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Google Quietly Closes AdSense API to Small Sites

Posted by Zonk on from the raising-the-bar dept.

NewsCloud writes "Google has raised the required minimum traffic limit for publishers who wish to use its AdSense API to 100,000 page views per day. The AdSense API was introduced in March as a way for sites with user generated content to share advertising revenue with their members. Says Google, "This policy change will probably result in fewer developers going live and give us a chance to enhance our support resources and processes to more easily support a greater number of developers in the future...we hope to be able to lower it in the future as we become more efficient at supporting our developers!" Meanwhile, some publishers report waiting a month for their API usage to be approved. I take Google at its word for now but worry that small developers could be increasingly squeezed out of the mashup space if this were to become a trend."

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  1. Slashdot quietly supports blogspam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Stories submitted by user NewsCloud:
      Spotlight on Facebook Groups Affects Microsoft http://jeff.newscloud.com/2007/09/06/microsoft-digital-advertising-placing-ads-on-facebook-hate-groups/
      Facebook Exposes Advertisers To Hate Speech
    http://jeff.newscloud.com/2007/09/03/facebook-brand-left-to-mercy-of-hate-groups/
      Facebook Apps Facing Delays and Uncertainties
    http://www.idealog.us/2007/06/thanks_for_deve.html

    idealog = personal spamblog, newscloud = spam blog, whom Google undoubtedly denied AdSense API access

    1. Re:Slashdot quietly supports blogspam by klenwell · · Score: 3, Informative

      Whoops. Just noticed that this story was about AdSense, not AdWords, so strike the last comment about how this affects small advertisers.

      That it's adsense make me wonder if this isn't really a measure designed to control or attack people abusing the API to propagate things like blogspam and link farms. It doesn't make sense to me that Google wouldn't really be able to accommodate smaller publishers since I'd guess that the majority of API resource usage is concentrated among the largest qualifying publishers.

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      Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime... -- Machiavelli
  2. Re:Not ready for prime time? by cheater512 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its not Adsense. Its a special form of adsense which would probably only be useful for larger sites anyway.

    Basically its revenue sharing where you can share a % of your profit with your users.
    Thats all they have limited.

  3. Re:Not ready for prime time? by king-manic · · Score: 3, Informative

    But they can turn right around and blow a few million on a landing strip for their personal jets. Yeah Google is really short on cash.

    You are aware that wasn't "Google" funded. It was the personal funds of the founders. The jets as well. Or should all CEO's limit themselves from spending their personal bank roll?

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    "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
  4. Anonymous Coward = Mark Zuckerberg? by newscloud · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why just complain about my Facebook posts? You don't seem to have a problem with: Looking Into Mozilla's Financial Success, Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio and Moglen on Social Justice and OSS. It's not like the NewsCloud logo is all stealth on my blog :)

  5. Google AdSense has always paid regularly... by newscloud · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've never had any problem with ad revenue and payments. Just my experience...