Back in 2007, Google released a message center in Google Webmaster Tools. It was used for penalty notifications, hacks, exploits, bandwidth issues, and many other webmaster oriented technical issues.

Today, I log into my Google Webmaster Tools account to find, what appears to me, as Google Ad Planner advertisements. Now, I am a big fan of Ad Planner, it is a really neat, free tool. But it just didn’t seem incredibly webmaster related, on the technical side. I received about six of these “messages”, each for a different site.

Here is what they said:

I have some pictures here and here.

Again, this is likely useful information, but just doesn’t seem all that technically relevant to the Google Webmaster Tools area.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Tools.