Adsense changes?

[searchbliss]

AdSense will soon be changing how ads can be "clicked". The background of a text ad will no longer take users to the advertiser's site. Only clicking on the Link or Title in an ad will take a user through.

I read about this yasterday (cannot remember where) so I cannot confirm if this is true and what the source was. If it is true, I suspect this will decrease "accidental clicks" and save Google money.

[2mymall]

It does not save Google money but it saves money for Google advertisers.

[2mymall]

This still does not address the problem of click fraud. A competitor can and will still click, or worse still! teach the whole clan to click on the title only.

[searchbliss]

Originally Posted by 2mymall

It does not save Google money but it saves money for Google advertisers.

Good point.

[bogs]

Google are gonna work on that, theres alot of complain regarding fraud clicks..

[divalicious]

Originally Posted by 2mymall

It does not save Google money but it saves money for Google advertisers.

Yap... I think this is good, co it may help reduce accidental clicks, since the links are now on the title and the display url, and not on the whole ads anymore.

[masterofthe]

Originally Posted by searchbliss

AdSense will soon be changing how ads can be "clicked". The background of a text ad will no longer take users to the advertiser's site. Only clicking on the Link or Title in an ad will take a user through.

I read about this yasterday (cannot remember where) so I cannot confirm if this is true and what the source was. If it is true, I suspect this will decrease "accidental clicks" and save Google money.

Sad that you can't remember the source but here's something new also, for those who haven't heard about video units integration with AdSense.

Hope this helps you and others.

[poksa]

the effect of that changes is good for the advertisers but not for the publishers...

[x3mario]

There are some innocent site owner got banned by google adsense just because of fraud clicks. Hope that google can resolve this issue for the sake of innocent site owner.

[wwwAD-SENSINGcom]

It has been done. I can't click on text on any site. This has been primarily done because of a worrying number of accidental clicks increase.

[x3mario]

If it is true, I suspect this will decrease "accidental clicks" and save Google money.

I think this is true, I got a good revenue before but now I end up for the whole day of cents.

[Steven_D]

people are really sneeky with their site advertising, perfect example is domaintools.com

if you do a search for a domain, on the next page where they display the results, the take you down about 3 inches from the top so the search bar at the top is the google ad search bar thing, so people are tying in the next domain and being taken to a google sponsored results page, and people think it is domaintools.com so they click.

it took me 2 attempts to realise that if I want to check another domain, I have to scroll up to the text box above.

very sneeky

[searchbliss]

Originally Posted by Steven_D

people are really sneeky with their site advertising, perfect example is domaintools.com

if you do a search for a domain, on the next page where they display the results, the take you down about 3 inches from the top so the search bar at the top is the google ad search bar thing, so people are tying in the next domain and being taken to a google sponsored results page, and people think it is domaintools.com so they click.

it took me 2 attempts to realise that if I want to check another domain, I have to scroll up to the text box above.

very sneeky

Well they'd better be careful. Too many clicks from single IP's may get them banned (I suspect).

[Steven_D]

maby, but I doubt google would ban a site with the size and status of domaintools.com

I would imagine they have some customer retention team who check the validity of a breach before they ban

[searchbliss]

Originally Posted by Steven_D

maby, but I doubt google would ban a site with the size and status of domaintools.com

I would imagine they have some customer retention team who check the validity of a breach before they ban

I doubt G cares about "size and statis" (minus their own).

[Steven_D]

they make 1000x more money from a company like domaintools.com than they will from your site so of course size and status matters.

they can ban every site you own so when people say, your not doing anything they can say, bs we banned all these sites, that keeps the protesters happy and their investors happy.

theres a reason that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are multi billionaires and it wasnt the lottery.

[searchbliss]

Originally Posted by Steven_D

they make 1000x more money from a company like domaintools.com than they will from your site so of course size and status matters.

they can ban every site you own so when people say, your not doing anything they can say, bs we banned all these sites, that keeps the protesters happy and their investors happy.

theres a reason that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are multi billionaires and it wasnt the lottery.

Did I hit a nerve?

[Steven_D]

no i dont think so... its just me.