Popular Search Links Appearing in Adsense Ads

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Adsense may be experimenting with a new type of ad format which I noticed in one of my site today. In this, the ad-space just contains links to some of the popular queries made on Google, and they are only slightly related to the content of the page in which this ad appears.

You can see a snapshot of the Ad that appeared below:

This appeared in a space which I had set for only image ads, and its size is 336x280.
It seems Adsense is trying to get more queries on those keywords which are high demand for ads and bid rates.

Have anyone else noticed such ads? if so, tell us more by leaving your comments.

3 comments:

Vatsal 12:22 AM: we are also getting the same type of ads on our website http://www.funfani.com
these ads are killing my earnings, as they do not pay anything. You must change all image ads to text ads to avoid these ads.
getanswers 6:12 AM: does it carry any CPC ?
Sharath A.V 8:28 AM: No, not unless someone clicks on one of the search phrases, and then click on any of the ads displayed along with the search results for that phrase. This in my experience gives very low CTR.