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Rocco Augusto
07-18-2007, 07:57 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=10098' target='_blank'>http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=10098</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Google has begun inviting mobile website developers to display Google ads on their sites as part of a limited beta test. The offer extends to the mobile environment Google’s AdSense programme which lets website owners earn revenue by placing advertisements on their sites. Google runs the backend network that places ads on the sites relevant to site content. Site owners earn revenue when visitors click on the ads."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/augusto-18072007-googleadsense.gif" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />This is an incredible cool milestone for all Google AdSense users. I have been a big AdSense user for a while now and have been looking for ways to convert mobile traffic to revenue. At the moment, this technology is only compatible with XHTML (Extensible HTML), CHTML (Compact HTML) and WML (Wireless Markup Language) which covers a large majority of markup that is used by mobile developers. If you host a mobile site, I highly suggest trying to get in on this beta program!

Mike Temporale
07-19-2007, 02:22 PM
I can understand the need for it, but I don't know that I want to pay the price for downloading it on my phone. (While I have an unlimited data plan, not everyone does - and they would be paying to download an ad)

Data prices really need to come down before more people are comfortable with seeing ads on their device, IMHO.

Rocco Augusto
07-19-2007, 05:39 PM
Data prices really need to come down before more people are comfortable with seeing ads on their device, IMHO.

Pfft, that's just in Canada where the price of data is a loaf a bread and your first born! ;)

Data prices are not the only things that need to improve. Data access speeds in general would have to increase. Sure the text based ads are only a few KB's but on a slow and laggy EDGE network, that could take an eternity to download.