Font size in AdSense text ads

Discussion in 'Placement / Reviews / Examples' started by baldonius, Mar 17, 2014.

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    I set the font size in AdSense text ads to be 'Small' because I believe this fits in nicest with the page design.

    However many ads are coming up as medium and large font. Small font ads only appear a minority of the time.

    Is there any other way to further encourage AdSense ads to only display 'Small' font size? Or does AdSense only take the design spec you put in as a loose guideline?
     
    baldonius, Mar 17, 2014 IP
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    qwikad.com Illustrious Member Affiliate Manager

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    Have you tried to set them to the"Use account default" option? I don't know if it's going to help, but it might.
     
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    Worked for a day but it's ignoring it again. Seems that AdSense serves whatever kind of size text it wants, only uses your request as a suggestion.
     
    baldonius, Mar 19, 2014 IP
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    I've had the same problem with my ads before. Sadly, can't provide you with a solution. I just let them continue doing what they're doing cuz I can't be bothered to figure it out.
    If you manage to do it though, please let us know how you did it.
     
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    Pat Flynn's ads on his securityguardtraininghq.com site homepage are always small font, and blend in really nicely. But he makes so much money from AdSense I think that he must have been upgraded from AdSense to DoubleClick for Publishers which gives you much more control over your ads.
     
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    By the way, I can tell you how to keep the 468x60 ad's font always large ( like so: http://qwikad.com/366/posts/20-Biz-Opps/ ).

    Simply choose Arial and Large from the options. Somehow it only works for 468x60 ads.
     
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    I've got Arial and small chosen on one of my other sites, but AdSense seems to ignore the 'small' bit there too. Really annoying! Thanks for the suggestion though.
     
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    This might help - I altered the code on my site. It used to have this on each page...

    <div class="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
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    ...as the heading for each page. It just calls the post title and makes it a hyperlink.

    So I changed it to...

    <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
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    Because I was concerned that my rankings were slow. So now each page has its own h1 tag, which I didn't realise they never had. No wonder the rankings were iffy.

    Voila, an accidental result was that more AdSense on all the pages then seemed to show small fonts and look exactly as I want them to. Not all of them do but having h1 definitely helps tell Google what your site is about.
     
    Last edited: Mar 23, 2014
    baldonius, Mar 23, 2014 IP