Webmaster Forum UK View topic

Ash · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 23

I have just been reading about the beta Pay per Action Ads that Google is doing, somehow i do not think that this will ever be as big as adsense.

The Pay per Action Ads seem to me to be more like an affiliate scheme when someone buys something through your site you get so much commission or a set price, Pay per Action Ads are basically the same

quote " Cost per action (CPA) or pay per action (PPA) is different. Instead of paying for a certain number of impressions or for clicks on ads, advertisers pay every time someone clicks through the ad and completes a particular action. The action can be anything that can be tracked online: signing up for a newsletter, giving some personal information for a sales lead, buying a product, or even some combination of these actions (say $1 if the web surfer fills out a form and $5 if he or she buys something)." end Quote from seochat.com
( see the full story here)
And how is Google going to pay you? and how much? , if the advertiser is paying $1 per sign up to their newsletter or what ever then Google is only going to give the webmaster a very small percentage just like it does with adsense, to be honest do we really need another Google advertising program??

The upside to this though is that i might now stop people making the wac sites (websites for adsense cash) as i call them, this in turn should reduce the amount of crap sites being developed everyday, just for adsense. This of course will not happen over night, and i will probably be dead before the age of adsense sites disappear altogether.

Does anyone have any examples of sites that are already showing these ads i have a had a quick look but have not seen anything just yet.