While writing a new post on another one of my websites today, I noticed an AdSense format I’ve never seen before. It seems to be a combination Ad Unit/Link Unit format: Google is doing a great job with putting 7 different links in a small 468×60 area without making it look cluttered. I’m curious as [...]
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Ah, that wonderful time of the season in which Google updates their displayed Page Rank. For some, it’s a great time. Filled with rejoice as their Page Rank increases by one or two points. For others it can be terrible if they lose a number or two, decreasing advertising profits, traffic, and egos as Google [...]
Time to start your A/B Testing! Google finally realizes that the standard square corners on AdSense ads don’t fit in with every website and theme. Most prefer not to use borders at all (including myself,) allowing the ads to blend in better with the website design, but i really like the look of these corners [...]
Finally! Google updated it’s pagerank across the board, which has been expected ever since April 15th. Egonitron.com is a Page Rank 6! Having only been up for a couple of months, it shocked me a little bit, but I’m certainly not complaining. Your Google Toolbar may not reflect this yet, and the Search Status plugin [...]
Google announced today that they will changing the cleverly named Froogle product (a pun on “frugal”) to “Google Product Search,” which is much more clear on what it actually does. I’m kinda disappointed, I always like the “frugal” pun, but apparently it confused people. What’s next, changing Picasa to “Google Image Editor”? Maybe AdSense could [...]
WTF is this? On AutomoBlog.net there are only a couple of different ads being displayed, and they added this Doubleclick text on the AdSense ads. Is this a test? It looks like crap. Update: Now it’s displaying both types of ads; standard and the new type. I guess they’re just testing the new features from [...]
