So I'm steadily working on my blog and I've seen an increase in visits, page impressions and clicks to my Adsense blocks. But what I haven't noticed is ads with images. Since the upgrades to Blogger you can now ad your Adsense code with a simple click and it will match you template style. But all I'm getting is text ads, not that I'm complaining or anything.

Before the changes to blogger when I had to get my own code through the Adsense page I would get banner ads with images along with text ads even though I had much less content, far fewer daily visits/impressions and clicks.

Anyone know if the auto generated ads through the blogger layout automatically sets your ads to default to text ads only? Or is the lack of image ads a result of a trend with advertisers?

I'd appreciate any insight.

Thanks in advance

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I went and hand created a banner ad with the wizard and opted to have text and images and they started show up. I guess if you're using the widget in blogger it will only display text ads and if you want image ads you'll have to generate the code yourself.

If you've chosen text&images type of ads you will definitely see more text ads than image ads because image ads are less or maybe Google adsense algorithm "likes" text ads more. At least that's what I have on my websites.

Thanks for the reply. I know that they change depending on a couple of variables. But I was commenting on something a little different. They don't show up at all if you add your code through blogger.

Last night I went and generated the code by hand an the image ads started appearing automatically for the block I created through the adsense page. I guess if you just add it to blogger with the drag 'n drop feature you don't get image ads at all just text ads.

Strange that it would work like that. Oh well at least now I know.

Good to hear that you found a solution.

But I suggest you take a look at this plugin for WP. (http://www.acmetech.com/blog/adsense-deluxe/). You may find it useful.

Hey thanks.

But I'm on blogger and the adsense addition is already part of our choices in elements and it basically chooses everything for you with a few clicks. But that looks neat. I'm thinking of starting a site and I've been seeing that most web hosts offer WP as a blogging feature so I'll bookmark it for later use.

You're welcome :-)