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The 120x600 vertical skyscraper is too long to fit on my pages. 120x240 is perfect.
But it is randomly display 1 ad (in the middle of the space) instead of 2. This is a problem only b/c I designed my site so these ads blend in, and it's hard to blend them in to my nav-bar when it changes from 1 to 2 ads.
120x600 wont do that, but again, that's too big, and 120x240 looks awkward on my site showing one ad.
What to do? add a button? I really dont want to do that.
That will insure you have 2 ads.
The Algo is hoping that it can attract a click better with just one ad instead of 2.
2 125x125 ads with no space in between.
125x125 is too wide for my sidebar.
That will insure you have 2 ads.
Not necessarily. Depending on the niche and the page topic, a second ad might not display at all.
My biggest gripe about this one-ad-in-a-two-ad-slot scheme is the vertical centering of the single ad. That does not blend in with my site design at all. I wish there were an option to make the single ad flush top, leaving empty space in the bottom half of the 120x240 ad space.
I've experimented with having multiple blocks next to each other in order to solve a different problem, but the multiple "Ads by Google" lines was a dealbreaker.
On some pages, I place a 120x240 vertical banner in the left sidebar, just below my site navigation. In the right sidebar, I have various affiliate ads, which all line up vertically, with no extraneous space in between.
So, with my site design, it just looks stupid to have a single Adsense ad floating somewhere in the left sidebar below my site menu. I want the single ad to rise to the top of the 120x240 ad space, with just emptiness following.
And, no, I am not about to redo my hard-won site design just to accommodate this 120x240 ad quirkiness.
[edited by: jomaxx at 7:03 pm (utc) on Sep. 5, 2006]
berto, I assume you the same person as Hubie? (Huberto, maybe?) Otherwise I'm not sure why you're responding as if you're the OP.
No, two different people.
The OP and I both agree that a single ad in a 120x240 two-ad space looks awkward.
In my case, it wouldn't look awkward at all if the single ad displayed at the top of the 120x240 space, not vertically centered in the middle.
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Netmeg - you would be obsessed too if you saw how poorly my 120x240 is performing! I usually have a 1/3 to 2/3 at worst (50/50 split at best) with leaderboard getting the bulk of the hits vs. the 125x240.
Since my latest change...Leaderboard is getting 95% of the clicks (120x240 getting about 5%).
If anyone has run into a situation like this, help help help!
Hubie the Adsense Nubie
Just an idea.
argh. the only thing that did do well there was the 120x600, but that's wayyy too long for my page
Thanks for everyone's help...especially NetMeg!
Hubes
125x125 Button - displays "ads by google"
120x90 Link Unit - displays "ads by google" in BOLD font
arrrrrgh
OK so I rearranged my pages and made them longer to fit a 120x600 vertical. WOO HOO! The clicks are coming in.
NetMeg, you are probably right that I'm not testing them long enough. However, I am right in the middle of "busy season" and cant afford to test each idea at least a week at a time. If my ads usually gather clicks daily and CTR is somewhat predictable, and then I test something and after 24-36 hours i'm sitting on zero clicks while my other ads are performing as normal? I was willing to risk it. My site is small enough where I just keep adding new channels for each ad, naming them by date, ad type, and where I put it on my site.
I can always test later during the "unbusy" season. In any event, thank you all who responded to my post, especially netmeg who has been a big help throughout my setting up the account.
Hubes
