changed, or am I suffering from a brain fart?

The non-profit ads are what it puts up when it has not spidered the page and doesn't know what keywords the page contains. With time, when the page is indexed, it will present real ads.

You don't get credit for clicks to the non-profit things.

Do NOT click your own ads or encourage people to click them. Google WILL know. Trust me.

Someone clicked mine 4 times but I'm not mentioning any names []http://www.vhfans.com/boards/images/graemlins/whistling2.gif[/]

My brother was clicking his own ads and his account got terminated.

I made 17 cents yesterday for one click! I only have it up on my beta site, so one of my mods must have clicked something.

I just did some digging around through google help and found this nifty page that lays out all the search parameters that you can use. http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Well cool, google solves basic math problems? I like it!

Gonna book mark that page and dig through it more later. I always loved Google, now I love it even more!

The October 28th issue of PCMag has "20 Great Google Secrets".

Here are some highlights to check out...

Advanced operators that can help narrow down your search results. - http://www.google.com/help/operators.html

Index of literally millions of messages from decades of discussion on Usenet. - http://groups.google.com

Index of products from online stores. - http://froogle.google.com

Features products from ~6,000 paper catalogs in a searchable index. - http://catalogs.google.com

There's a complete list of Google's tools and services at http://www.google.com/options

There's a 3rd-party site http://www.googlealert.com that monitors your search terms and emails you information about new additions to Google's web index.

This beta version of Google News Alerts can monitor up to 50 news queries per email address and can send you information about news stories that match your query. - http://www.google.com/newsalerts

This place holds some of Google's toys that are in the tinker phase. - http://labs.google.com

Somebody on my site started a thread about "blues backing tracks" this morning and the Google ad already has two links in it about blues guitar Talk about efficient!

I just signed up myself. According to the policy, you can't have it served on a search page. At first I thought about putting it in my footer template, but I'm afraid that would violate the policy because it would then be served on the search page as well. Any recomendation on where (which template) to place the code so that it serves on all pages except the search page? Thanks.

You could let it check the uri and only display it when it´s not on the search page.

Something like this:

$pathinfo = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if (!eregi("search.php",$pathinfo) {
include("googleadd.php");
}

Thanks. If and when they approve my app, I'll give this a shot.

I didn't catch that part I just added it to my footer and left it that way, nobody's said anything and I got my check for $3.45 for last year

WOW, you gonna buy everyone lunch? I'm not looking to make a ton off of it (not that I'll send it back if I do ) , but mainly just to possibliy help in search engines ranking, and then add another resource which is targeted for my content which might help in bringing traffic back. But, "Life is like a box of chocolates. Ya never know what you're gonna get."