Blogger Gets Inline AdSense Ads
Google’s Blogger has added to its interface the ability to place ads between blog posts, known as inline ads. Using Blogger’s Dashboard, users can click a check box to “Show Ads Between Posts”, which gives them the option of spreading the ads after every one or more post (for example, selecting to show every 2 posts would show an ad after the 2nd, 4th and 6th post), up to three ads per page, and customize the size and color of those ads.
While this was always possible with complex code and sometimes some bad or genius hacks, Google is bringing this to the blog dashboard so even beginner’s can do it with ease. Features like this are extremely important if Google wants to win back many of the users it lost to Windows Live Spaces, but it’ll also need more of the MySpace/Facebook-like social networking features many younger users demand.
I avoid adsense like the plague. It’s terrible to say, but how many of you reading this comment don’t do the same thing. We all know better right? Well, have you checked out the new Adsense videos. I’d say anything new at this point will have a better CTR conversion. To you out there hosting an adsense page you know this equates more profit. I’ve found a few samples of the adsense videos at www.monetizationweekly.com It seems to me that I would be more inclined to click on a video than the ads I regularly see in the right nav or even discreetly disguised in the middle of blog content. Check it out.
Comment by Michelle Amos | August 23, 2007
Google now has contextual advertising embedded in Google Image Search results - each page has two horizontal sponsored link sections. See screen capture below.
The other popular Google properties that are yet to be monetized include Google News and Google Blog Search.
I steal everything I know from the same site: www.monetizationweekly.com . I apologize, just have to give a good old hats off to monetizationweekly.
Comment by Michelle Amos | August 28, 2007
The new inline ads option seems to be available only if you use Blogger Beta, though. I started all my blogs with Blogger but the introduction of the new templates and widgets was irritating the **** out of me and gave me the push I needed to switch to self hosted Wordpress. I would never go back, Wordpress is so reliable and gives much more control over the blog design. My Adsense ads are randomly scattered among the blog posts using an free Wordpress plugin that took second to install.
Comment by Flora Earl | September 3, 2007