Some of you who are using adsense to monetize your sites may have noticed the new “advertise on this site” text links next to your Google ads. This was automatically added by Google a few months ago and I thought that it really distracted visitors even more then having just the Ads by Goooooooogle text link included. I thought since it was automatically placed on my ads that it was mandatory to display it. But guess what it's not. You can remove “advertise on this site” very easily in your adsense admin section. Just log in to your adsense account, click “my account” and look towards the bottom of the page. You'll see a section called “Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up”. Just click edit and opt out of displaying it. By removing the extra “advertise on this site” text link you might just increase your CTR or click through ratio increasing the money you earn. It's only been a day since I did this so I don't know if it increases CTR or not but I like not having to display the extra text link. I think adsense ads look way better without it. I would imagine only huge sites that get a ton of traffic would opt to display “advertise on this site” links because more people are willing to advertise on sites that are very very popular.
Thank you. That link in the ads was really bugging me and making the ads look quite cluttered.
Thanks that did help. I was looking for a way to remove them and this did the trick 🙂
once you remove it will it automatically remove itself from all ads, or do you have to republish the code?
Once you disable the Ads by Gooooooogle in the adsense admin it will be removed from all your ads. There is no need republish any of the adsense codes you already have in place.
I removed it last night, and that link is still on my ads.. hrmmm
Maybe you do have to publish the code
Remove “Advertise on This Site” as soon as posssible
Jake, maybe it’ll take some time before changes have effect. I also did like what this post instructed just now but the “Advertise on this site” link is still there…
Once you disable the “advertise on this site” you should never see it again across all your sites. If you still see it check to make sure you did disable it and make sure the google ads are yours, meaning they show your pub-id. It works instantly because it’s built into the adsense script, that is why the ads by gooogle appeared in the first place. Google never asked us to republish our code, they just enabled it themselves. Anyway hope that clears things up. Glad you found this post usefull.
It doesn’t work instantly at my site, but it can take some time according to this link:
http://blog.rastvor.net/2006/08/06/google-advertise-on-this-site-do-you-want-to-remove-it/
I’ll have to wait 24 ours to check if this is correct 😉
Hmmm. I disabled it and it was removed from my site instantly. I guess it might take longer for some users, but I don’t understand why that would be. It’s a javascript thing so it should be deactivated instantly.
Thanks Great Tutorial.
Question: We had ads by adsense on our website. They were up for about 3 weeks. Out of the blue they now read, ‘ the web site cannot be found’, and where the google ads once were are no longer. Do any of you know why, goggle would have removed these ads off our site or blocked them, or is this an internal problem with our site. We signed back up with adsense, and still cannot get the ads to display. Any help would be much appreciated.
I think you should wait about half an hour and check back to see if they’ve displayed properly or not. I’ve seen the same thing before and I just waited and they displayed properly after awhile or so.