Hello, i am wondering if anyone of you have noticed drastically decrease of your ctr after the "image near to ads" rule. Mine went from 15% 25% to 3% 5%. Thanks-.
yupe, that's true. its decrease, but lucky for me i still got other site, that didnt use image beside ads from the begining. but dont worry, change your ads layout, its should slow it down.
I find it funny why people think this rule is somehow new when its not. The only thing that has changed is that the rule was clarified And yes, I have been tricked into clicking ads beside images before which I have to say is so damnd agreviating ive never visited the sites that do it again! You should feel good that your providing more worth while clicks to advertisers who in turn might feel more generous in investing more into adsense ads! Which will potentially raise the income of all AdSense users and we all benifit Pierce
Mine didn't change...but that's because I wasn't using the images near ads thing before so nothing changed for me at all.
You can still use images near ads, but should get permission from google, I requested to review my site for images near ads and they said its ok to do that, the thing google asks not to mislead the image thats not related to the ad, but still the decision is in google hands, better way send your website to google and ask them, they'll clearly say its ok or not.. I did and the replied and i am still running images next to ads and my CTR still goes the same good way..
I have already talked about this issue in this thread and the image sample also is there... http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=202659