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adsense default font size changed today???

by rickymarket
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My adsense CTR is crazy low at 0.xx%. My traffic is similar to the past few days and nothing has been changed on my websites.

I took a look at some of my sites to see if the ads are relevant, however, i noticed all of the 336X280 (large rectangle) ad unit font size changed to small.

I did not make any change to my adsense unit settings and i use default font size/family for each unit. This can be only explained by the fact that G changed their default settings?

Did anyone have similar experience today? I did two tests below

Test 1: I have changed the font size setting to Large. However, after 60 minutes, I still saw the same "small" font size.

Test 2: To further test if G accept my ad unit settings, I changed the default font family to Aria and font size Large, 30 minutes passed, nothing has been changed so far.

Any advice? I do not see any updates from G.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Did you try creating a 100% new Adsense Ad (not just changing the settings on the old Ad)?

    Try a new Ad see what happens.

    Check the Adsense Ad on your page in another browser, to see If the font is the same.
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  • Profile picture of the author rickymarket
    Hi Yukon,

    Thanks for the reply. I will try that. I just do not understand why suddenly the default settings got changed which have been running ok for the past few months.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    If it's changing the font size on all Ads, I would only change a single Ad block just to see what happens (font size).

    You never know, it might self correct tomorrow on it's own.
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  • Profile picture of the author cagliostro
    Guys do you mean that bigger font size ads get more clicks ? Did i get that right ?
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    • Profile picture of the author rickymarket
      Originally Posted by cagliostro View Post

      Guys do you mean that bigger font size ads get more clicks ? Did i get that right ?
      depending on your site, you can test site for a week or two to see.
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  • Profile picture of the author rickymarket
    tested with two newly created 336X280 ads with default settings and manual settings...

    unfortunately font size is still "small" by default
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  • Profile picture of the author rickymarket
    btw, it only happens to 336X280....160X360 still works ok.
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  • Profile picture of the author down
    Just checked my website and it seems I didn't find any change on ads font on 336X280, all still the same as yesterday. When Google do experiments, as well as you.
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