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But have no idea what exactly is this program?
Well, to start with, would I earn more?
For example, naming a channel, how can one name a baby that they know no gender of? In my case I have no idea what I will be naming
and what to enter into the description and etc. The whole channel ad placement issue lacks more thorough instructions.
P.S. I wonder why my text becomes messed up in above lines like that...?
Geoff anyone?
Me too, was it from the same "guy"?
Geoff anyone?
Yep, same person.
I do have site targeting turned off - maybe that's why.
And those still doing the once-unfashionable sizes will now be in demand. :)
It's be good to hear fro a few advertisers.
Do they prefer 300x250? Why?
I'm to confused on how to create those "custom channels" and whether I should create channels first or should I redesign my site first and place those 300x250 banners above the fold and take a risk.For example, naming a channel, how can one name a baby that they know no gender of? In my case I have no idea what I will be naming and what to enter into the description and etc.
For example, you could make a channel called "promo" and use it for just this new ad; then you could separate out the clicks (and income) related to it.
By making other channels, you could compare different sites, positions, pages and ad sizes, shapes and formats (text vs. image). It's quite useful.
But you need to create the channel before you post the code, as the code contains channel-specific stuff. Try it - you've nowt to lose!
My suspicions are the following:
1) It is a genuine email from adsense. But rather hastily put together, hence no logo, no usual font, no usual styling.
2) It is a blanket email, but it's supposed to look like a personal email - in order to elicit a better response. Unfortunately they fluffed it by writing "Dear Publisher" at the beginning instead of doing a mail-merge.
3) The reference to advertiser packages may be genuine, but I strongly suspect that the background agenda behind getting more webmastes to deploy more medium rectangles above the fold is to create a publisher-network-landscape appropriate for rolling out Google AdSense Video Advertising.
4) Someone at the plex suddenly realised that there wasn't nearly enough appropriate advertising estate across the publisher network for video ads - which they are going to need very soon - and so told Geoff Vitt to get on the case as quickly as possible.
The result: a bit of a rushed-looking blanket email.
Me too, was it from the same "guy"?Geoff anyone?
Geoff Vitt
AdSense Support
Just curious if there is anyone here who did NOT receive this email. Did they review everyones' sites by hand?
I did not receive one, but my son did. My site earns probably 3-8X as much as his. He is also opted-out of site targeting, so if these are CPM ads they blanketed publishers without checking their status.
I use an email address that is unique for my AdSense account, and that's the address to which this email was sent.
I would like to have video ads on my site. They are the only ads that ever gather my attention.
The result: a bit of a rushed-looking blanket email.
I'm kind of pleased to know that it was just a blanket mail and they probably hadn't really reviewed my site at all! Having said that I'm still not interested.
I can put a 99% confidence level on this email as being legit.
I am now beginning to doubt that this is legitimate. It was sent to an e-mail address that I haven't used in two years and not to the address in my account.
Something smells fishy!
We only run a couple of very small ad units on the site which haven't made enough money to send us a check. They did assign a manager to our account and they did graphic mock ups of some pages on our site which would generate good/better revenue.
My question is why all the analysis about Google motives? Just give it a try on some pages and see. i have done and will change back if it doesn't work. What's the loss in trying?
I do have site targeting turned off - maybe that's why.
No, because publishers who run site-targeted ads also received the e-mail.
I think the real reason for the "Custom Placement Packs" is simple and obvious: to attract more advertisers and their money to the content network.
I did like the new channel customization that was mentioned in the email. This has the potential of being a great new feature.
Before long every page on every site the poor old visitor will see nothing unless they scroll down and me as a visitor hits the back button when the page I go to has only adds when I first look at it and have to scroll down to see the information I went to the site for
I am interested in the new channel feature though for a single small block add with advertiseres being able to target that space
but if it means i will have to allow all site targetting for this feature it will be a no no as the biggest problem I have found is site targetting can sometimes mean adds that are not suitable for a page being displayed
steve
My site does great with the 336x280... But if what they said is true about there being more advertisers for the 300x250, might be worth a shot.
Of course now that we are all switching, there will be an abundance of publishing space with this format now...;-)
- a tiered or otherwise segmented network;
- (possibly) video or other rich-media ads.
Even if you choose not to take advantage of it, it's a positive sign, because it shows that Google is aware of the need to offer something beyond the AdSense 1.x "advertiser take potluck" content network.
It'll be interesting to see the reaction on the AdWords forum once the Custom Placement Packs are widely available.
Not sure if to blame this change, I'll wait till the end of the day.
