hey everyone, i was playing with putting adsense inside the posts on my blogspot blog and was surprised when i saw new ad look. it was a normal square but without any 'Ads by Google' here is how it looks: and here is normal ad in the next post: (code is same for both) I think i have seen ads like this on engadget and some tripod sites, it was said to be an option provided only for big adsense publishers. Note: only third ad block gets this look and when there are less than 3 blocks they come up normal.
The only time I've seen the top version is when the code has been corrupted (sometimes accidentally and sometimes deliberately) - I'd check your code is OK before assuming it's a new test by adsense.
Resputin, thanks for your answer but why would google display ads in corrupted code? i have translated ads javascript to XML using instructions http://www.blogcrowds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=542"]here. they say they have contacted Google and it was okay with TOS.
If you try to modify the adsense code in any way..u will be breaking their TOS which can get you banned.
just figured it out, problem was that there was <br /> tag added on at the end of every line of adsense code. and i did not do that myself, i tried to integrate adsense into blogger posts and after trying to convert adsense code to XML format thats the code template has generated. also on adsense help pages there is a peace of info about this, they say that must be because of hosting and if we face that problem we should contact our hosting to resolve the problem.
this is how it happened i have a blog on Blogger and i wanted to experiment with making money on it On blogger, you have an option to insert any html code into blog but the limit is sidebar and footer. So if you want to place your ads inside the post you cannot do that. searching for how to make that possible i found discussion here: http://www.blogcrowds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=542 where they say you should change adsense code into XML format and they have a widget that does that for you. many people have done that and it works okay because you change format to XML and insert that code into Blogger Template and when you go and look into source code of a page adsense code there comes back to be normal, same with one you get from Google. But here sth went wrong and my template generated normal adsense code but with BR tags at the end of every line of javascript, which cause this special look if you want to test just put <br /> to the end of every line of adsense code)) but i am not sure how safe is that and if google pays you for clicks on that ads))
I saw such ads on some web sites, i suspected it is change in code. I tried to check it by giving some wrong values in adsense code, so i got such ads but changed everything back to original before Google takes any action.