AdSense Creating A Blank Space

I got back from my vacation yesterday. How did my week away from the computer go? How about this: I made a record amount of money (for me) last week: Over $2000. Pretty nice to be on vacation and set a new record for money making at the same time! And that's one of the things that's so great about affiliate marketing. Once you get the ball rolling, it mostly rolls on it's own.

Today's post is about something that started happening during my vacation: AdSense Ads Not Displaying Properly. This blog should actually be a good example of what I'm talking about. AdSense only displays 3 blocks of contextual AdSense ads per page, so if you place AdSense ads in the code for a blog post like I do (in this blog's case they are at the bottom of each blog post) then normally the ads display for the top 3 blog posts on the front page and then don't display for the rest of the blog posts on the page. For some reason now, instead of just not displaying at all, they are leaving a blank space where they would have shown. This leaves an unsightly white gap. I'm assuming that they are aware of this bug and are doing something about it... So I'm not going to mess with my settings in the meantime. But perhaps I shouldn't assume so much?

I suppose as far as problems to come home to, this is a pretty good one. While it does make the layout of the front page (and archive pages) look a little funny, it's not that big of a deal. I'm glad I have nothing more serious to worry about (at least as far as my webmastering goes and that's all this particular site is about.)