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125x125 showing adlinks

what's with this?

         

maxgoldie

4:21 pm on Jan 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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A 125x125 adblock started showing adlinks on one of my sites. It has 6 ad links in it.

Anyone else seen this? It appears to be coming on the heels of the large square format changes...

annej

5:01 am on Jan 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Oh lordy, What next. I've been spending days switching my article pages with rectangular units to skyscraper units. Now I suppose they will mess up the skyscrapers.

Scurramunga

7:05 am on Jan 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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have you recently made any changes to that particular ad block?

maxgoldie

1:50 pm on Jan 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I never made any changes to that adblock at all. It started to show bloody stupid adlinks last week.

AdSenseAdvisor

7:26 pm on Jan 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Hi maxgoldie -

It sounds like you were seeing a beta test we've been running, which displays link units within a 125 x 125 ad unit. This test is only running on a limited number of sites, so most publishers probably won't see it.

Let me know if you have any feedback, btw!

-ASA

ken_b

7:47 pm on Jan 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Hi maxgoldie -

It sounds like you were seeing a beta test we've been running, which displays link units within a 125 x 125 ad unit. This test is only running on a limited number of sites, so most publishers probably won't see it.

Let me know if you have any feedback, btw!

-ASA

What?

Does this mean that if we run Adlinks we could end up with Adlinks showing up in two places on a page if we also use a 125x125 regular ad block?

maxgoldie

9:41 pm on Jan 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Thanks ASA!

This is actually a good looking adblock -- it gives the visitor a lot of choices in a relatively small space. It shows up intermittently however.

I cant give you more feedback than that, as I can't set up a channel for it. But I like the look of it overall, it seems efficient.

Freedom

9:50 pm on Jan 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Oh lordy, What next. I've been spending days switching my article pages with rectangular units to skyscraper units. Now I suppose they will mess up the skyscrapers.

Ditto.

NoLimits

9:58 pm on Jan 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I'd like clarification on the "dual" adlinks question as well. I feel it would look spammy (on my site)

ASA - Perhaps a heads up of upcoming beta tests is in order. I believe that an overwhelming majority of us take great offense to our pages being manipulated greatly without notice.

Testing is great, but not when it's at my expense.

AdSenseAdvisor

7:19 am on Jan 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

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As long as you adhere to AdSense policies and only place 1 link unit per page, you'll be fine even if you see another link unit served in a regular ad block.

Hope that clarifies!

-ASA

svpwizard

9:20 am on Jan 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

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1 unit?

TOS says 3 dosn't it?

ken_b

1:43 pm on Jan 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

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svpwizard; 1 "link unit" (which is just another term for Adlinks) and 3 regular ad blocks are allowed.

Chris_H

4:34 pm on Jan 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Here we go again.

Why does Google continue to disrupt our pages without our consideration and prior knowledge.

One of our sites had the misfortune of displaying these adlinks in a 125x125 today, resulting in a loss of time and money while I searched around for an answer.

Why does Google insist on guinea-pigging trials and betas on long suffering publishers without asking for permission from a publisher? Wouldn't that be considered the ethical (and polite) thing to do?