…if you want to prevent Site Targeted Google AdSense ads from showing up on your sites.
If you opt in to “Onsite Advertiser Sign-up” then you’ll see a link named “Advertise on this site” together with your Google AdSense ads.
All this does is send your visitors to a special landing page, and guide them to set up site targeting for your site specifically.
Now, I was under the impression that if I opted out of “Onsite Advertiser Sign-up”, then I wouldn’t get those Site Targeted Google AdSense CPM ads on my sites.
Well, I was wrong.
Initially I thought that I had accomplished my goal by opting out of “Onsite Advertiser Sign-up”, but Site Targeted ads still showed up when I dug into some advanced reporting on my AdSense account.
Well, I was wrong.
So I raised a ticket with Google AdSense Support, and got a very fast reply that really described the Site targeting scenario,
Opting out of “Onsite Advertiser Sign-up” essentially just removes the “Advertise on this site” link.
And the email from the support team also stated that all Google AdSense accounts are opted in to Site Targeting per default.
Ouch, so basically Site targeting can’t be disabled through your account settings.
I have one option though, but I have to wait for the support team to get back to me again before I know anything concrete.
The problem site targeting was originally brought to my attention by Adsense - Getting Paid Per Impression over at one of Lynn terry’s blog.
May 12th, 2006
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…you get a spam complaint from a double opt-in list 
…closely followed by an unsubscription…
I mean, if all you’re interested in is my free ebook, and you simply can’t stand that I send you two followup emails to hear if you had any problems downloading the book, then have the cuortesy to unsubscribe the proper way.
…and if you really want to add some substance to the matter, then leave a comment when you unsubscribe telling me why you’re unsubscribing.
Seriously, I think that AOL, Hotmail, Earthlink, Outblaze, Road Runner and Excite.com have serious credibility problems when they allow their customers to put the business lives of other people at stake by providing a simple button to report spam.
May 12th, 2006
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Lynn Terry of SelfStarters Weekly Tips, Turning Ideas Into Dollars and ClickNewz (plus a few more) has just launched a new blog that’s so far from Lynn’s usual way of writing that it’s almost scary.
Blog posts over at ClickNewz are usually quite long, becaue quite frankly, Lynn loves to talk and write 
In contrast, the posts over at her new site - Midnight Marketing Snack - are very short.
Small bits and pieces of internet marketing information, advice and links posted each night at…
…yep
 - Midnight -
For me - living in Denmark - it’s more like a morning snack…
…and I’m looking forward to it.
May 8th, 2006
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