Comments on: AdSense Testing New ‘Slider’ Ads

By: Artur Kim

Artur Kim — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:45:21 +0000

I wonder how much these two tiny arrows will help.

By: trmanco

trmanco — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:32:50 +0000

I don’t really think this is going to be a good idea…

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:03:59 +0000

Damm, I saw these on FanFooty site and just thought I must of missed this news. Could have had the scoop on this!
Molly

By: Shafiq Rehman

Shafiq Rehman — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:17:21 +0000

I just noticed these two arrows appearing randomly on my blog and hoping that this new feature will add more $$$ to publishers.

By: Dan @ goforAds

Dan @ goforAds — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:18:08 +0000

I too noticed it. Its good it must increase the earnings for publishers. :)

By: Collin LaHay

Collin LaHay — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:34:54 +0000

Thanks for the citation. =)

As for my opinion, I don’t think visitors will purposely scroll through ads to find something they like… but only time shall tell.

By: plonkee

plonkee — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:17:06 +0000

I can see this working well on product type ads – like the cameras above, but less well on say financial services ads. One loan company text ad is much like another – the people wanting to see more are probably just a small subset of the people that will click on the ads.

By: The Opinionated Blogger

The Opinionated Blogger — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:16:19 +0000

It is just another attempt by Google to make their money and not share it with the publishers. Google is truly a buly of the internet.

By: Dean Taplin

Dean Taplin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:22:29 +0000

I’ve had the Show More ads feature appear on my site a few times this month. I have my doubts though about whether anyone would actually notice them let alone click on them.

By: Cindy S

Cindy S — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:20:12 +0000

In messing around with my adsense ads on Blogger, I seem to have jiggled something and now my ads are just a search box that says Search for Google Ads on_________________

It’s supposed to be a text link box and I can’t get it to go back.

http://achingdebts.blogspot.com

Suggestions? I have tried tweaking it but can’t seem to get it to change back.

By: coolthought

coolthought — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:54:48 +0000

I agree with CompuWorld. If report on how these different ads from adsense are doing, we can be better informed of making a better choice for the type of ad for the blog. Of we should still continue our “old” way of monitoring to opitimise the ad.

It is interesting though to see that Adsense is continuously finding small incremental ways to improve on its ads.

By: UltraRob

UltraRob — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:03:36 +0000

A lot of people ignore ads. It seems the ones that don’t aren’t less tech savy so I wonder how many people will use the slider. I don’t know how we’ll know though. I guess if Google keeps the slider they are finding it works and if they go away it didn’t.

By: Fake Rake

Fake Rake — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:36:01 +0000

I saw this briefly on a 160×600 ad unit on one of my sites, where the arrows didn’t look as ugly as the ones in the sample above. I was actually nervous about clicking on them because of the “don’t click on your ads” commandment, but eventually gave in and scrolled through a few of them.

Now when I check the same page again, the arrows are gone (and it wasn’t replaced by a “show more ads” link, it’s just back to normal.)

By: DansNetwork

DansNetwork — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:01:13 +0000

Just saw them for the first time today on my site and then read this post. Wasn’t too sure about clicking on them though!

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:51:23 +0000

Ok,

Thank you Darren for the update. But I haven’t seen them or been reported seeing them at my blog.

Cheers.

By: Deb - Mom of 3 Girls

Deb - Mom of 3 Girls — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:55:16 +0000

That’s interesting, I haven’t seen any yet but will have to keep an eye out.

By: Sly from Slyvisions.com

Sly from Slyvisions.com — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:37:27 +0000

Those things actually look pretty nice. In my opinion, they should actually increase “real” clicks on the ads, which benefit both Google and the publisher.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:34:28 +0000

I saw the new slider ads on my blog, The Fun Times Guide to Living Green, but to be honest, wasn’t even intrigued enough to simply mouseover the new icon…ha.

By: BW

BW — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:11:30 +0000

They have not made it to my sites, so I’m off to check them out elsewhere.

Not sure how often users will click to see more adds though.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:26:02 +0000

I don’t have any problem with the arrows on the ad but I don’t really think that it will help make anyone any money, except maybe Google. The people who are clicking on the arrows most likely would have clicked on an ad even if the arrows aren’t there, but the only thing that this helps is Google.

I highly doubt that any websites will see any jump in revenue from adsense because of this but undoubtedly Google will.