Adsense Image Ads + Text Ads = Higher CTR?

Google Adsense stirred probloggers last month when they made a statement about images aligned beside Adsense ads. I thought the Adsense Beautifier plugin was probably the culprit.

So, I got this idea of aligning an image-only ad and text-only ad side by side when I reviewed my photo gallery. Take a look at these screenshot:

Image Ads

To just show image ads, make sure to have this line in your Adsense code: google_ad_type = “image”;

Text Ads

To just show text ads, make sure to have this line in your Adsense code: google_ad_type = “text”;

Basically, you’ll end up with an image ad beside a text ad and there’s no policy against this in the new Adsense TOS. Would love to hear from an Adsense Rep how this one fares with them.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

8 Comments

hip2b2 says:

18 years ago

this should be fair game since your are just putting 2 google ads side by side. it is not as if you chose the images. in your case, google did.
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marhgil says:

18 years ago

I did the same. But instead of adsense image ads, I used Adsense referral ads just beside their text ads. You don’t even have to put a border line between them, because they are both “Ads by Google”.
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yeepe.com says:

18 years ago

Google Adsense Hacked again!!!!! 1/09/2007

Rolly
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markku says:

18 years ago

Hehehe, clever! :)
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Nabil says:

18 years ago

That’s very clever, but when I read the title, I thought you’ll answer the question.
So, did your CTR increased?
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John says:

17 years ago

Its really clever tricks .. :)
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jehzlau says:

16 years ago

oo nga.. did CTR increase? Do you prefer image ads over text ads? :D Kasi puro image ads na ang andito. wah!
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Nonoy says:

14 years ago

Although this is an old post, I still want to know why my 4 text link ads on my sidebar, which was set up on my account, is now lessened to three link ads. Just wondering.
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