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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 120x600 skyscraper. The reason the ad unit is called a skyscraper is because it is tall and thin and can … [Continue reading]
I 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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Ah, the original banner ad. Now relegated to the description of 468x60 - 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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Ah, the Leaderboard - it is the younger, flashier cousin to the original 468x60 banner and is now widely used throughout the Internet. While the 728x90 - Leaderboard is one of the standard recommended AdSense ad sizes by Google, it is also a … [Continue reading]
I 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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]