Taboola experience's and advise please

[Perrybeard82]

Does anyone here have any experience with Taboola. As just been approved after speaking to the account manager but they want me to sign a contract stating there the only as provider I can use on that website for 2 years. So looking to hear other people's experiences before deciding to sign or not

 

[KraftyKyle]

Sounds like a bad idea unless you think they're a great partner to work with. Why do they want to lock you in for so long? Do you have other options too?

 

[HenryObi]

Sounds like a bad idea.

Well, I don't think it's a bad idea, because all their publishers sign same contract. @Perrybeard82 I think you should read the contract very well and tell us what your fears are maybe you can get a good advise on what to do. About the contract, are they saying you can only use Taboola and no other adnetwork including adsense?
One question does your site actually get upto 500k monthly pageviews before accepted?

 

[Perrybeard82]

Well, I don't think it's a bad idea, because all their publishers sign same contract. @Perrybeard82 I think you should read the contract very well and tell us what your fears are maybe you can get a good advise on what to do. About the contract, are they saying you can only use Taboola and no other adnetwork including adsense?
One question does your site actually get upto 500k monthly pageviews before accepted?

it's a new site so only getting around 8/10 thousand views a day at the moment tbh when I read up.i thought they needed 500k q month but they make allowances if the sites new. Spoke to the account manager gave website details ect. Then missed a couple of calls so he emailed saying about where he thinks the ads should be placed (standard 1x4 right rail on home page then Taboola feed at the bottom of each article for best earning potential) contract states

I've outlined our standard publisher agreement terms below:

• The publisher and Taboola agree to partner for a period of 2 years, during which Taboola will be the only content recommendation partner on your site.
  
  
• To ensure a mutually beneficial relationship, Taboola will share 50% of the revenue generated from each click or view of sponsored content on your site.
  
  
• You will receive your first payment 45 days from the end of the calendar month. Once you receive your first payment, you will be on a 30-day rolling cycle.
  
  
• The content displayed on the widget are from advertisers who are part of our network. While they have been manually approved by an Account Manager at Taboola, you have control to block any advertiser/content on your site via Taboola Backstage.
  

Please confirm you agree with the above and I will send you an electronic agreement for you to sign.

Main worry is if it don't perform as well as AdSense would then 2 years would be a long lock in

 

[Perrybeard82]

Sounds like a bad idea unless you think they're a great partner to work with. Why do they want to lock you in for so long? Do you have other options too?

Other options was going be adsense and/or amazon

 

[HenryObi]

it's a new site so only getting around 8/10 thousand views a day at the moment tbh when I read up.i thought they needed 500k q month but they make allowances if the sites new. Spoke to the account manager gave website details ect. Then missed a couple of calls so he emailed saying about where he thinks the ads should be placed (standard 1x4 right rail on home page then Taboola feed at the bottom of each article for best earning potential) contract states

I've outlined our standard publisher agreement terms below:

• The publisher and Taboola agree to partner for a period of 2 years, during which Taboola will be the only content recommendation partner on your site.
  
  
• To ensure a mutually beneficial relationship, Taboola will share 50% of the revenue generated from each click or view of sponsored content on your site.
  
  
• You will receive your first payment 45 days from the end of the calendar month. Once you receive your first payment, you will be on a 30-day rolling cycle.
  
  
• The content displayed on the widget are from advertisers who are part of our network. While they have been manually approved by an Account Manager at Taboola, you have control to block any advertiser/content on your site via Taboola Backstage.

Please confirm you agree with the above and I will send you an electronic agreement for you to sign.

Main worry is if it don't perform as well as AdSense would then 2 years would be a long lock in

If I were to be in your shoes, I'd accept it. The only thing there is the first condition that Taboola would be the only content recommendation network on your sitw, basically what they're saying is you agree to using only one native ad network(in this case Taboola) on your site for this period of 2 years, note that AdSense is not a content recommendation network unless maybe they consider AdSense matched content a form of content recommendation network, which I'd advise you yank off and replace with Taboola if you had them on already.

For me it's no big deal accepting the conteact, after all Taboola is one of the highest paying natice ad network itsi even harder getting your site approved.

 

[HenryObi]

Other options was going be adsense and/or amazon

Like i said earlier it's not a bad idea.

You use AdSense and Taboola together on your site, Amazon wouldn't earn you much unless you tailor your site to promoting amazon ads/products etc

 

[Perrybeard82]

Sweet cheers dude going to get it signed and sent now

 

[Perrybeard82]

It's even harder getting your site approved.

.Funny thing is adseAAd had rejected the site for having too little content so order more articles which are arriving at the weekend but taboola approved it as is lol

 

[Deleted member 813988]

Does anyone here have any experience with Taboola. As just been approved after speaking to the account manager but they want me to sign a contract stating there the only as provider I can use on that website for 2 years. So looking to hear other people's experiences before deciding to sign or not

That's completely normal for the native ad networks, most of them do that.
They do not want their units to go along with units from their competitor. Since native units have permanent placement they want to be exclusive.
What this actually means that if you do put other ad networks on the site they will have to close your account. You can test different networks before choosing which one you want to run on the site, but make sure units don't run along.

My experience with Taboola is poor vs OutBrain, RevContent, and Content.ad.

 

[ClickBaiter]

Yeah you can usually ask for a test-period of like 2 weeks before committing to any contract. That way you can a/b test various networks.

 

[Perrybeard82]

Yh had taboola running for about 10 days but going to ditch them and stick with media net and maybe look at revcontent outbrain and retry AdSense now the website has more pages .as with taboola I was making between $0.5 and $3 a day (most days below $1) with the same traffic media net brings in between $5 to $32 (average around $11) so although 10 days probably isn't long enough to do a full test I personally feel I'm losing too much running them in my neich

 

[Einar]

Wow, i didn`t know media net brings so much more....Thanks for that Perry. I`m gonna try to get accepted as well.

 

[Perrybeard82]

Wow, i didn`t know media net brings so much more....Thanks for that Perry. I`m gonna try to get accepted as well.

Yh with taboola best I got was $2.59 for 52 clicks from the USA. In my opioopi media.net gives a lot higher returns