Google has recently released a “heat map” of where best to place your Adsense ads on your page.
Just goes to confirm what i already know
Check out the heat map here

There have been a number of reports concerning the appearance of Google AdSense ads in an RSS feed of note. While this particular service appears to only be in a testing phase, it does demonstrate Google is finally embracing RSS, at least in an advertising sense.
The AdSense/RSS ads were first noticed on the feed [...]

For years Google has told us that it’s not possible for incoming links to hurt you, or at least that’s the impression i remember from reading about it often enough, but this appears to be no longer the case. And SEO’s are wondering when they’ll start getting calls asking them to sabotage websites, rather than [...]