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2) 468px x 120px/190px (or similar) - basically banner width ads but rectangle height. I hate flowing text around a large rectangle in the 'heatmap' top position. Let's have a wide ad that has the height of the top performing rectangle units! Then we can do TITLE, ADS, CONTENT layouts neatly.
I've created this with two rectangle units side-by-side but the double 'ads by goooogle', 'advertise on this site', and border messes it up.
3) Single Adlink units - like the vertically stacked adlink units in width but with only one ad. Google tag below, for easy integration into 'related link' stacks.
otherwise i cant implement my nice valentine background..
Adsense was step 1, Adstyle is step 2
So maybe 600x60
The navigation block is 300 pixel, but
300x250 is very large here.
300x200 or so
Internet Advertising Bureau's IMU formats
I'd not mind that if Google were advertising with one advertiser per unit. Google is subdividing one unit into many sub-units and that makes the IMB's formats less applicable.
It would also be a significant advantage for Google to make non-standard and flexible sizes available. You'd not switch to another ad-program so readily if it meant changing your design as the new guy doesn't offer 500px wide!
It worked extremely well and I never found the need for anything else...perhaps I'm too easy-going?
perhaps I'm too easy-going?
or perhaps you just know what you are doing ;)
EFV is right in keeping the ad sizes to the Internet Advertising Bureau's standard, if google offered another 50 ad block sizes someone somewhere would want another size just to suit their layout
surely you have all heard of the term kiss
surely you have all heard of the term kiss
I never knew there was any other way until I saw all the complications some created for themselves!
That would eliminate the "one size fits all" problem.
It seems to me the most flexible would be to let you determine your own sizes.
Sure, and while they're at it, Google should allow scrapers and other opportunists to determine how many ads are in each ad unit. I wonder how long it would take for the 1280 x 1024 ad unit to dominate the Web? :-)
I wonder how long it would take for the 1280 x 1024 ad unit to dominate the Web?
Hehehehe, way to go EFV:-))
Why not just stick to the Internet Advertising Bureau's IMU formats? That's good enough for me.
My main complaint is that they basically have only TWO horizontal banner sizes. The 468x60 size is frankly cramped and ugly and doesn't show the URL, but the next size up is 728 pixels, which is too wide for my page layout. I'd like to see a leaderboard that simply shows 3 ads instead of 4.
There's no valid reason for sticking to a small palette of ad sizes.
Maybe Google just wants to avoid making it even easier for scrapers and other get-rich-quick types to disguise AdSense ads as "content."
(Note that I'm talking about single-row/column ads, same as Google use everywhere now. Not some kind of 640x480 setup.)
I think "Flexiads" would be a great idea publisher. Although you have to be careful folks don't create ads big enough to have their own postcode :)
Surely with sensible limitations this idea could be a winner?
change the fonts to match
Would it be ever-so-hard for Google not to specify a font and allow adsense to follow whatever you've set the rest of BODY to?
