You see I've got this web site: www.genitron.com. Not a bad little site. Got some handgun reference information on it.
It started getting a few hits, and I thought I'd try to get some advertising revenue from it. So I signed up with "Ads by Google" where you put their ad banner on your web pages and they insert ads that relate to the content on your site. Visitors click the ads, you get some money.
It was working too... got ads on my site for gun safes, firearms training, knives and gun grips, CCW training. Then all the sudden it stopped. All I was getting was PSA's instead of ads. You know "Save Wildlife", "Fight Aids", yada yada.
I emailed Google and asked them "What happened to the ads? I was just starting to make some money!"
Well it turns out that they have a new policy... that websites which provide information about handguns are objectionable to their ad program. Instead they began pushing their public service agenda's to my site... and killed my revenue.
What can you do? Well I guess I can gripe about it here. Not that I'd stop using google as a search engine.
Just remember everyone, there are politcal agenda's around every corner.
"Google has certain policies in place that we believe will help ensure the
effectiveness of Google ads for our publishers as well as our advertisers.
We believe strongly in freedom of expression and therefore offer broad
access to content across the web without censoring results. At the same
time, we reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion when it comes
to the ads we display in our AdWords program and the sites on which we
choose to display them in our AdSense program, as noted in our respective
Terms and Conditions."
Yeah, right.
It started getting a few hits, and I thought I'd try to get some advertising revenue from it. So I signed up with "Ads by Google" where you put their ad banner on your web pages and they insert ads that relate to the content on your site. Visitors click the ads, you get some money.
It was working too... got ads on my site for gun safes, firearms training, knives and gun grips, CCW training. Then all the sudden it stopped. All I was getting was PSA's instead of ads. You know "Save Wildlife", "Fight Aids", yada yada.
I emailed Google and asked them "What happened to the ads? I was just starting to make some money!"
Well it turns out that they have a new policy... that websites which provide information about handguns are objectionable to their ad program. Instead they began pushing their public service agenda's to my site... and killed my revenue.
What can you do? Well I guess I can gripe about it here. Not that I'd stop using google as a search engine.
Just remember everyone, there are politcal agenda's around every corner.
"Google has certain policies in place that we believe will help ensure the
effectiveness of Google ads for our publishers as well as our advertisers.
We believe strongly in freedom of expression and therefore offer broad
access to content across the web without censoring results. At the same
time, we reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion when it comes
to the ads we display in our AdWords program and the sites on which we
choose to display them in our AdSense program, as noted in our respective
Terms and Conditions."
Yeah, right.
