Carolyn,

Great to see the content ad program open up live.

As you're well aware traffic volume has always been a bit shallow with Adcenter. However, most were okay with this knowing that what traffic was coming through was quality. As your team moves forward I hope that the desire for higher volume will always be balanced with tools to control quality.

Limit of 500 domains.

I don't yet know the full extent of your content network. We have over 4,000 sites blocked at Google.

They capped us 3 months ago and we have watched our returns from content plummet.

We have pretty much turned off Yahoo due to their lack of referral reporting and domain name exclusion limits.

It is very easy to hit a 500 domain name limit.

Remember large news sites have hundreds of sub domains or lower level directories that advertisers may want to exclude, yet retain others. A good example is msn.com here you have thousands of great content categories, but certainly not all of them will be relevant to my ads. To target them effectively I need to block a great deal of the subjects/directories that do not match your needs. money.msn.com, credit.msn.com, horoscope.msn.com.

Additionally it is highly beneficial to give advertisers the ability to target or block at least 3 directory levels down.

Many sites structure their content after the 3rd directory level. IE: xyz.com/reports/articles/money/. If you can only  block and or target at the 1st level directory then in the above example I am targeting every /report possible generated by xyz.com... not exactly the precision I need.

So as Adcenter moves forward, please don't make the same mistakes made by the other two, allow for robust reporting and exclusion of irrelevant ads.

As always Jerry thanks for the feedback! Rest assured we will be expanding the network and adding more control features. Thanks for your continued support. Cheers Mel

Site Exclusion is a nice feature.  But how about giving us access to a report of clicks, CPC, Impressions, etc down to the keyword level for each content network site.  Google gives us a "Placement Performance Report" that shows all this data.

How about a complete list of all the Content Network partners.  "And More" is kind of vague as lists go describing the partners.

Please open this up to global advertisers who are targeting the US for their ads too as it doesn't make sense to just limit the content network to advertisers with a physical US address. Its a globalized world and with the internet, we can sell products globally, not matter where our country of operations is.

Hi, we have an UK Adcenter account and I am able to pull up a report for content performance. But I am not able to find a tab to turn on and off content targeting.

Please advice

Do you have a way to insert the referrer on the destination URL?  It seems like many of the specific HTTP referrers info gets masked or converted into an msn.com referrer.  For example, referrals from WSJ.com...  show up as msn.com rather than wsj.com.

Thanks.

How can a new advertiser find out what sites are on the Microsoft content network?  I'm anxious to set up placement advertising, but have no history to work with.  What sites are available?

Sounds like a great work.I like to know how to insert adds on others sites?