Ad Clickable Area

On Google Pages it's the entire 300-250

[Erku]

If you see this google page
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The adsense is clickable in the entire 300-250 size. However, for the publishers that's not the case? How should we understand that?

Does adsense have different clickable area rules for publishers than for google?

[edited by: martinibuster at 1:23 am (utc) on Mar. 25, 2009]
[edit reason] Removed link to ads. [/edit]

[AdSenseAdvisor]

I will look into this for you, but I can't promise I will be able to respond. In the mean time, I'm asking you all not to follow Erku's link and click on the ads just to test this.

I'd appreciate it if everyone could avoid publicly asking people to click on advertisers' links to investigate something like this. I understand that the intentions are good, but every click affects the advertiser (and the advertiser's stats on the Google Content Network).

ASA

[johnnie]

All it takes to spot this is hovering your mouse over the ad. No need to click. An interesting observation indeed.

[greatstart]

I took a look at the source code of that page and saw this:

google_safe = 'high';

What does that mean?

[himalayaswater]

May be they are premium publisher.

[Erku]

Hello Asa,

Thank you very much for looking into it. I did not suggest in any way to click on links. Just hovering over the ad will do it. However, I did not suggest that either.

But hey guys, my earnings are very low this morning. CPM is down CTR is down, despite all things the same.

I just honestly wanted to report an observation.

[AdSenseAdvisor]

Thank you very much for looking into it. I did not suggest in any way to click on links. Just hovering over the ad will do it. However, I did not suggest that either.

I'm sorry if my previous statement came off as an attack. I didn't mean it that way. I was just worried about possible consequences when something like this got posted in such a public place.

Anyway, I did some investigating and we're getting it fixed. So though I was worried about the way you pointed it out, I really appreciate your noticing and calling it to our attention.

No hard feelings?

ASA

[Erku]

Hey ASA,

Thank you for your kind reply. No hard feelings. Our team is one of those teams that benefits from Adsense does everything in our power to guard the integrity of the program so those who are doing good business may preserve the current status quo. This is why I reported to get it fixed. Actually I thought may be Adsense is returning back to entire ad area being clickable.

Anyway, our team tells me that since I reported it yesterday our earnings are sharply down. We hope it goes up again. The team does not say there is a relation, but such a coincidence.

[AdSenseAdvisor]

I can assure you that what you say here has nothing to do with your earnings. I don't know who you are, and even if I did I have no control over your earnings.

I do really appreciate folks like you actively trying to make our network a better place for everyone. :)

ASA

[Erku]

ASA,

Thank you very much for your words. We want Adsense to succeed. Your success is the success of good and honest publishers.