Any idea when this pubcenter will be rolled out to non-us publishers? I am from India and looking forward to see this open to Indian publishers :)

Hello to all

I am just passing the one year mark in terms of an online presence and about six months full time. I am now considering options of utilizing a premium ad network in the not so distant future. I do not have a "million visitors a month site" but I do have a high paying niche. At what level am I qualified or worthy of a premium pub acct with Microsoft? I would as an Advertiser say that the traffic or audience is worth approx 45 - 90 dollars or so a day now. I would wait until that level is doubled as of now. but I have no idea what the minimum size or expectations are. I also am kinda paranoid about what the implications of being denied are. Everyone is so secretive about this type of stuff and unwilling to say a word with out explanation. Any perspective would be great. Im hungry.

Hi,

I have a high quality niche website with about 500.000 unique visitors a year. I live in Norway, my domain is .as, is there any chance for me to have pubcenter on my website? If not when are you planning on releaseing this for a wider audience? like non-us?

Thanks and regards

Alex

Here is how Microsoft can take over the Google Adsense business: simply publish a clear percentage of revenue that publishers will receive.  Google gives AdSense users an unpublished but very small percentage of the revenue from ad click-throughs on their websites, and the lack of clear information on how much drives the web publishing world crazy.  There is a constant search for AdSense alternatives, not just to raise revenue, but in an attempt to simply get a clear contract.  There is a strong suspicion that Google is constantly reducing the share of AdSense revenue that website owners receive to boost Google revenue year over year.  Since the Adsense contract is basically "we'll give you whatever share we want and never tell you the percentage", their is huge world-wide demand and opportunity for Microsoft to step forward and address this problem with a clear statement that "we give you X% of the revenue obtained from clickthroughs on the ads on your website."   I wait in breathless anticipation for your news release on this!  It would upend the website text-ad world in less than a week.

hi

is it necessary to type "@hotmail.com" in the id section at microsoft sites.I think it is better to keep default by yourself.The id which the user typed  is not present in the database then show an error message.In my opinion typing "@hotmail.com" gives some inconvinience to users.

Can i know why we want to type "@hotmail.com" in Microsoft sites at id section?

Thanks for the information,

I will try it.

Hi Chris,

Yeah, I would love to see pubCenter in Canada. There's enough talent up here to raise your bottom line significantly.

And I have to echo Bill's comment - a lot of people would like to see MSFT pull the trigger and bring some serious competition into the space against Goog.

It seems google has become greedy and have started eating into publishers share of ad clicks and the need of a strong alternative is felt strongly. Come on microsoft, we expect a lot from you.

 Previously, I was a publisher of google adsense, but some one targeted me (dont know cause of competition or jealously) and violently clicked on ads for continuously 1 week, and atlast after my every effort, my account was disabled by google. Offcourse they have predicted suspicious activity in my account, but this is also true that I was not responsible for that. Hence I have a suggestion to protect both advertizers and publishers from such attacks which currently google dont provide.

My suggestion is,

  If we allow the publisher himself to decide whether the click is valid or not. This can be done by providing the publisher a option in control panel, where he/she can monitor all the clicks, and if he finds the clicks to be invalid , in the control panel itself, he can deny those clicks. There wont be violation to  privacy policy, as you won't need to show the ip addresses of clickers, instead whole thing can be tabulated in form ::

Address 1 :  10:15am

Address 1 : 5:10 pm

Address 2 : 10:20 am

Address 3 : 4:55 pm

(here the ip who clicked on 10:15 am, has again clicked on 5:10pm ,so that publisher can deny the accepting second click)

so on..

(here no ip add. will be shown to publisher, only a symbol for one ip address.

Hence by doing so, all the repeated clicks from a single ip can be monitored by the publisher himself, and he can deny all such clicks. Hence the publisher will be surely remain safe from invalid clicks and your team will not need to monitor all the accounts,instead only those account who still find invalid clicks in their earning zone.

Please sir let me know what you think about such scheme.

It seems to me that Google makes a major part of their money off of their adsense program. What is taking Microsoft so long to get this going with pubcenter? Once you guys get on the ball, you can simply pay a little better than Google and all the webmasters would flock to you. Then, Google search results would lead to these websites and Microsoft will profit off of Google's own search results. Guaranteed you guys could cut Google's profits in half.

I myself applied for pubcenter beta and never heard a word. Come on guys! Let's get going!

Hi Chris,

I'm sorry that you haven't gotten a date for the rest of the world. Now that being said, although my website is placed in Norway, it has about 70% US traffic, is that considered as as US-only thing? I so want to hook into the PubCenter from you guys, rather than Google

Good point above about Google not publishing prices they pay for adsense. What a business model. Can't wait until Microsoft crushes them.