Adsense showing lots of Google-branded ads lately

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I'm noticing on my own sites and others, that there are lots of Google-branded ads showing up in Adsense blocks. By G-branded I mean ads for Google Adwords, Google docs, etc, taking up the whole adsense block. This may explain a recent drop in earnings.

Anyone else see this?

I wonder if it's because ad spending on Adwords has dropped with the bad economy, and Google can't fill all the available slots... or if G is identifying sites which mostly exist to earn Adsense $$, and penalising them by showing these ads instead of real ones. Or something else.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    I have not seen that. Let me ask you a question. Do you have
    any ads set to image only? If so, are the google ads you are
    seeing showing up only on those, or are there text links too?

    It may just being a case of no image ads to show except theirs.
    I vaguely remember getting something like this way back in the
    past.

    Do your pages have anything to do with online advertising? If
    so, maybe google is ramping up a little advertising.

    The interesting thing would be to try and figure out how much
    they pay per click.

    Paul
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