I sort of know what I am have been building websites for 3-4 years so I though this sounded like a good op ! Anyway to the chase, these arrow are not a good thing google has it’s head up it’s own … From what I have and read the success to click is to blend it in to your site but the arrow totally screw that up.

But I noticed on my site one of the adds 300×250 Text ad does not have arrows, I C&P in to the next page then 4 ads appear and them nasty arrows ? I don’t understand ? I visited a site called http://www.lockergnome.com and none of his ads have the arrows ?

I looked at his code which is different from mine, I took some details out like Pub i.d
of his code

google_ad_client = “pub-XXXXXXXXXX”;
google_ad_width = 300;
google_ad_height = 250;
google_ad_format = “300×250_as”;
google_ad_type = “text_image”;
//2007-05-29: Nexus
google_ad_channel = “XXXXXXXXXX”;
google_color_border = “ffffff”;
google_color_bg = “ffffff”;
google_color_link = “0000FF”;
google_color_url = “0000FF”;
google_color_text = “000000″;
google_alternate_ad_url = ‘http://www.lockergnome.com/includes/adsense_alt_336×280.html’;
//–>

Now my code is below ;

I just don’t get it ? I want them arrows off I don’t care what anyone says they will effect you in the end.

Another point, google is more than happy to give premium users (20 Mill views)
for the membership, they can get rid of anything they want have “sponsored ads” grey on white background etc… a organic search rip off, but hay thats ok, one rule for you and one rule for anyone else and screw you if you don’t like it.

Always the problem with these big corps, google are far to big, like ebay. We still need to use them as in all fairness there is no alternatives, I am sure some smart guy is gonna tell me they make billions from some other ad company, but lets face it google is the one and I hate it, but what can I do I need them more than they need me :-(

So… anyone knows what the crack is here I would love to know, there is a way without them horrible arrows of text ads anyway.

What is your concept of aggressive advertising?

In a case like this, whose to blame? Is my colleagues website so substandard or is Adsense just that difficult to generate income?

So, going off of memory, I too had a decline in revenue from square, banner, and sky ads yet my traffic is up quite a bit. However the Link unit I run on my site is the only thing doing really well and is up higher. So I am not sure how this all ties in to the new change or if anyone else is noticing this kind of change. I still like google adsense, the admin is great and the stats are great. I have been managing sites for 10 years now on the net and it worries me to see declines since this is my bread and butter. sigh… please just be a phase.

Listen starting at around 33:15 minutes into this podcast…

http://www.podshow.com/shows/?mode=detail&episode_id=102705

I did have a period of a week with a bit lower than normal earnings, and it was around the time the feature was formally released, but I also had run some material that led to less relvant ads during that week, plus I was getting a somewhat obnoxious graphic banner ad that didn’t pay well per click. So I think that week was attributable to those. factors. I seem to be back to normal now.

Bad thing, especially considering CTR does not seem to increase at all.

Google should focus on “how to bring more targeted ads on adsense” and raise the revenue per click for the publishers!

An option to turn the arrows on and off would be a nice thing to do.