Fairla - 8:14 am on Mar 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

"Fairla: I would block Fastclick's adsense ads and any contextua; campaigns they are running and ad adsense somewhere else in the page. There is a reason why you have not been optimized out of FC's contextual ads."

Well, my clickthrough rates were seriously abysmal when I first tested AdSense all over my site. Pennies a day, if that. Whereas I'm now making OK money with Fastclick's CPM Adsense ads, so I'm reluctant to drop them without the ability to test regular AdSense again first.

I did notice the Fastclick Google ads matched my content much better than regular AdSense did. These days I don't know if that's still true, since I never see the Fastclick Google ads on my own site now, even though plenty are being served -- my guess is that Europeans are the ones seeing them. Really wish there was a way I could test Adsense again without cutting myself off from the Fastclick earnings... I suppose now with Channels I can try slowly testing on a page-by-page basis.