I dont think it will really matter much. Also, I think if Google find sthe same thing is happening as before, they may prohibit this practice in the future.
You are judging it after 12 hours of my post ? you need a week to judge a change in the ad placement/color
If the image ad is just an image of some text, then it looks like a text ad. (I hope that makes sense, I just came back from Starbucks and am kinda caffeinated).
I haven't understand the ideia (mu nglish is not that good) Can someone post a site with it implemented?
Have been using this placement for 4 months now... and overall... it seems no better or worse than other (legal) placements used on the same site or other arcade sites. http://www.jazzarcade.net/
Thank for the tip but it may work only with the nice attractive image ads. People sometimes just put large text as image ad.
Thanks for sharing the tip. I was using the Wordpress 'Adsense Beautifier' plugin which posts a small image next to AdSense ads. It's nice to have a completely legit method of doing something similar. I just set this up on my site today, I'll check back into this thread in a couple months and post my results.
I haven't specifically defined the advertisements to show images, but this is typically the manner in which Adsense displays them on my online games website. I'm not certain, but the CTR may be increasing merely due to more visitors clicking the image advertisements, rather than the text links besides it. The only unquestionable means of knowing for sure is if you experiment with two units that are entirely composed of links, then an image and links combination, prior to evaluating both advertisements as images. Only then, will you be able to determine whether it's solely the image advertisement that is being clicked more (thereby heightening your CTR) or increased earnings are being derived from the unit with links. As many of us are aware, if the former is the case, your EPC (earnings-per-click) would decline.
Very good tip but I don't think that the ctr will increase a lot becaue we are showing image ad and I think the terittory around this ad will be user unfriendly.
I'm going to trial this technique but I'll have a private advertisers ad next to a rectangle unit - I'll see how it goes. I have seen this idea bounced around before, but didn't previously implement it because the Google image ad units don't really compliment the text ad units. Like for example if you wanted to place an image ad unit next to a 336 x 280 you'd have to place another large rectangle image ad next to it to have them be of a similar size such that it looks neat and tidy in a website design, but two large rectangle units next to each other is advertising over kill... I'm not sure how Google feels about the technique (I imagine they wouldn't be completely against it) but it would be much better if there was an image ad in the 120 x 240 format - that way you could place a much narrower image ad next to the text rectangle units which are the main converting units, but there isn't - so I have had to opt for a private advertisers ad instead. I'm interested to see if it increases the earnings of the Google ad unit, or if it stays the same or drops. I personally expect it to drop a bit, but if it is more than made up by the increase in earnings from the private ad then I guess that can be considered a win.