Your topic Widgetbucks : The latest sensation in PPC Advertisement | Webmaster … was interesting when I found it on Monday searching for affiliate marketing referral…

The thing that’s great about Adsense is that you can use it to promote content and online experiences, not just products. You can’t easily do that with an affiliate programme (unless you’re selling the content).

Adsense also places a value on the site visit, which affiliate programs assume is worthless unless it generates a sale soon. If you refer a visitor to Amazon and they spend half an hour browsing but don’t buy yet, you don’t get anything but Amazon gets a whole load of customer interaction for free. Many affiliate programs offer cookies to give credit beyond the immediate click, but I think there should be some credit just for getting people to visit. While advertising hosts have to take some responsibility for the quality of visitors they refer (their willingness to buy), advertisers must assume responsibility for their ability to close the deal too.

As a publisher,, I am sure that advertisers will agree to a let’s say 20% commission of all sales made through Google. That means, Google understands that the value of a product is a constant. (If that is not the case then they are all ready to go to prison) Hm, interesting….

The question is, why does Google think they can determine the value of my commission? Here is why I am asking that!

My advertising space should be rented out. Not evaluated by Google. The advertiser doesn’t give a flying f(d)uck about where the sale came from. Especially if they are not paying for advertising and they are paying commission for sales.

Now let me elaborate in 2 sentences. SO WHAT if I am selling chicken on the gaming site? Maybe I have a great, mouth watering chicken game and people can’t resist going to buy chicken after a good chicken bashing.

My point is. Yes, SURE, I am all GO for free advertising. That will mean more traffic and more money for EVERYONE, but having Google decide if Mary’s knitting needle sale is worth more for John and less for Steve is disrespectful, at the least. Especially because Mary doesn’t give a duck that I spoke of before. She is happily cunting the new dime she got.

If the model is like this:

Advertiser pays Google a fixed 10% (for using their network) and me a fixed 20% or 30% for bringing a sale or a few (constant) percent per lead, even if it is from a dirty yard, then we are talking about an awesome network, where I will maybe serve the purpose of a traffic director only, but the advertisers won’t throw money away on worthless clicks and I won’t be happy to see 0.23 but rather a 23 in my account today.

Now I am seeing the lead generating problem. People are not leaving real info on forms anyway. How much money do you think you can make by ,, let’s see,, an auto submission software that pretends to come from your site and fills in the form on a landing site.

And then there are more issues here.
HOW will I as the advertiser now, implement Google technology into my site, for Google tracking purposes? What will securely separate my Google traffic from my other traffic?

As the publisher again! If Google is not implementing a payment gateway, what will guarantee that the advertiser is not cheating on me? Or is this “the revenge of angry advertisers” model?

Sorry for the long post. But I get ticked off when I see them burying them selves deeper into disrespectfulness of publishers.