Adsense Revenue Sharing - What you need to know ?

If you're using adsense on your site or on bookmarking sites then i'm sure you know what revenue sharing sites are and how they work. But i'm confident that none of you have seen through their non-transparent algorithm. If you want to know if they're showing fair amount of impression or placements then you need to find this out on your own on for each site separately. In order to keep this hub free from finger-pointing or as attack to any specific sites i prefer not to mention the name of any such adsense revenue sharing sites. If you want to know about the sites that run suspicious algorithm then you should ask in forums instead of posting comment here or via private mail. 

This hub is an attempt to educate users about adsense revenue sharing sites which are not transparent with their ad display program. I hope this helps people who are spending a lot of time producing content on these sites in the hope of getting clicks for their bookmarks or article. 

Adsense Ads positioning on Revenue Sharing Sites

Source: Adyesha

How to check the impressions ?

You can't click on your ads in order to check the impressions. So best way to check the placement and impressions on page is by opening source of the page(article) and tracking your adsense ID. If you're using firefox then follow these steps -

• Browse to your article or bookmark where you're getting 100% or 80% or whatever impressions.
• Go to View -> Page Source (CTRL+U)
• This will open a new window and will display the sourcecode of the page.
• Press CTRL+F and insert your adsense ID(numbers). Check how many times it appears on page.

Similarly you can view source on chrome, internet explorer as well. Just check the respective short keys and settings to do that. 

If it's full page 50% sharing then you have to browse a lot to see if it's giving you exact number of shares. If it's 100% sharing then see the position of your ads and owners ads on same page. 

So what's the problem ?

Problem is that many site owners are not playing fair with this algorithm. Some sites offer 100% revenue sharing and place only 1 banner of yours on content and then slap 4-5 their own ads. Some sites offer 50% impressions and place 2-3 ads near your single banner ad in your 50% impressions. No matter what the sharing percentage is they keep on slapping their ads on your content with your ID showing at the same time. In many cases they even drop your ads from the set of impressions assigned to you so if your analytics reports a hit but adsense fails then you can understand where things are going wrong. You get very less percentage here because such owners are aware of profitable ad placements. I find this situation similar to working for peanuts in return of backlink and hell lot of content. 

Adding tracker to your hubpages bookmarks

Some bookmarking site owners even modify the bookmarks made by you on their site. They add their referral tracker to your hub URL, which isn't fair in my opinion. Why to get your own hub URL's overwritten by such sites ? Nowhere they mentioned in TOS that they have right to overwrite hubpages URL's for their own tracker which doesn't change unless edited. If you spot this on any revenue sharing site then simply stop bookmarking your hubs on such sites. 

Is this fair ?

It's upto you now to decide if it's fair or not. Some people are comfortable with only single ad banner that stays with 5 ads of owner on their content all the time. Personally i don't find such practice from adsense revenue sharing sites fair because i think if you offer 100% revenue share to us then at-least keep us on profitable ad slots with fair amount of ads for both of us. What's the point of keeping single ad banner from user in the group of 5 banners from owner claiming 100% revenue share ? or even 50% share ? Stop referring other members to such sites and let them know if these sites are not playing fair. 

Think before spending your valuable time on such sites, instead start your own blog and spend time creating content on it.