A click a day keeps the bills at bay! (how you can help WP)

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Alex was asked in a different thread how can one support Wrong Plant. This was his response:

"Actually, If you click on an advertisement once a day, it'll probably donate an extra 20 cents. If lots of people are clicking on an ad once a day, it'll add up to a lot. I don't think people like clicking on google ads though and only one click per person is recorded each day so clicking different ads a bunch of times one day won't help anymore than clicking the ad once. just keep in mind that if you see an ad that sounds kind of interesting, if you click it, it will support wrongplanet.net. Even if you just want to click on a link daily it'll greatly help the site."

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..

Which ad did you click on today?

BeeBee

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Duh! I could have done a better job of explaining that, no?

Sorry!

I clicked on a ed for a book store. : )

BeeBee

Hahaha! I didn't see any ads while reading this. And I don't see any right now! I'll click an ad when I see one.

I didnt know clicking on ads donated money to WP

I don't have any ads on screen, there's only the wrong planet store (beneath the 'who's online' box), and underneath that, an empty box called 'google adsense'.

..later

ohhhh right, I geddit. You go to the 'books' category and click on a book and it takes you to the amazon site.

Okay, now I'm confused.

When I am at the forums, either the index or actually reading posts, there is a strip on the left hand side of the features of this site (home, forums, chatroom, on down to Merchandise). Then there is "User Stats." Immediately below that is "Ads by Google" and furture down is "Google Adsense." I *******assumed******* we were talking about the Google adsense ads.

Does anyone know for sure?

BeeBee

We are talking about google adsense ads. Amazon doesn't pay for clicks, they pay a percentage of anything anyone who uses the links buys. The clicking has been working though! We are up to 25 dollars. keep it up! Thanks for making others aware of the Google ads.

isn't there some other way to help out with $? i'd gladly send a check before getting "cookied" into some advertiser's database.

Lots of newer people so I though this thread should get bumped up.

Have you made your click today?

BeeBee, what you are doing is extremely unfair to the advertisers who pay to be on AdSense. The idea is that customers will see those ads and click them because they're genuinely interested--not because they are told to do so by the site's owner.

I run an online business; it's what keeps food on my table. I pay to have ads show in those AdSense blocks. If I came across a site that ran my ads and the owner was asking for clicks like this, I'd make damn sure their account was shut down. Soliciting clicks and discussing earnings are blatantly against Google's terms of service, by the way.

Why not just run the ads in a place where they can actually be easily seen, and have people click them as they please?

I see your point yet think about this...

...by advertising you are hoping to get me to look at your goods. And I do that. I've even ordered things after clicking from here. And I've refered friends to sites I have found by clicking here. I doubt those businesses care why I orginally looked at their site.

I had no idea it was illegeal and I was speaking as a private citizen. I will let this thread drop. Alex or others may delete it if they would like. Since it is illegal to click as I might like and to encourage others to do so, I will go back to my normal habit of ignoring the google ads.

I learn something new everyday.

BeeBee

It's not at all illegal, but it is against Google's terms of service, meaning they could potentially deduct clicks or drop you from the program.

The reason for this is that if you ask visitors to click an ad to "donate to the site", they're just going to click any random ad and immediately come right back. They are very unlikely to actually buy anything as a result, so the advertiser is just throwing money away. On the other hand if they click an ad because they see it on their own and it happens to interest them, the click is much more likely to lead to a sale. Advertisers are paying you for space on your site and targeted traffic from it because they want to make sales--they're not charities who want to pay you for the heck of it.

I've run AdSense for 2+ years now and have made a LOT of money from it. From my experience the most effective way to get the most out of it would be to put your ads in a more prominent position, possibly with brighter coloring. Putting a horizontal box across the top of every page would make a DRAMATIC improcement. That way a lot more people will see them and you'll send many more (legitimate, unsolicited) clicks to the advertisers.

That makes sense.

I really do ignore other google ads. I also NEVER click on a sponsered ad in Goggle search. If places want my business they have to be willing to meet me more than half way....there are just so many options for a consumer.

Very few places have unique enough products that I can't safely ignore them.

BeeBee