The Nonsense About AdSense
The sort of bogus headline you expect from TW, but not from The Times , where Benjamin Cohen, the self styled former teenaged dot.com millionaire, is rabbiting on about a few hundred quid that Google have docked him for invalid clicks on his latest money earning venture on [url= http://www.PinkNews.co.uk ] www.PinkNews.co.uk [/url]
Young Mr Cohen seems to know two thirds of nothing about Adsense, he expresses disbelief that any small publisher can make money with the use of “claiming”
with some small one man band publishing outfits claiming to make in excess of $100,000 through showing the adverts.
And he is not too keen on Google’s methods
In particular, I am concerned at the fact that both advertisers and syndication partners are denied the right to audit the figures produced by Google. All you are provided is an average cost per click figure, together with the total revenue for the day.This is unacceptable for many online publishers as it means that you are unable to correctly identify the amount of money owed to you, nor are you able to identify areas of growth (particularly in regards to the type of advertisers your users are clicking on).
[url= http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/13/my_life_as_a_teenage/ ]A contemporaneous report in The Register in 2002 [/url] casts doubt that Mr Cohen was a millionaire in the first place
His share in Totally was not worth anything like the £5m that was quoted two years earlier, it was valued at £310,000 but had reduced to £40,000 when he came to sell his stake.
Whatever the rights or wrongs of his struggle with Google, I personally don’t think I will be trying my luck at gay publishing – doesn’t look to be much money in it, and they seem to enjoy “helping” their own publications.
itunes
This is the same guy who sued to retain ownership of the itunes.co.uk domain name after the regulators rather understandably decided that Apple should own it.
irrelevant
The post above is irrelevant to the point of the story. The guy makes a valid claim. Google is virtually impossible to communicate with and almost all emails to the company result in very strict and form-esque email tone.
but, Big Brand wins. In the words of Tony Soprano, "whaddya gonna do...?" {with a thick new york accent}