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.
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April 27th, 2006 at 6:53 am
Thank you. That link in the ads was really bugging me and making the ads look quite cluttered.
May 5th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Thanks that did help. I was looking for a way to remove them and this did the trick
May 12th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
once you remove it will it automatically remove itself from all ads, or do you have to republish the code?
July 22nd, 2006 at 10:10 am
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.
July 28th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
I removed it last night, and that link is still on my ads.. hrmmm
Maybe you do have to publish the code
July 29th, 2006 at 1:58 am
Remove “Advertise on This Site” as soon as posssible
July 31st, 2006 at 7:56 am
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…
August 1st, 2006 at 10:29 am
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.
August 12th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
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
August 13th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
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.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Thanks Great Tutorial.