Up until a couple days ago i had my ads colors setup to where the url was the same color as the background (hiding the url's of the ads) Been doing this for a long time with no problems.. Now the urls have started showing in black and i didnt change anything? anyone else seeing this?
I am experiencing the same... too. maybe google now crawling the entire page and detect the background of the site. But this technique works well using small image as background.
my clicks have dropped about 50% since this started happening.. im hoping it was because the weekend that the clicks dropped... ill know more today
the clicks for today seem about normal.. i guess that it was just a weekend thing that they where low the last 2 days.. but still it sucks that we are being forced to show the url now.
something that i just noticed... when im getting the regular 4 ad's they dont show up.. if google shows 3 or less then the url shows. this sucks
Who intentionally goes out of their way NOT to click on an ad? I didn't think you were allowed to hide the URLs on the ad units that had URLs...
It is much easier for the visitor to just click the ad than to type the url... And if the visitor does not want to click the ad for some reason, he/she can easily find the url anyway....
Yeah I am seeing urls on some of my ads that did not show them before. Skyscrapers specifically... Don't see them on any of my other ones...
I never seen anything like it, what is GOOGLE doing, things are changing all the time, but for the worse.