Does anyone know if you can alter the ads so they can show 4 ads per unit again via contacting Adsense rather than just the 1 ad (some ads show 4, but they have done it so some also show 1, since them my Adsense CTR has dropped by 30% on all sites and all places on each site). I know contacting Adsense meant that you could get CPM ads disabled so you just show CPC ads, but not sure if they offer this also. Doing this means some sites that earn more with their 1 ad per ad unit would like it and want it kept that way, but the ones that had a knock with CTR would want their ads changed back to the old ad style and therefore will make Google more profits overall in the long run.
Negative. Google does what Google wants. I still have ads showing from sites that I have disabled with the Content Filter. Google knows best. Maybe if you are a Premium Publisher you can get some kind of customization, but little guys either play or quit.
Rightyo. Personally Google doesn't know my traffic better than me, so wouldn't say google knows best there, and I certainly know the cause of the CTR drop is because of their ads number per ad. Anyway, thanks.
If they are showing one ad, that ad has the highest pay out. They may not have enough ads in inventory to display more than one ad relevant to your site.
No, I believe they do have enough inventory to show the full amount of relevant ads on my site. It's only since May where they changed it so they showed 1 ad at times in the ad units where the ad is in huge font. That's the reason I told them to stop CPM ads on my site in the first place is because the font was to big and tacky and now they are doing it with these CPC ads which have given me a 30% drop in CTR and earnings. I'm now receiving the lowest CTR from Google since I joined it practically when the program first started on the net.
its better one doesn't play around with google adsense.. getting a google adsense account is a bog thing ... why do you want to mess with google adsense.. try playing with adbrite..
I'm not playing around with Adsense and never will. I earn my living from Adsense and have been for many years. All I asked is if you can contact Google so they will disable the 1 large ad per unit, don't think that's called messing around, but asking a question. All I wanted is an answer yes or no if they offer this feature. If they don't, then I will accept it. PS, I'm not changing to Adbrite as I still like Adsense and always have, I also believe I'm still earning more than I would from Adbrite, but having a 30% hit on Adsense earnings can lose you a lot of money that you was once earning. In anycase, I take it by contacting Adsense, they would not alter it unlike the CPM thing.
Thanks for your help on this, I decided to use the last option and re-design parts of the site to make it better optimized for the new ad formats. Hopefully CTR will go up now. Yesterday was my worst day with Adsense in what I believe is over 3 years even though I'm sending over double the amount of traffic to it now. Yesturdays CTR was just over double below a 3 year average and earnings was around 25% compared to what my 3 yr average is. With the re-design, the ads look much more blended now rather than looking like ads hopefully, so hopefully the CTR will have a turnaround. Anyway, thanks guys.
Just to let you all know, the new ads locations failed as I got even worse CTR. But I then sat back, relaxed and thought for a while. Overtime I had moved one ad and removed some of some of the pages. Now this ad is only 1 out of the 3 that I moved. I therefore decided to put all ads back yesturday and move the 1 ad back to where it once was. Surprisingly my CTR was back to normal yesturday, so decided I will now leave the ads where they are. But the most important thing is, I decided to change a bit of design on the site and doing that has bought todays CTR up further meaning I've had the best CTR in a while. So yesterdays earings was the best this month so far and todays may even be better. So I now believe I was mistaken/wrong about Google and their ads, it was more to do with my ad placement and number of ads. Just goes to show how important ad placement is to aim to increase income/CTR. Last post about this now, but thanks.