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I looked at the source code and it appears the adsense code is in place. the funny thing is there is no google branding. Mousing over does not show the url. The As preview tool does not show that particular ad.
Questions
1. Is anyone else seeing this - You can't miss the ads
2. My guess is I should probably add the advertiser to the filter. Opinions? especially since they are way off target
3. Are these cpm ads? If so am I right in assuming you will get additional pennies for clicks?
4. How do you figure out who to block if you can't see the url?
thanks
cg
A 336 x 280 is now showing one large green image ad for tax software from a well known U.S. income tax preparation service. Looks terrible on the page. The site is not even remotely related to the ad content.
I just slapped a new channel on that spot to monitor and see what happens.
FarmBoy
not matched to content and seems to be high number of pages
possibly G sold this company on running major test
also think they will be using CPM across major portion of adsense publishers
In some ways major pain in the butt but in another if it works for them may bring other major companies in which in the long term will be good for publishers
They are also running major TV campaign so may also check ROI for both forms of media, many on here have said the big players in TV / Newspaper advertising may well come on board this could be the acid test for comparison ROI
steve
It looks like their CPM rate is set a few pennies higher than the site's eCPM for the month. The pay is good, but damn they are annoying and way off topic for most of my sites.
If you don't like them, the easiest way that I've found to get rid of them is to just set the ads to text only. A couple of sites I've set all ads to text only and others I've set it to rotate in blocks that allow images 10% of the time so that my users aren't overloaded with those ugly things.
But the more I think about it, the more likely I am to just block the damn things completely. Animated ads were what lead Google to go with text only ads at the start.
Those ads may be paying better than you think.
Content matching is not the only way to place ads. Everyone in the U.S. has to pay taxes and, therefore, is a prospect for tax preparation service.
Yes, but it is inappropriate to show it 20% of the time on sites with a specific theme?
But my biggest complaint is that it is an animated ad, not an "image".
Those ads may be paying better than you think.
I have a very good idea of how well it is paying, by simply looking at the report for that URL channel. I go look the report and follow the "site" targeting line out to the eCPM column and look at that number. It's actually pretty easy to figure out that it pays slightly better than the regular site eCPM. Sometimes I make decisions based on something other than how much money I'm going to make.
