Comments on: AdSense Ad Click Zones – Gmail and Other Large Sites Get a Better Deal

By: Eco safe clothing

Eco safe clothing — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:57:34 +0000

I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff

By: Secret Cash Plan

Secret Cash Plan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:00:05 +0000

Google seems to have hit its peak and its down turning. Is the next big thing right around the corner?

By: mysapce

mysapce — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:44:47 +0000

Those adsense ads looks so old school!

By: marsh

marsh — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:37:04 +0000

Yes, I read that the larger clickable zones are perks for Premium Publishers of Adsense. They also get more ad units that they can place on their websites, etc.

http://www.pinoymoneytalk.com/2007/12/14/benefits-of-adsense-premium-publisher/

By: Tony Warne

Tony Warne — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:49:46 +0000

I have never found the Adwords greatly effective. CTR is only about 2% and the ROI is not that good. Organic is certainly the best but like we all know, its slow and takes time to get good serps.

Is the clickable area really of that much importance? I know you can analyze and assume and calculate, but when it all boils down, are accidental clicks sufficient enough to be concerned about?

By: James Lee

James Lee — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:31:41 +0000

What’s the gripe about changing the clickable area anyway. Were those against the change relying on accidental clicks or something?

Spend more time working on your sites than chasing around what happening on others and you’ll do ok.

By: esvl

esvl — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:12:38 +0000

Seems like one of these days people will make a living doing Yahoo SEO and totally forget about google

By: Marsadie

Marsadie — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:30:06 +0000

This disgusts me. My CTR has gone down tremendously. Not only that, but I have a tracker that shows what people on my site are clicking…in a period of time this tracker shows that there were 60 clicks on my Adsense ads, whereas Adsense only credited me for 20. Has anyone else noticed a similar discrepancy?

By: MommaDiary.com

MommaDiary.com — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:23:03 +0000

Gawd! I absolutely HATEEE double-standards. Life, people, government … now Google too!

By: The Great seducer

The Great seducer — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:35:25 +0000

Im really beginning to hate google. YahOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

By: Sotek

Sotek — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:00:26 +0000

“it’s the animal farm story: all are equal but some are more equal than others :). Learn to live with it.”

- exactly. There’s not much we can do anyway..

By: Chris T.

Chris T. — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:02:27 +0000

I was just reading this article an i noticed that the adsense ads found in my blog were still fully clickable such as the premium advertisers you mentioned.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:21:24 +0000

This seems really obvious to me. Google reduces area on small publisher ads because the vast amount of fraudulent traffic/clicks come from the small guys. The big guys don’t scheme to defraud Google and its advertisers. They are often public companies, and would never consider such a means to generate revenue.

However, the biggest risk to Google and its advertisers are the small publishers. If we were to see the stats on click fraud, I would guess that 90%+ of fraudulent clicks happen on small sites. Much of this is done by automated bots. Google must have discovered that click fraud (oh, sorry, I mean ‘accidental clicks’) reduces with a reduced clickable ad area.

By: The Opinionated Blogger

The Opinionated Blogger — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:28:44 +0000

Google has done quite a bit of things recently to upset the general public. It is as if they feel they own the web and can do with it whatever they want. Both this and the page rank demotions are really upsetting their main users.

By: Thássius

Thássius — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:41:29 +0000

I noticed it a few days ago, and sincerely I couldn’t believe. Sounds like Google has different rules according to the amount of money a publisher worths. That shouldn’t be true. For me Google is acting like evil.

By: Katy

Katy — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:45:54 +0000

Well, another case of “One rule for them, another for the rest of us”.

The majority of their revenue from Adsense comes from the “Little Guys” – as shown in Darren’s post about Adsense earnings. Annoy them and their whole business model could go down the toilet.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:44:34 +0000

This is a kill for publishers. The money that you can earn is continously shrinking. To compensate google must inceat CPC rates.

- Dan
http://www.goforads.com

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:40:30 +0000

some guy – good clarification and I can understand the logistics and inconvenience of getting publishers to make those changes – however I’m not sure it applies so much with their own service at Gmail….

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:00:10 +0000

Good find Darren !

Again – Google with it’s double talk.

I’m sure they’ll come up with a good explanation in the days to come.

Looking forward to it.

Cheers!
Mani

By: Michael Dunlop

Michael Dunlop — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:39:32 +0000

Typical Google…