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The ads you’ve been searching for: Introducing AdSense Custom Search Ads
Monday, March 28, 2011
Here at Google we’ve put a lot of work into displaying the best ads on search results pages, and we want your results pages to benefit too. If your site is search-focused -- for example, if your users are looking for jobs, travel, products, or local businesses -- the ads you display can now be targeted to the same search query you use to return results. This means more relevant ads for users, more revenue for publishers, and better value to advertisers. Today we’re excited to share our latest AdSense for search product:
Custom Search Ads
.
In addition to great targeting, Custom Search Ads are designed to fit your existing search results’ look and feel. Instead of pre-defined sizes, you can specify the precise width of each ad unit along with the number of individual ads to display, the ad layout, font size, font face, and much more. You can take a look at how some of our first publishers are using these today on
LemonFree.com
or
eCrater.com
.
With Custom Search Ads, we can rapidly develop and launch new search ad formats and extensions without requiring you to update your search code. For example, on Google’s results pages we’ve been busy testing new search
ad extensions
to provide users with information like locations, product images, page links, and merchant information. Two of these new formats are available today in Custom Search Ads:
Ad Sitelinks
and
Seller Ratings
. Ad Sitelinks extend the value of ads by showcasing up to 4 additional links to specific, relevant content within an advertiser’s site. Seller ratings add star ratings below a merchant’s ad aggregated from review sites across the web. These help highlight ads for merchants highly recommended by online shoppers. As new formats are developed in the future, we’ll continue to bring them to Custom Search Ads so you benefit automatically.
To get started with Custom Search Ads,
sign up today
! We’re currently only able to accept and support a limited number of publishers, but we’re excited to review your application and expand this program in the future.
Posted by Ben Lisbakken, Software Engineer and Michael Brandell, Product Specialist
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