Wow, awesome G, one of my biggest sites is officially an AdSense dead zone, the last 7 days has seen an incredible 0.001% CTR.

Jan 1.38%
Feb 1.63%
March 1.55%
April 1.59%
May 1.19%
Until 12th June 1.31%
Now, I repeat, 0.001%

That's fubard baby!

Had an interesting experience with AdSense today. I was just about to leave for my sister in law's funeral, and I got a warning notice for "mislabeling" on a page on my site. Had no idea what they were talking about - all my ads, AdSense or others, are clearly marked "Sponsored" above the ad unit. So I fired off a quick note to support. Came back to find the answer - apparently labeling ads as "Sponsored" isn't good enough. I have to label them as "Sponsored Links" I was assured once I did that, I would be in compliance.

Leaving aside the fact that I think that's one of the silliest, most petty reasons to issue a warning that I have thus far encountered - if you are labeling your ads as *anything* other than "Advertisements" or "Sponsored Links", you better change the label. Even "Ads" won't cut it, apparently. #smh

Does that mean all Adsense ads need to be labelled with "Advertisements" or "Sponsored Links"? Or is it OK to leave Adsense to label within the ad as they think fit?

I never label any Adsense ads at all.

It is fine not to label at all, but if you do label it is as Netmeg says.

"Advertisements" or "Sponsored Links"

I've been doing this for 13 years and have never labeled any ad. I've never heard a peep about it, not even when being in a room with an Adsense guy who was reviewing my site.

Right, if you don't label, don't worry about it. But if you *do* label, you better come correct.

I guess they're worried "Sponsored" could be misinterpreted as sponsored content rather than ads. How you could misinterpret "Ads", I don't know.

Ten days to go to the end of the month and £14 ($20) required to make the minimum! I doubt I'll make it if the last few days are anything to go by therefore it looks like AdSense cannot be removed until July, oh well.

I have never labeled ads on my site. I have never heard a word about it. So I'll keep on doing what I've been doing.

It should be noted...adding label or not does not improve the CTR nor CPC, based on my personal tests - nor is removing it. It has not made any differences among my sites.

So anyone who's thinking about adding or removing labels should most likely don't. It is a waste of time.

Ps. It is still much easier to leave it unlabeled. The rules on labeling changes or has changed over the years...maybe once every 5~10 year or so. A big ad network can come into life and pretty much coin the "new term" which propels adsense to change the labeling wording to avoid conflict, or the upstairs management simply has a change of heart. Labeling in my opinion is unnecessary and wasted time on our end and valuable viewport real estate space.

My Nessie arrows are always a very dark grey and look very unappealing. However, I just put some 300 x 250 ad units within the first paragraph of text on my articles today and they are back to a bluish colour and look much better. Not sure why this has happened.

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PIP.

@Ironside: More paragraphs please.

@Rob, sorry, what you mean by more paragraphs please

More paragraphs will make the article easier to read and easier on the eyes.

Unless you are trying to make visitors click on the ads rather than read a wall of text. :)

Good thing we don't do site reviews here.

:)

Sorry, I only took a small portion for the screenshot of the page. Basically just to show where I had put the 300 x 250 ad unit. The Nessie arrows now very much follow the same design as my navigation which makes the unit look more more enticing in my opinion.

If I remember rightly, it used to be the case that if you custom-designed your AdSense unit with your own colours the Nessie arrows were the colours you wanted. Then it all changed a few months ago. I don't know whether it's got something to do with your design, or where you put the units as to whether the colours show properly.

And I hope this post isn't interpreted as a review request. I was merely wondering if anybody else's arrows were the same colour, or had stayed a dark grey.

I was always under the impression that the arrows were the same color as the Title color. I guess I was mistaken. It seems to have worked that way on my site.

From what I can remember, the Nessie arrows always used to follow the same hex colour as your main title link.. It doesn't seem to be the case nowadays, most of my recent ads are showing dark grey Nessie arrows which occasionally change colour throughout the day. However, it's only until yesterday when I put these ads back in place that I actually saw the nice blue colour that matched my links come back again.

I seem to be getting more money from page level ads now. Hopefully Google will develop these even more and those of us who seem to get most of our traffic from mobile will benefit.

I seem to be getting more money from page level ads now.

Anchor ads or vignette ads?

My CTR on the vignette ads is three to four times the CTR on the standard ads, and about 3/4ths of the EPC. I had a short glitch where they weren't working, which I reported to support - they said they couldn't find the problem but they mysteriously started working again and have been fine ever since.

I decided not to use the anchor ads. If there were a way to enable them on just one or two sites so I could test, I would do that, but from what I can tell, it's all or nothing.

@Editorial guy, remind me again how you determine which are anchor ads and which are vignette ads?

Hey, what's going on? Not a single post in the Adsense forum for two days! This is unheard of.

My earnings today are about 50% down from expected. It's page views alone that are the factor, everything else is normal. Maybe a result of the EU referendum here in the UK. Hope so.

Hey Nomis5, my sites (UK) have been quiet today especially this morning but are back to normal traffic levels now. Must be the referendum.

Is it just me, or is Adsense terribly slow to display today.

Gentlemen, can anybody comment on disconnecting Google analytics and improved Adsense earnings.

I am re-reading leaked document by former G. because it is beyond ridiculous now. And it clearly states that analytics is statistically inaccurate and displays less info, and that Adsense earnings are "adjusted" down from analytics data.

So has anyone tried removing analytics and see if Adsense earnings go up?

And ladies Smilie, it's not a men only forum.

I am re-reading leaked document by former G. because it is beyond ridiculous now. And it clearly states that analytics is statistically inaccurate and displays less info, and that Adsense earnings are "adjusted" down from analytics data.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

Just published a new page and on checking that page I am seeing Adsense adverts in German (site is UK informational). This is doubly insulting because madness has gripped the UK and we are now out of the EU. Someone, please inform Adsense.

Which brings up another subject - money. For those in the UK, given the complexity of Google accounting, what will happen when we exit the EU for real? Ireland is in the EU, the UK won't be, will there be any implications tax and VAT-wise? Any explanation that can persuade my partner we need to move to Spain for tax reasons will be greatly received, however implausible.

I am seeing some great earnings from AdSense this month, but this always happens as each quarter winds down. However, my June AdSense earnings this year will surpass last year's by about 5%. The best part is that I've recently implemented a header bidding partner and my overall earnings will be up a whopping 30%. Happy!

Yesterday saw my second lowest-ever AdSense PVs and only beaten by 25th December 2015.

Actual earnings were my fourth lowest-ever, it's going to be nip and tuck whether I make the minimum this month. I hope I do then I can remove AdSense completely on Thursday night.