Who would want 6 units anyway? Takes away the value of the site. The 6th unit would be getting 1 cent clicks most likely. Col
I dont think it is an abuse, premium publishers seem to get a few allowances over and above the standard terms and conditions. With YPN as a valid alternative, I would imagine google would need to bend the rules for some premium publishers.
This is great for site that has a low traffic, the more the ad unit the more the chance to have a click.
Six here too: http://www.joystiq.com/ I made the n00b mistake of reporting them once - oops! And they have to be premium - Google's code only allows 3 units to be shown, even if you insert 6.
They are a "Premium Publisher," simply because of the fact that they're part of the b5media blog network
I would never, ever use 6 units, visitors wouldnt like it at all, including me, would even do it if revenue increased.
I doubt if they would allow 6 even to premium publishers. I also think a publisher would not want 6 even if they had a chanceto do so.
The 4th ad unit won't show the ads, google detects only 3 ad units on a page and if the 4th ad code detected it wont showup the ads on the 4th code... so, it seems they're premium publishers..
Jeremy Wright, the President of b5media, stopped by my blog and left the following two comments: "Actually this is just a bug. We have an adserving partner for US visitors, and used the AdSense code as backfill code on these. We’re in the process of fixing this (should take about a week to find another backfill partner for non-US traffic)" "Just found out this is a wider ranging issue, not the minor bug I thought it was. We’re on this like white on rice, thanks for the heads up!" However, there are still blogs in the Weblogs Inc. network (which is also a Premium Publisher) using six ad units per page
20 million uniques monthly or pageviews I think (have read it somewhere and now I can't remember if it is uniques or pageviews) This is bad for someone targetting to be a premium member and forgetting the right goal