Comments on: AdSense Remove ‘Advertise on this Site’ links from Ad Units

By: Hectril

Hectril — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:58:41 +0000

Thats good news for advertisers. It increases their click ratio and its very simple and effective means of strategy. Adwords could also benefit from this change of Adsense.

By: Justin (pusha)

Justin (pusha) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:48:30 +0000

The less garbage and wasted space the better! I honestly wish the adds looked even more simple and had LESS words but this is step in the right direction.

By: Bhaanu

Bhaanu — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:10:01 +0000

I dont miss the link myself, I dont, I’m not advertizing just as yet.

By: Planet Malaysia

Planet Malaysia — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:44:53 +0000

I strongly agreed with Google changed.

By: Luq

Luq — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:42:59 +0000

i guess the purpose of the ‘ads by google’ is to make viewers trust the ads.. if its from google it’s supposed to be legit ‘good’ ads.

By: Mixan

Mixan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:36:06 +0000

Sometime there’s a website which only contain an ads, the only thing i saw which belong to the website is only the title..what the hack they trying to do there… :)

http://melodyindah.blogspot.com/

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:38:57 +0000

I love having the ablilty to remove the advertise on this site part of the ad. I do have to agree with Live Crunch or the ability to remove the “Ads by Google” part.

By: nabin

nabin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:58:53 +0000

Yes!
Sometimes I feel like Ads by google should also be removed. They are more highlighted than the content!

By: Live Crunch

Live Crunch — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:13:49 +0000

They should remove that “Ads by Google” part too I hate it.

I mean from business prospective you could really do good blending on adsense ads, and you would make more money with it. But with an ad like “ads by google” its just irritating me .

Darren,
Was this post paid by google? JK!!!

By: 66tx

66tx — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:03:52 +0000

This is one move that I doubt will annoy many people

By: simon

simon — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:35:11 +0000

I never use “Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up” :P

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:07:30 +0000

Thank god. I wasn’t even aware that we could de-activate it, but I wish I did. I ended up almost removing AdSense entirely from my blog because Circuit City did this on my site making almost every ad ever shown on the site a totally irrelevant Circuit City ad that performed like crap.

Like Neerav, I have moved to direct sales of advertising and have done much better.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:56:41 +0000

It doesn’t surprise me that it performs poorly. If I recall correctly, didn’t it always refer just to the original site that had been used to sign up for AdSense with, or did they fix that? I seem to remember reading that some time back.

This is one move that I doubt will annoy many people.

By: Neerav

Neerav — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:41:22 +0000

I disabled that “Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up” in my ad units long ago

I figured that if someone wanted to advertise specifically on my site I’d much rather they approached me directly so I could get 100% of the money and not have to share the extra revenue with Google

I was correct :-) Since then my direct ad income has broken 5 figures just by itself ignoring Adsense and other blog income