Does anyone get frustrated with the constant design changes that google experiment with on their ads?
I use a few 336 block on my site, and like everyone else i experiment with placements, font sizes and colours. But this last week i have been watching google move the URL next to the title (on the same line) with an ugly black underline. And the only way they can get the title and URL to fit on the same line is to reduce the font size. That is quite a major change.
I appreciate that it might work for a lot of people, but surely google realise that it doesnt work for everyone.
Why dont they give US the option to move the URL? they could let us have it at the bottom, under the title, or on the same line. That way WE can experiment and find out what's best. But they dont seem to do that anymore. They just change the layout and foist it on absolutely everyone.
The constant changes also means that its harder to test things yourself, as you can no longer count on everything staying the same. If you want to run a test on an ad for 1 week, it is now highly unlikely that it will continue to use the same font-family and font-size for the whole duration.
i frequently visit my site and see the ads using different font-families for 5 minutes, before returning to normal. What is that all about? Surely google do not need to do their own testing on that, because there must be plenty of sites that aleady use that font through choice.
Is it time for google to leave the experimenting to us? If they want to change the layout then okay, fair enough, but please give US the option of changing it, instead of forcing it on us.
