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Jonathan Jeter has been creating websites since 1997. He is currently Director of Technology Services and Digital Development at TracyLocke, a shopper marketing agency. You can follow him @mywebthoughts, on LinkedIn or connect on Google+.

Exploring Standard Ad Unit Sizes: Google AdSense 120×600 Skyscraper

February 2, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

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Next up in the series of posts on Google AdSense ad sizes are the ads in the Google Adsense “Other – Vertical” banner category, starting with the 120×600 skyscraper. The reason the ad unit is called a skyscraper is because it is tall and thin and can dominate the space, like an actual, physical skyscraper. This ad unit is not in the AdSense top 4 recommended sizes and is listed in the Delisted Standard Ad Units category of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Ad Unit Guidelines. Microsoft Advertising, however, continues to list the 120 x 600 – Skyscraper as part of its standard ad unit sizes, both for marketers and agencies, as well for small and medium businesses.

The original skyscraper was thinner than the current commonly used version of the skyscraper, to accommodate the small side rails in the layouts of many web sites. As site design has changed and elements, including sidebars, of site layouts have gotten larger, the Google AdSense 160×600 Wide Skyscraper has become the more prominently used ad unit.

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The acme.com Google AdSense Debaucle

February 1, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

AdSense Account ScreenI have been watching the interaction of Jef Poskanzer of acme.com with AdSense with great interest over the last couple of days, because the way that Google AdSense deals with its publishers interests me a great deal both personally and professionally. On January 30, 2012, Jef posted this article on his site, detailing how AdSense suddenly deactivated his account and denied his appeals to be reinstated. That’s not necessarily the disturbing part, although it brings up the all-too-real fear that I believe all of us web publishers have that one day Google will frown on us and make the same decision on our accounts. However, I read today that his account was quickly reinstated when Matt Cutts got involved on Google+.

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Exploring Standard Ad Unit Sizes: Google AdSense 234×60 Half Banner

February 1, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

Google Adsense Page Navigation
Image by Stephen Edgar - Netweb via Flickr

As we delve further in this series of posts on Google AdSense ad sizes, we’ll explore the less used and alternate versions of Google AdSense banners. The AdSense 234 x 60 – Half Banner is found in the “Other – Horizontal” category, after the four main recommended sizes. While this ad unit is in the Delisted Standard Ad Unit sizes on the IAB Ad Unit Guidelines, it can be found as a recommended size in the Microsoft Advertising Standard Ad specs. I think the reason for the difference is that the IAB creates standards for agencies and other large advertisers, while AdSense and Microsoft Advertising also provide marketing channels for smaller businesses and publishers.

The 234×60 – Half Banner is very useful in side columns, especially near a navigation menu or under a larger square or rectangle ad unit. I have also seen it used in the footer of a website or blog.

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Exploring Standard Ad Unit Sizes: Google AdSense 468×60 Banner

January 31, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

Ah, the original banner ad. Now relegated to the description of 468×60 – Banner in the “Other – Horizontal” category of AdSense, it is the original banner ad that showed up all over the Internet in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. This ad unit is the grandfather of Internet banners. The 468×60 reigned supreme in the days of 640×480 and 800×600 screen resolution, but has given way today to leaderboards and skyscrapers with the advent of larger screen sizes.

When was the last time you saw the small version of the classic banner ad? No, really. I have searched and searched across sites for examples to put in this article, but haven’t been able to find any on major sites anywhere. I did find a few smaller sites that still use the 468×60 banner, but they also plaster ads all over the page – not really the type of advertising you want to be associated with.

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Lego Man Boldly Goes Into Space Like No Other Lego Man Has Before!

January 30, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

Lego Man in Space
Lego Man in Space

A couple of teenage high school students from Toronto have launched a Lego man into space. No, really, they have! Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, 17 year-old classmates, launched a lego minifigure holding a Canadian flag using a weather balloon filled with helium and captured great video of the lego minifigure with a backdrop of the Earth. The “Lego Man in Space” has a YouTube video that has received over 2 million views, as well as his own Facebook page with more than 5,000 fans.

While some news outlets have claimed that this is the first lego man in space, according to Universe Today, several Lego toys are constantly flying even higher above the Earth at this very moment aboard the International Space Station as part of an educational outreach effort by NASA and Lego. And 3 more Lego figurines are speeding to Jupiter aboard NASA’s Juno orbiter.

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Exploring Standard Ad Unit Sizes: Google AdSense 160×600 Wide Skyscraper

January 30, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

160x600 Wide Skyscraper on mashable.com
The Wide Skyscraper works well in a side column

The wide skyscraper is another ad unit that has taken over as one of the most prevalent ad units visible throughout The Internet. This ad size is recommended by all of the major ad networks, including Google AdSense, Microsoft Advertising and the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau). Unlike most of the square ad units, the skyscraper is designed for very specific locations, as it is very tall and thin, although not as thin as its predecessor, the 120 x 600 – Skyscraper. The skyscraper is very useful for small columns, or rails, on your site, under menus, categories, tags or other, similar list-type content.

Because of this, the 160 x 600 – Wide Skyscraper has become harder to find, as wider screen have allowed the navigation columns to expand to 250 or 300 pixels, accommodating the larger square ad units. However, a lot of properties are starting to put the Wide skyscraper next to a list or menu in the wider columns that are now found in most modern layouts.

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Exploring Standard Ad Unit Sizes: Google AdSense 728×90 Leaderboard

January 28, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

WebMD 728x90 Leaderboard
728x90 Leaderboard on the home page of WebMD

Ah, the Leaderboard – it is the younger, flashier cousin to the original 468×60 banner and is now widely used throughout the Internet. While the  728×90 – Leaderboard is one of the standard recommended AdSense ad sizes by Google, it is also a standard size recommended by Microsoft Advertising (Bing/Yahoo!) and the  IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau).

When used in AdSense, the 728 x 90 – Leaderboard ad unit can contain either text ads or image/rich media ads and is intended for the very top or bottom of a site and doesn’t usually fit in the constrained area of a blog content area.

An example of the text version of the AdSense Leaderboard can be found below. Leaderboards typically contain graphic banner ads and not text ads as shown in this example. However, if you click on the text (not the link) in the banner above and move your mouse to the right, the content area should scroll and you’ll be able to see the rest of the text that Google puts into the text version of the 728×90 Leaderboard in AdSense.

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Removing the /blog Slug in WordPress MultiSite

January 27, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter 2 Comments

Wordpress LogoI ran into an interesting issue at work today. We’re setting up a company blog using WordPress and we’re using the multisite functionality to manage how different sections of the blog work. This may not be the most efficient way to do it, but in the corporate world, you want to make sure that the right people have the right access to the right sections so everyone can work in their own happy little space.

Everything was working fine until we started setting up permalinks according to the instructions provided by our SEO expert. The issue we ran into was that WordPress automatically adds a /blog slug in front of the permalinks. My understanding is that this slug is to avoid conflicts between permalinked categories on the main site and sub-sites that may have the same name. That makes sense. At the same time, though, there should be a clearly explained way to change this in the network admin section of the site.

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Exploring Standard Ad Unit Sizes: Google AdSense 336 x 280 – Large Rectangle

January 27, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

AdSense 336x280 Large Rectangle Example
AdSense 336x280 Large Rectangle Example

Google’s second recommended ad unit size for AdSense is the 336 x 280 – Large Rectangle. This ad unit size is not listed in the most popular sizes on the Yahoo! Ad Network, but is on the listed in the Microsoft Advertising PubCenter for ad publishers for small businesses, but not in the Standard Ad Creative Acceptance Policy for Marketers & Agencies. On the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) Ad Unit Guidelines, this size is listed in the Delisted Standard Ad Units as of February 28, 2011.

While this size is available in AdSense for both text and image/rich media ads, it seems that this size is used mainly for small publishers and due to it’s size, is commonly used to take up a large area of the content. Google offer examples of the 336×380 Large Rectangle and they are all embedded in or below the content.

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Exploring Standard Ad Unit Sizes: Google AdSense 300 x 250 – Medium Rectangle

January 26, 2012 By Jonathan Jeter 4 Comments

CNN 300x250 Ad Unit Example
CNN Web page has 300x250 Display Ad in the right sidebar

This is the first of a series of posts on Google AdSense ad sizes. The main reason I’m doing this is for my own reference. There won’t necessarily be any great insight or advice on how to use these ads. It is mainly a test environment so I can see all of the current AdSense options in action. It will also compare Google AdSense ad sizes to standard agency ad unit sizes.

Four Recommended Ad Sizes

AdSense has four main recommended AdSense ad unit sizes, which are the following:

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  • 300 x 250 – Medium Rectangle
  • 336 x 280 – Large Rectangle
  • 728 x 90 – Leaderboard
  • 160 x 600 – Wide Skyscraper

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