Google Adsense

Is it allowable to place more than one Google Adsense ad on the same page? Furthermore, even if it is allowable, is it a good idea?

The idea is to put a small horizontal banner at the top and the bottom of each page.

Thoughts?

 

The AdSense FAQ used to completely disallow this.

The current FAQ makes it seem possible, but it is not currently technically possible because the ads would duplicate each other.

To quote from the AdSense FAQ:

I believe that Google will soon (whatever that means) deploy the technical capability of running multiple ads without "any advertisement in common with any other ad unit."

My web pages tend to be very long. I'd like to deploy two skyscrapers, one on top of the other.

 

A header and footer wouldn't be too annoying, and in this case it should be acceptable to have the same ad. The next question is does this count as 2 impressions?

 

I've done testing on this.

You will see double the impressions, yes. You will *probably* see an increase in clicks by 20-40%. The Ads will likely duplicate eachother quite a bit- but in the limited research I've done, most pages with over 500 words (articles) do tend to have better odds of attracting different ads for each.

I currently do not implement this, but see no reason they would disallow it.

 

So if your impressions double and your clicks go up 20-40%, how will that affect "Smart Pricing"?

 

Google has sent me an email saying that it's not allowed.
You are not supposed to put 2 adsense ads on same page.

 

I think this is related to Google and some other ads, not to 2 Googles

 

Interesting- I wrote them and they agreed to allow me to run the test. Perhaps just for the test? Not sure why they would even allow that then though..

 

What are you testing...trying to have different ads display?

 

I got 2 google ads on my site, but so far haven't receive any email from google saying that its against their policy. But I think 2 ads on the same page is not a good idea and seems like I haven't create more revenue from it commpared to one ads on a page

 

Yeah Guy- I am not doing it anymore, however. What I did try out was having ads displayed at the top and bottom of the page and switching content half way through the page. (*i.e. having two news articles on one page, one about 2001 Toyota Prius' another about Hiking boots- for example)

I noticed that google seemed to take the top half of the page for the top ad, and the bottom for the mid to lower portion of the page.

 

Mine to show us your site to see the actual placement of the ads? Sound like a brilliant idea

 

Ill have to set up the page again- since it was simply a test, I didn't keep it up. (the ad clicks do not count towards my adsense account.) Ill post the URL when I get time.

 

I wondered why this sounded very incorrect...

Ad Placement
Multiple ad units may be displayed on each Web site page, but no ad unit shall contain any advertisement in common with any other ad unit.

https://www.google.com/adsense/policies

 

maybe it google didn't allowed to put same ad format on the same page, ie 2 skycraper or 2 leaderboard on the same page, but you can put 1 skycraper and 1 leaderboard

 

no, you can't do that.

when they say "multiple ads" they mean that they allow adsense to be on a page as well as a different unrelated advertising service's ads.

you can only have one google adsense on your page.

 

read point 2.

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms

Maybe Im wrong, but I have yet to be pointed to a page where google doesnt allow it.....

" (such groups of Ads and related Google search queries collectively referred to as "Ad Units") "

" You may display more than one (1) Ad Unit on each Site Web page, "

 

In February I was running a test of two, three or more ads on my "screen" by using frames. iframes and the pages behind had differing titles and descriptions.

Someone in real estate reported me and I was told to take them down - which I did

However soon after G changed the rules to allow multiple ads.

I however did not return to 2 or more ads, for different reasons, but it is possible to vary things by using frames or iframes with interesting results but it doesn't increase the click thru rate.

 

Wouldn't the ad be completely based on the html/keywords of the frame in which the ad resided?

 

They allow up to three ad-units on one page. Whether or not that's advisable depends on the page.