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What's with this new adsense format?

it's like Link Units with descriptions...

         

shortbus1662

3:34 pm on Jun 3, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I took a marketing job so my sites have pretty much become secondary activities for me. I hadn't checked my main site in a few days but I noticed my earnings and more specifically CTR had gone way down so I went to the site and checked.

Instead of the leaderboard ads, I have three vertical ads. The link followed by the description. They are stacked up one on top of the other.

And they are no longer targeted nearly as specific to the content of the page but rather the industry in general leaning heavily toward one section of the niche.

I haven't changed anything, and I didn't read here about any format changes, so what's the deal? Can I get it back to the way it was or is this the way it's going to be going forward?

This new ad format is killing me.

OldIrish

11:48 am on Jun 10, 2010 (gmt 0)



I'm experiencing the same odd ad display issue for 728x90 units, and my earnings have been completely decimated by it. The change seems to have started yesterday for me.

Does anyone know what the status of this 728x90 ad unit change is? There doesn't seem to be an option to change it back to the old display setting, unless I've overlooked it.

I'm really starting to panic over this change, as it's affecting me so severely.

netmeg

2:48 pm on Jun 10, 2010 (gmt 0)

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It's probably yet another Google test. I don't know of any way to opt out. AdSense is what it is.