Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'ppa'

Some major news hit the presses last night, where Google announced on the AdWords Blog and AdSense Blog that they are retiring the pay-per-action program, putting an end to Google AdSense's referral program. I cannot say I am surprised, we...

Posted on July 1, 2008 7:43 AM

Google launched their Pay Per Action ads a little over a year ago. Since then they have tried expanding it and marketing it to publishers and advertisers. We have extensive coverage of the Google Pay Per Action product at this...

Posted on June 17, 2008 7:50 AM

Want some cash? Got a Facebook application developed? Numerous reports to Facebook developers suggest that Facebook is looking for some cash, and they're willing to share. An application developer has received the following email: Dear Facebook Application Developer, Would you...

Posted on October 31, 2007 9:15 AM

The Inside AdWords blog announced a new CPA bidding product yesterday called Conversion Optimizer. The tool is intended to "help you meet your ROI objectives by automatically managing your bids according to a maximum CPA goal. By automating the bidding...

Posted on September 25, 2007 9:35 AM

Earlier this week we reported Problems & Solutions for Google Referral Ads via a WebmasterWorld thread. Since then, the thread has grown to a point where AdSenseAdvisor has come up with a nice list of features and fixes they would...

Posted on August 16, 2007 7:51 AM

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the problems publishers are having with Google's referral ads. Due to those discussions, AdSenseAdvisor started a thread over at WebmasterWorld providing some feedback and solutions to some of the problems. While...

Posted on August 13, 2007 7:57 AM

Now that Google has expanded referrals 2.0 (i.e. pay per action) to more publishers, more advertisers are giving it a try. A DigitalPoint Forums thread goes through some of the troubles some advertisers are having with the program. So, they...

Posted on July 18, 2007 7:35 AM

According to a WebmasterWorld thread, Google is sending out more Pay Per Action emails to numerous advertisers, including those in Germany and Australia. Thus, it appears that Google PPA is being rolled out to other countries since it is already...

Posted on July 16, 2007 10:30 AM

Search Engine Watch Forums moderator, Discovery, has been noticing weird conversions sent from Google's Pay Per Action model. He asks in a Search Engine Watch Forums thread if there are AdSense publishers gaming the referrals 2.0, i.e. Pay Per Action,...

Posted on July 16, 2007 7:00 AM

Google recently launched a version 2.0 of their referrals program, also know as pay for action ads. AdSenseAdvisor posted at a WebmasterWorld thread to clarify what Google publishers can and cannot do with these ads. Yes, you can encourage people...

Posted on July 3, 2007 8:18 AM

The Inside AdSense Blog announced that Google has launched referrals 2.0, or Pay Per Action, to all AdSense publishers who have the referrals option. Many people only had referral products for Google products, such as AdSense, AdWords, Google Toolbar, Firefox,...

Posted on June 29, 2007 7:20 AM

Remember I was complaining that Advertisers Still Want More Impressions from Google Pay Per Action? Well, they got it. As I reported at Search Engine Land, Google has officially expanded the Pay Per Action test worldwide. Google announced today the...

Posted on June 21, 2007 6:58 AM

I have finally been able to find an advertiser who set up a Google Pay Per Action text ad through the help of Search Engine Watch Forums. The ad should appear as the next phrase " " and it should...

Posted on April 30, 2007 8:21 AM