For some time, the Adsense gurus have been advocating using images alongside Google Adsense. The general school of thought has been that this increases CTR and is compliant with the Adsense terms and conditions, particularly if a line is used between the images to differentiate between ad and image.
Well, Google have finally published their thoughts on the matter and many web masters should take note as it appears there will be a lot of sites that are no longer compliant and could end up in the Google sin bin. Google have categorically stated that this practice is not an acceptable practice and is therefore non compliant.
Read the full Google Adsense and images report
If you are anything like me, and subscribe to quite a few newsletters, marketing accounts, affiliate schemes, blogs, forums etc. - the list is endless, you will probably have a lot of account names and passwords. I got totally fed up entering names and passwords every time I wanted to post on a blog or forum and so I looked for an alternative.
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Well, it been a bit of a torrid time for many with regards to Google and AdSense but if you are still getting traffic 
here is the final part to make sure your ads are relevant. I’ve summarised my findings over the past few weeks in this post.
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Following on from my last post there has been a great deal of discussion with regards to the latest going ons at the big G. Many of the SEO forums have a thread running discussing, sometimes with considerable venom, the changes to the Google index. Lots of very solid sites have all but disappeared and some are saying only to be replaced by more ’spammy’ sites. I haven’t seen the spammy sites but I have definitely noticed a change since the 7th December. I have personally had sites that have been solid page ones in Google relegated only to reappear a few days later.
Matt Cutts (Google search engineer) has appeared in the thread linked below saying that Google haven’t changed anything but something has definitely occurred and many say not for the better; only time will tell once the dust has settled. This has happened at a very awkward time of year for many who make a living online and just goes to show that complete reliance on Google for an online income is a very precarious course to take.
Read the whole thread below:
Webmaster World Google Thread
Have you been seeing strange results at Google since the 7th December? I have had some very peculiar results in the last few days with pages that are redirected being indexed and other solid pages disappearing altogether. I hope that this is a Google glitch and normal service returns soon as pre Christmas traffic has taken a nose dive on some of my sites.
This subject is appearing in quite a few of the search engine forums with some reporting massive upturns in traffic and others taking a plummet. Do you have a similar experience?
