Ads and image placement - The official word from Google

WEll...Bye bye AdsenseBeautifier
Lucky I didn't use it a lot in my blog

 

I used to have images next to my ads, i later tried without and found my ctr and revenue increased... HEAPS!

If you have targeted ads they are better than having images next to your ads.

 

You mean images next to adsense. having ads (non-contextual ones) next to adsense is still perfectly fine.

 

OK, the images next to ads are now prohibited. Rules are made by Google and we must play with them. How about consentrating into good quality content? I have a feeling that it will bring some quality traffic, relevant ads and those two together will create high CTR and revenue.

 

Read this :
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/12/ad-and-image-placement-policy.html

Your opinions ?

 

I just read it too, finally a clear statement.

 

Damn that Google

p.l.u.r.

 

No surprises here other than I'm a little surprised this wasn't announced sooner. I am actually quite pleased, this issue can finally be brushed under the carpet. Everyone was aware that if they were using images aligned with their ads that they were walking on thin ice.

 

I knew it would happen 1 day. I had never used that strategy myself.

 

wonderful clarification and also timely help for the webmasters...

 

damn.. i knew that would come

 

Google is right about that. Because images have nothing to do with the ads then you're probably cheating users.

 

This will definetely low the CTR...

 

So when is this in effect? So many webpages to change... There are also lots of websites out there with images beside their adsense.. I dont think they update often lol.

 

For you maybe, but it won't be affecting my CTR at all

You seem to be under the impression that this is something new when in actual fact it isn't. You should never have been aligning images alongside your ad units.

 

maybe this will make some of those MFA pages disapear

 

Great news. I'm glad Google have clarified this, I always thought those sort of ad placements were misleading.

 

Wow, finally a clear statement from adsense.

For those, who are using this method, goodbye clicks

 

Why? MFA sites are violating the TOS anyway so I doubt their owners will be concerned with this. Besides, the majority of MFA site's are that poorly implemented anyway aligning images would be considered too much hard work.

 

you're wrong. MFA sites does'nt violates TOS, otherwise their accounts could be closed way back... most of the MFA sites are created mainly for Arbitrage purpose and their clicks pay rate are very much low, may be google may be look after these in a short while..