Horizonal Ad Links

Is It Possible? Will it Ever be?

[MediaSpree]

I think it would be nice to have the option of horizonal ad links, prehaps make the font a little bigger. Then directly below your header space you could place the adlinks much like the look of the forum "bread crumbs" at the top of the page here. Come on google, give me my horizonal adlinks!

[Atticus]

I'll second that.

I would be happy with a banner around 600 x 60, which would sit comfortably along the top of my page with enough room for the nav bar on one side, all fitting nicely across a 800 x 600 screen.

The 720 doesn't leave enough space for the nav bar and the 468 is to small to fill such a slot.

[TheDonster]

I'll 3rd that! Would like to see more size options (especially horizontal) for AdLinks as the current choices seem limited. I guess they're still in the testing phases. Hope they stick around, though I suspect they're not doing well on all sites.

[bts111]

Me too!

I am sure that they will be rolled out once Google work out the response of the current sizes.

As they say, good things come to those who wait :P

[jomaxx]

This is going to sound frivolous, but how about a Javascript that will detect the available height and width ("innerheight" and "innerwidth", IIRC) as well as a webmaster-defined parameter indicating how much horizontal screen space is taken up with a navbar or whatever?

Then Google could serve an ad block that would use up the available horizontal space without causing side-scrolling. 640x480 might see only one ad; a screen my size might see 4, or even 5 or 6.

I do this sort of thing in a couple of places of my own site, and IMO it works great. It just seems silly and unnecessary that even the current leaderboard, which is the only horizontal block that looks halfway decent, causes side-scrolling at 640x480 no matter what the site design.

[OCSupertones]

I would like to see more adlinks sizes as well

Jomaxx, I don't think it would be used often. I know I wouldn't use that at all. I don't know how many webmasters would.

[jomaxx]

Neither do I, although if more webmasters checked out how their sites look at 640x480 or even 800x600, there might be some demand for it.

Anyway I don't expect Google to ever offer this kind of thing, but IMO it's a much better implementation than any horizontal unit they currently offer.

[ronin]

AdSonar has a great adpanel design interface which allows you to choose any of the standard IAB formats or else define your own dimensions and then divide your custom adpanel into as many rows and columns you want.

AdSense would do well to take a leaf out of AdSonar's book.

[MediaSpree]

This is probably against the TOS but what if I made horizonal links of topics that a visitor to my website would be interested in and when they clicked on them I had a javascript that triggerd the google search box on my page with that word as the query...I think it'd be a money maker for both me and google but I'm pretty sure its against the TOS. :)

[MikeNoLastName]

My first comment to this forum and direct to Adsense support on the very first day the ad links came out was for a "single-text-line" version about 600 x 10 or so, like:

Related Topics: abc, fgh, mno, rst, xyz

Still waiting...