Google Tests New “Show More” & Related Words AdSense Units

Google AdSense has been busy testing new AdSense units this weekend, with two new formats spotted in the wild. The first comes via a DigitalPoint Forums thread, where dozens of publishers are noticing related words at the bottom of their normal AdSense units. Here is an image of one ad in action. Notice the related […]

Chat with SearchBot

Google AdSense has been busy testing new AdSense units this weekend, with two new formats spotted in the wild.


The first comes via a DigitalPoint Forums thread, where dozens of publishers are noticing related words at the bottom of their normal AdSense units. Here is an image of one ad in action. Notice the related words at the bottom of the ad:

Google AdSense Link & Text Ad Unit Mixed

These resemble AdSense link units placed in the bottom of regular text ad units.

The second Google AdSense test is a “show more” link found at the bottom of Google ads. I found this at iBrowseHere.com , and here is a screen shot of it in action.

Google AdSense Show More

Clicking on the “Show More” link takes you to a new page with related ads.

In a related now, there was a outage that took down all Google PPA ads over a 24+ hour period this weekend.


About the author

Barry Schwartz
Staff
Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

Get the must-read newsletter for search marketers.