I was just on my competitor site, who ranks number one for almost everything. I was informed on here that those affected by Google Fred were spammy sites with too many ads...which I was pretty offended by, but that's beside the point. I wanted to see if my competitor who Google loves has more ads than me (turns out that yes, they do have more), when I noticed something. As I scrolled down the page, once I got past the ads and other stuff in their right-hand column, one ad stayed put. I like that feature, it would be handy because a lot of my articles are very long, and I have a big column of white space further down the page. I can't fill it with more because some of my articles are shorter.
I don't know if this is Google Adsense, when I hover over the url it appears to be. Has anybody seen or heard of static Google ads? I'd love to be able to implement that on my site.