Comments on: AdSense Click Zone & The Money Makers

By: SEO Optimization

SEO Optimization — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:25:34 +0000

Hey Catherine, as i said, I am glad you are doing better, it is a pleasure to see you around.

Google’s AdSense team is not actually penalizing publishers with the new clickable zone, they are trying to simply fight accidental clicks by reducing the clickable zone of the ad. This change tho has had impact on revenue of many publishers for an “unknown reason” to me.

By: CatherineL

CatherineL — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:20:28 +0000

Astrit – as you know I was ill for a good few weeks so I didn’t even hear about the adsense clickable zone.

I’ve checked and revenue is down.

Why are Google doing this. I know it is a pain when you click one adsense ad, then you are taken to a site with a heap more adsense ads etc – all owned by one company. But, why should those of us who just have well blended ads and don’t trick people to click be penalised?

By: Making The Money

Making The Money — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:37:31 +0000

My biggest problem was with Adsense blocks where the text (title, description, url) was all the same colour. I’m still going through hundreds of pages and changes any ads that appear like that

Yeah I remember when I was delighted to see $5 a day with Adsense!

By: SEO Optimization

SEO Optimization — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:24:34 +0000

Hi php ebook (damn forgot your name again). no doubt that Google is protecting their business, and I have nothing against that. As i said, I do believe it is fair that they do this, adwords advertisers do track their campaigns and if they see a good conversion from clicked ads on your site, they are most likely to bid higher to get their ads displayed in your site, which than will increase your earnings. What I am trying to figure out is, what do people think about this and how do people that are not found with ads interact and click them, which is a curious thing.

Paul, apparently more people claim drop in CTR, I have drop in CTR in a certain site only, while the others are doing just good. Even tho, thinking about $4-5 a day is not a small loss for a newbie or someone from a third country, it is a net of $150 month.

From your statement, with adsense, blending your ads even with the new clickable area is what performs best. which is so true. I haven’t monitored the colors like you have done (as you reported in your post) but I have seen increase in all sites where I have blended ads (apart on some, which perform better with outstanding ads).

Thanks to both for your words, hope to hear more about what people think on this.

By: Making The Money

Making The Money — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:49:16 +0000

In all honesty I’ve seen a tiny reduction overall of CTR which has related to about $4-$5 a day down so not worth worrying about. The biggest thing I found was to go back and re-visit your Adsense colours and make sure a link looks like a link

By: PHP eBook

PHP eBook — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:41:09 +0000

Google is just protecting their business like anyone else would. There are some people doing some shady things with AdSense, “tricking” people into clicking the ads, and you know that isn’t translating into anything for the advertisers. Google has to protect their business and if that means upsetting a few bloggers, they’ll be fine with that.