We all know that Adsense is so far, the best contextual high paying ad network. Adsense is very strict with their program policies and if
Google adsense
they find any website violating their TOS, they disable such Adsense account. It’s very important to follow Adsense quality and program guideline, to ensure your Adsense account never get banned. One of the most common question any new blogger will ask for is: What’s the maximum number of Adsense unit they can put on a page.
Google Adsense offer different type of ads and they are mostly be categorize in following format:
- Adsense content unit
- Adsense link unit
- Adsense for search
Adsense used to offer Adsense video units but they retired it later. Here are Maximum Adsense ad units allowed for a web page:
Adsense content unit:
You can place maximum of 3 content unit. Content unit are available in following sizes:
728*90, 468*60, 234*60, 125*125, 120*600, 160*600, 180*150, 120*240, 200*200, 250*250, 300*250, 336*280
Personally I have seen 336*280 and 160*600 to be very effective. Anyways, you can use ads from multiple pub-id but total no. of content display ad should not go beyond 3.
Adsense link units:
Adsense link units perform really well when it’s blended well with your theme and places above fold. I tested it by placing in navbar and it turns out to be top performing ad unit. You can place maximum of 3 link units on a page. You can find the various sizes for Adsense link units
here.
Adsense for search:
You can add up to 2 adsense for search unit on a page. For a big Website, Adsense for search unit performs really well and if you have not yet set up Adsense for search units, you can read our guide on
How to set up Adsense for search.
You can read about maximum adsense ad units on
official blog post and ignore the video ad part as it is retired now.
Few things which I learned from my experience, sometime 2 ad unit perform better than 3 ad units. Placing ad above the fold yields better result. A combination of Image + text ads perform better. Though there are so many available options to place ads but I will highly suggest use minimum of ad units or utilize adverts only at the bottom or at the sidebar.
Do let us know how many Maximum adsense ad units are you using on your blog? are you using all possible ad units or you using less than the maximum limit?
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Can I put all of 1 and 2 and 3 on one single page?
i.e. that would mean I can put 9 ads altogether on a single webpage. Is my understanding correct?.
Or it means 3 combinations of links and text/image ads.
Lynx
You can add
3 Content
3 Text link and 2 Adsense for search,…
So in total you can have 8 ad units…
I have tested different ad units in my websites. I got success with 320X200 and 468X60 format ads on the top of the post. We can have maximum 6 ads 3 from ad units and 3 from link units. I have no any experience with video ads.
I feel very Strange after reading this post because Google allows three Adsense content unit Ads on one page where i can see only one on this page. Why?
Yes ! What Harris said is right. Maximum 6 ads consisting of 3 ad units and 3 link units are allowed. But I only put 1 336×280 on my main page. While on the post page I put all 3 336×280. I did not put any link unit because I think it doesn’t look good on my blog.
@Lynx, you are absolutely correct. You can put the maximum number of ads from each category on a single page without any issues. Well this is a very nice piece of information given here. This would really help the new comers.
Hello,
thanks for the short and precise article, Mr. Harsh.
I have the side ads giving better results, as you said.
thanks for sharing!
I am using to 336*280 ad units and one 728*90 ad unit and when I am creating google adsense for search, always its shows any error.
I use both ‘image & text’ ads & also Link ads. As per my experience, link ads work like magic if placed before the post body, apart from navbar of course.
can anyone tell me .. if i give more ads on a page , the CPC is decrease ?
means CPC depend on the no of ads on a page or not?