Ads by Goooooooooooogle

Yes, that is what appeared alongside my ads

[GrantNZ]

Ads by Goooooooooooogle

Anyone spotted the above with their ads? Kinda strange I think.

[jim_w]

My vote, for what it is worth, is it really makes our site look unprofessional.

[Jenstar]

I've been seeing some of the "Ads by Goooooogle" replaced by the "Feedback - Ads by Google" link. I much prefer the ooooooo to the feedback. People notice the ooooooo's, then click on the ads. But I would bet that the CTR on the feedback link is several times higher when compared to either the "Ads by Google" or "Ads by Gooooooogle"

[jim_w]

In theory, I would guess that they are running experiments, and hopefully keeping data, on increasing their revenue for adsense. Which, if successful, would mean increased revenue for publishers. Because they are seeing a much bigger sample than our individual web sites, as far as any of us know, the o’s may have increased their revenues a lot over the entire population of all the publisher’s pages combined.

If the above is correct, I hope they are _not_ doing to increase their revenues while decreasing the revenues of publishers. I doubt they are, but who knows.

I remember reading that MS hired psychologist to aid in designing the Windows interface’s default colors. Perhaps (G) is also doing something similar and testing the theories. I have seen Motorola also do stuff like that. Big companies can do some pretty strange and costly things to increse profits or market shares based on long term forcasts.

[Visi]

Actually we are seeing the old Ads by Google on some of our pages now, some still the Ads by Goooooogle type.

[walrus]

<This "oooooooooooo" really stinks, sucks, bites, blows >
Well in retrospect it kinda bites a bit but...
Im not crazy about the oooooooooos either , my point was why insult the Google people that created the idea.
If people don't like things they could just be a little more considerate of others, we've all had brainstorms that have turned out to be duds.
I,m 100 % certain the long Gooooooogle have caused a lower CTR because page views remain same and ctr has gone down ever since.So im no happy with it at all ,
I'm just hoping it ends soon.People trusted google results, expecting them to assume its the real Google is a bit of a stretch I think, most people are to negative, they will assume the worst, that its a cheap imitation , just look at the reaction of experienced webmasters thinking they had spyware, imagine wht the inexperienced public thinks.

Walrus

[walrus]

Well I just wanted to amend my post. I,ve read a lot about Adsense on WW and apparently there are many reasons for the wild dynamics in Adsense as many a member have suggested.
So about the new branding thing, people seem to have gotten used to it.Doesnt look as good as Google but I'm sure I was wrong about the general publics reaction, cause my ctr seems fine again.EPC down sharply since August but from what i read that could very well be normal.
Apparently Adsense is still the most generous of the affiliate programs.

[cabowabo]

We've seen an overall 1.2% clickthrough rate increase since "ooooooo" was added. While the aesthetics aren't great - the extra cash is welcomed.

Cheers,

CaboWabo