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AdSense and image placement We ask that publishers not line up images and ads in a way that suggests a relationship between the images and the ads. If your visitors believe that the images and the ads are directly associated, or that the advertiser is offering the exact item found in the neighboring image, they may click the ad expecting to find something that isn’t actually being offered. That’s not a good experience for users or advertisers. This is important for many AdSense publishers. From the examples that have been provided, if you are using a plugin like AdSense Beautifier, you might be violating Google’s AdSense policies and might want to look into removing the plugin.
I (somewhat shamefully) agree that I am not an ad clicker. On the average, I will click on somewhere between 0 to 1 ad a day, tops. I also do not fall too often for clever advertising on blogs and websites. I have learned to navigate around them. Some would say I have developed ad blindness. More often than not, I tend to look for clever placement methods, interesting ad services and such without actually clicking on anything or navigating away from the original page. If something interests me tremendously, I might distract myself for a few minutes but rarely have I actually purchased or signed on to a product or service that I was referred to by an ad. However, this evening, I came upon such a clever ad placement that I had to think about it for a few minutes before the bulb in my head flickered and flashed on. I could swear that the links at the top of this consumer reports article were actual links from the site and not ads. I even clicked on one to make sure. In spite of being somewhat fooled into thinking that these were real links, I am more impressed than annoyed by them. They are well placed, not obnoxious, mostly very useful and last but not the least, they were very clickable! Their click through rate must be to die for. I am assuming that this site is a Premium Adsense publisher and thus has been authorized the flexibility to do what they have done. I wish Google would provide more tips and tricks on how to put up ads this well connected with the material on a page or provide some of the functionality to regular publishers. My kudos to the developers. I hope I learn something useful from this experience.
Performancing has quietly released their ad network called Performancing Parters that lets bloggers to put up 125×125 graphical ads on their blogs on a revenue share basis. They give the blogger 70% of the revenue share and a very high 5% lifetime revenue share of any bloggers that you refer (which is quite nice really). Installation and setup is very simple and this can potentially create another method for bloggers to make some extra video game money. I have decided to give them a shot. They only support vertical ads for the time being but I am told that that will change in the future. I am thinking of reducing the presence of AdSense, which does not do very well. If the people that run a project can be any indication of its future performance, I would say that Performancing Partners is going to do really well.
None of the above links are partner/affiliate links. However, if you use the following link to visit Performancing Partners (affiliate link) I will get 5% of any future revenue generated through your blog (that does not come out of your payment, it comes out of theirs). [EDIT] All links are affiliate links, I am told
New referrals for Google Pack and Picasa you can now refer your users to Google Pack and Picasa. You’ll earn up to $2 for each time a user installs Pack and up to $1 for each Picasa install. Google really wants to get into your computer. I have not installed Google Pack (and do not intend to do so) but for those without virus protection, Google does seem to offer a 6 month subscription to Norton Antivirus 2005. Are you installing Google Pack?
I thought that ads with sexual content would not be displayed through Ad-Sense. But this morning I was quite rudely surprised to see a blatent sex ad on my personal blog. It was from sex_by_state or something of that nature. If Google is going to allow sexual content in their ads, I might need to make some changes to prevent that.
I wonder if this was a mistake or if Google has changed some policies. Was I mistaken in assuming that AdSense does not allow sexual content or did I miss something completely??
Tim Yang and Ozh have released Problogger Clean, a clean 3 columns theme with original features mostly aimed towards Adsense.
Options are managed from an admin panel (using Wordpress Theme Toolkit) which gives the theme a lot of functionalities and customization possibilities.
The theme comes with built-in ads, so you won’t have a hard time trying to implement ads in a theme that was not designed for it. Its feature I like best : “Adsense Click Safety“, which prevents any click you could make on your own ads to be recorded, therefore to be counted as fraudulent.
Read more : Tim’s announcement, Ozh’s announcement.
Mark Ghosh 
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