Google Adsense: Understanding Image Ads and Making Google Adsense Dollars with Writingup.com
What are image ads?
Image ads are graphical ads. Unlike traditional banner ads, image ads are also targeted to the appropriate audience, just like text ads. A publisher that has a combination of image ads and text ads has a greater revenue generating potential.
Image ads are only for Adsense for Content pages and not available for Adsense for Search results pages.
There are 5 major formats of image ads. The Leaderboard, which is about twice the size of a banner ad, the banner image ad, the skyscraper, the wide skyscraper and the medium rectangle. Googles technology determines on a page by page basis whether image ads, text ads, or a combination of both will make you more money and then delivers the appropriate format.
You can choose to run only image ads, but Google recommends selecting both, thereby giving them a better chance to target the right advertising for your page, generating more revenue for you.
Bottom line: taking these two methods together will give you the best chance at making the most revenue.
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