Changing Ad box alignment changes ads... really!

I was just adding a new page today and playing with aligning the Google Ad when I noticed the ads changed depending on how I aligned the table containing the ad.

At first I thought it was just different ads for each page load but after testing out left, right and center on repeated reloads I can say the following:

If you wrap your google ad in a table (for convenience), try changing the alignment of the table and you may get different (better?) ads delivered.

I have not seen this posted anywhere so I thought I would make a quick mention.

Of course YMMV

Steve

 

I really dought the bot even considers the ad is placed in a table. I am pretty sure the code is ignored and it looks for text.

 

I've pointed this out in my AdSense-success.com article. Check the link below:

http://www.adsense-success.com/sizing-your-ads.htm

 

Good review of adsense topics, my44.

 

Chaning the ad style every week dynamically would also help i guess.

 

That could be tiring though. I usually experiment with one type of ads for say 1 to 1 1/2 months. I only have 200 html pages.

 

I use PHP to dynamically place ads!

 

Hmm, I wish I know how to use PHP. My CPanel seems to have PHP but I never venture into it.

Tell me, how easy is it to have php pages? For example if I write tonnes of articles and would love to find a way to organize them.

As of time being, I manually change the html page one by one.

 

My tests show that placement very much helps the ads because if they are near, say, header tags (H1, 2, 3, etc), as well as content, that are full of the keywords you want, thus ads served will be higher quality.

 

proximity to ad words has an effect as well? interesting...

 

This is exactly what my site is doing now, thanks for the link - I'll let you know if it works for me. Also, the code im my tables keep reverting back to 100% instead of the size - any suggestions?

As for the ads changing, hasnt made any difference and I am happy they are topic realated.

 

Heard about that too, but I couldn't be bothered because in my website's genre, the number of possible ads that would appear is quite small anyway.

 

You shouldn't worry too much.

On your MYSIWYG editor (in edit-mode), you'll notice that the table-cell which contains the AdSense code does NOT take into form the actual width size, say 728px for Leaderboard or 160px for Skyscraper.

But when you switch to preview-mode or upload your file to the web server, the table will adjust by itself.

It can be tricky though, as I pointed out. Before you begin, pls know first hand whether you want to use fixed table-size or use percentage table-size.

I hope this makes sense.

 

Yes thanks for this.

I have decided against keeping the % and entered the dimension instead, hasnt made much difference.

Also, I did notice the layout change from the preview to live page. That always plays in the back of my mind during the design process and I dont like it!

 

Thanks for the tip, it's helpful

 

thank you for the tip.

 

it will be an advantage for us webmaster if we will use dynamic pages than static pages. in dynamic website, if we will change the layout, we don't need to change every page but only the template of it. So by changing the template everything will be changed too.

So if you are using PHP pages then you can vary the Adsense placement dynamically and it will be automatically placed on every pages of your site based on the instruction of your PHP code.

 

something like if we edit blogger template?

 

Yep! There are plenty of blogger type php scripts out there. There is a learning curve setting your first one up, but help is readily available. You may want to do some reading in the CMS (Content Management Systems) area of this forum.

 

thanks jazzylee77
i haven't tried CMS on my site, since I only have few pages on it.