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.

[oaktown]

I've seen traffic skyrocket but CTR cut in half. Please, let's end the test. Less "0"s, more "$"s! I really think people don't trust "Ads by Goooooooooooogle".

[jenkers]

my ctr is down approx 50% since the ads by Gooooogle started. I've made no changes that have been picked up since he beginning of this month so can only assume (bad thing to do I know) that the sudden drop is due to this - seems strange that this should happen but it seems to fit.

If any google employees are reading this - I am definitely not impressed. How many other people have noticed a drop in CTR since this change?

[croky]

I haven't really gotten a lower click through. It only went higher the last 2 days.

[caspita]

Ok, in the email that I got about the new changes GG asked for my feedback about this 'new branding' idea :-S .. so I tolde them I don't like it.

Here is part of the answer to my feed back:

Google ads with an 'Ads by Goooooogle' label will appear on a limited number of pages, and you may or may not see them on your site.

Well as for far I can see now 'everybody' is getting them .. and I DO see it ALL the time in my site.

Please note that it is not possible for us to control which pages or sites will display the 'Ads by Goooooogle' branding

Ok, you can control the Ads, the clicks, kick me out with no reason, the money, the smart pricing, opt me in for Ads on search pages, etc, etc, etc ... but you can not control the *&*^#$ branding? You HAVE to be kidding me GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGLE

[roxah]

My click through rate when higher, i like it, it catches the eye :)

[Hugene]

seems to be all over the web now, maybe they decided to make a permanent switch

[goooogle]

next time you will see yahoooooooooooo, aoooooooooool, hoooooootboooooooot, lycooooooooooos and many more. I think they are just abusing the "O" because it is free just like what they are doing with our publishers.

[lexipixel]

I know it was briefly mentioned in other posts about G's new TOS, but the "ooooooooooo" thing is really bugging me.

Three reasons:

#1 - (and most importantly to me), the long string of O's gives a childish appearance. I have ads on some sites that the "funky" feel of G is o.k., but on others (a Legal site and a Real Estate site), it looks just plain childish.

#2 - the 'ooooooooooo' draws the eye to that link excessivly, and since there is nothing in it for the site owner (me), I don't want visitors eye drawn there... the "branding" should be as invivible as possible.

#3 - Why should I deliver customers to G (either publishers of advertisers) when, again, there is nothing in it for me.

On a side note -- I've cut my ads from a (4) ad "skyscraper" to a 240x120 (2) ad block.. and will be phasing out G more quickly if the quality of the service continues to drop.

:(

[kodaks]

Very unprofessional, I'm sure Goooooooooooogle will lose quite a lot of business if they keep this going.
-koooooooooooodaks

[CalArch90]

It may draw attention to the ads for a while, but soon people will become used to it and it will achieve nothing. To me it looks like someone fell asleep on the keyboard when I see it.

The Gooooooogle thing was a clever idea for search, there is a reason for it from a design standpoint since you can click on each letter to go to a new page, but seems out of place on the adsense ads.

Nothing wrong with trying out new approaches to marketing, and Google has certainly come up with some highly innovative ideas in the past, but this one really makes no sense to me.