pubCenter Blog - All Comments

re: Monetization Excellence Director Leading Course in Yield Management Best Practices

Chris Norred - MSFT — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:35:10 GMT

Hi Robert,

You should post this question to the Bing Webmaster forum here for the latest advice. www.bing.com/.../default.aspx

Please let us know if that doesn't solve the issue.

-chris

re: Monetization Excellence Director Leading Course in Yield Management Best Practices

Robert — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:14:05 GMT

Mr. Norred,

I am desperately trying to do what I thought would be a relatively simple thing....register by business on Bing local business listing. I noticed that you helped someone else online with this issue so I was helping that you can help me out as well.

I followed all the steps on Bing, filled out all the info at least 3 times and I have never received that letter with a pin number so that you can activate your listing. What seems to be the problem? On Yahoo and Google it is done in a matter of minutes. Thoughts?

I wanted to call customer service but apparently there is no such thing.

I thank you in advance!

Robert

re: pubCenter Beta Users: Microsoft and Yahoo! Search Agreement Cleared

Chris Norred - MSFT — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:41:21 GMT

Hi surfer,

the beta is currently available only to US-based publishers. Subscribe to our blog for future news. If you'd like to hear about events, you can subscribe to our events listings and it will include any London events. community.microsoftadvertising.com/.../Searchrss.aspx

re: pubCenter Beta Users: Microsoft and Yahoo! Search Agreement Cleared

surfer99 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:02:28 GMT

Hey I'm a Publisher and really respect and love Microsoft products and all that they've achieved and the way they operate at the forefront of technology. I've a website which I'm looking to place PPC ads on to it but I'd rather go with Microsoft as opposed to Google's Adsense program. Can you tell me how I can now activate the Microsoft adcentre so that I can get ads on my site. keep up the good work. Can you also tell me wther Microsoft will be holding any seminar's regarding the adCenter in London. Thanks

re: Updates to the pubCenter BETA in the new release

Chris Norred - MSFT — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:46:20 GMT

Hi Alex, the availability is based on where the publisher is based, but thank you for the interest.

re: Updates to the pubCenter BETA in the new release

Becky — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:07:29 GMT

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

re: Updates to the pubCenter BETA in the new release

Alex — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:47:33 GMT

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

re: Updates to the pubCenter BETA in the new release

Mike — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:26:29 GMT

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!

re: Competitive Ad Filter – How can I filter?

Seadog Inc — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:22:47 GMT

Have you ever thought of having a seminal,coference where you can enlighten people of what you do and interest them how it could make their lives easier?

re: Ad Colors: Choosing the right color for the best ad unit

systemmechanic — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:00:36 GMT

I agree with your results. I have tried to post ads in blog with different colors but they didn't worked for me. So when I changed the colors of text, background they worked for me in increasing the revenue

re: Updates to the pubCenter BETA in the new release

Akshay Bhatt — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:09:41 GMT

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.

re: Competitive Ad Filter – How can I filter?

Cathrina M. Palomo — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:12:53 GMT

I have been advertising for over 6 years now and still can't find the right solutions to get people to want to buy any of my products. I blog, use forums, send notices to families and friend at work and also partner up with other people. Is it possible that my links are being re-routed and I am not aware of it? Does the in-house private browsing make it safer or is it we are just not getting the right content or perfect edge to out match my competitors. I really feel that this the case with me.

re: Updates to the pubCenter BETA in the new release

Adsense days over — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:08:17 GMT

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.

re: Updates to the pubCenter BETA in the new release

Shane — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:07:30 GMT

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.

re: Updates to the pubCenter BETA in the new release

Ram Gunjal — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:31:52 GMT

Thanks for the information,

I will try it.