Re: Google Adsense versus Adwords

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

+1 from me too.  I did this once before.  Not rocket science :).

behdad

On 05/24/2009 09:10 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
> When I asked Google about an adsense account (which enables you to put
> Google ads on your website and get compensated for them) they mentioned
> the AdWords grant program to me. AdWords lets you advertise your site
> via google ads on other people's sites, including Google Search.
>
> The AdWords grant program offers free AdWords accounts to nonprofits:
> (You get a daily budget of $329.)
> http://www.google.com/grants/
>
> However, you can't have an AdSense account too.
>
> Since we are conflicted about ads, and much more likely to reach
> agreement on specific company ads than general google ads, I recommend
> we apply for a Google AdWords grant.
>
> If we get it, is there anyone with experience in AdWords, SEO or
> advertising that would like to help run it? (The application itself
> requires just a few things like target audience and sample campaign
> slogans that we'd need to think about.)
>
> Thoughts? All for applying for a free AdWords account?
>
> Stormy
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org
> <mailto:dneary gnome org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Stormy Peters wrote:
>      > I agree that if it's even a percentage of that, it might be worth it.
>      >
>      > What would people think of trying it out for a couple of months? We
>      > could start with Google ads to see how well ads work and once we
>     have an
>      > idea of how much to expect, we could solicit ads directly from
>     companies.
>
>     One important thing to bear in mind (and I'm digging into second-hand
>     memory banks here) is whether this would affect our relationship with
>     the various companies who donate bandwidth & hosting services. I don't
>     think OSU OSL has any issue with this, but IIRC, hosting in Red Hat's
>     colo had a "no ads" condition attached.
>
>     Worth investigating, at least - if we end up with $150K advertising
>     revenues a year and an extra $300K hosting costs to pay, it would be a
>     bad deal.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Dave.
>
>     --
>     Dave Neary
>     GNOME Foundation member
>     dneary gnome org <mailto:dneary gnome org>
>
>
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