Images next to adsense ads - my experience

Most examples of images next to adsense ads involve the 728 x 90 banner size. This size doesn't work for my site so I had to try them on the large rectangle instead.

I saw a great example here:
http://www.123promotion.co.uk/ppc/index.php

This site dynamically changes the images depending on your search. For example, if you search for chair, little thumbnails of chairs will appear next to the adsense ads. They get the thumbnails from images.google.

So I tried this on my sites and it does really well on one of my sites. It basically doubled the clickthroughs. But on another one of my sites, it actually lowered my clickthroughs by half. Really weird.

This just shows how important it is to test, test, test!! Hope this helps.

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I thought showing adsense on search results pages was against TOS? I have always been disabling AS on those kinds of pages.

Neat execution though!

 

I wasn't aware of that. Can someone confirm that this is indeed the case?
I did receive approval from Google for my site. It's similar in layout but doesn't have a search function.

 

I looked through the prohibited use and didn't see anything about search pages specifically, after thinking I did a few times, so I don't think putting adsense on search pages is in violation of the TOS.

It is a bit confusing because they intermingle adsense and their search prohibitions in the same paragraph. But they don't specifically say you can not put ads on search pages.

Although it might fall under the no content clause.

 

I contacted them awhile ago about this, and you are allowed to place ads on search result pages.

 

It used to be a violation but they changed it sometime before. So now you are allowed to put adsense code on search results page.

By the way, how do you get the image from images.google.com every time? Are you using any kind of customized script?

 

Looks very much like what Critters was doing a few days back, but he scaled it down (I think he shelved it, in fact) because Google was maybe/maybe not against it, and to be safe, he didn't want to risk banishment. If I were you I'd keep an eye on this particular site for a week or so and see if they change it. If they do change it, that means they were warned by Google; if not, then well, I guess it's okay. Or at least, Googs don't care enough to ban you for it.

P.S. As per my theory that Googs has employees monitoring all the big Adsense forums, I'm betting their trolls will notice your post, visit the site, and decide rather it's against the rules or not. So, again, I'd keep an eye on this one first before trying it on your own site.

 

I cooled it so not to rock the boat b4 my big payment, but, alas, still no payment in progress :|

 

I tired it using your chairs example. Very nice. Isn´t it a bit naughty pulling the ads from Google like that though? The pic properties give urls like this:

http:// google. com/images?q=tbn:mheWGM1O1yYJ:www. somesite. com/wearever_1.jpg

Doesn´t that mean that the 123promo site is stealing bandwidth?

 

I don't know about the legalities of that, but I sure wouldn't mess with it. Especially if most of my revenue came from Adsense. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

 

How were you able to make it so it automatically retrieves from google images? I couldn't get this to work...

 

Clever idea but, I think I agree, I wouldn't meddle with it. Plus, Google Images doesn't always deliver sensible results... you can get some weird stuff appearing sometimes.

Aaron

 

Hi

Which script can you use to display images next to adsense based on keywords?
Can anyone help?

TIA

 

Great 1st post on a 4 month old thread

 

Is that wrong or a problem? You don't have to mean! I was just hoping some of the experts here could help me...that's all