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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. So.... by Orthuberra · · Score: 0, Troll

    When is Google gonna have a "We're officially evil!" press release? Sorry for the troll, can't help it.

  2. FIX YOUR RSS FEED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT
    fix it. Fix it. fix it. Fix it.
    fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it.

    It's been about 10 stories behind and it's annoying the SHIT out of us RSS regulars.

  3. Re:Not ready for prime time? by bky1701 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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    Great Intellect...
  4. Re:They screw the smaller ones anyway by tedivm · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can vouch for this- a few years ago I decided to try ads on my site. I specifically told people not to just click ads, but to just view the ones they actually wanted to see. I didn't get that many clicks, and so it took a few months before I could get a payout. Then, right before I was going to get a payout, which was the money I was hoping to use to buy school books, I get this email about click fraud and that they were closing the account and zeroing out the balance. The problem is that Google caters to the people who pay them, not the people they pay- and now they're being even more blatant with it. This is pretty shortsighted since its going to drive smaller websites away from the program, and those smaller websites make up a good portion of the web.