After a reading a post on some blog, I just realized that Ezine Articles has recently made changes to the positioning of their Adsense ads. Before, there was a title and right under it the content would start. Now, there is the title, then an ugly block of Adsense ads, and only then the content comes... I believe this is gonna kill CTRs...
You are right. It is a bad thing for article writers. These guys only thing about themselves. They don't give a dam about us who waste out time writing those articles. Articlebase is even worse. They have adsense just before the bio box, that is really terrible.
That is annoying... I get some really valuable traffic from some of my EZAs that I've spent a lot of time getting to rank high. The good thing is I just looked at some of my most important EZAs and the AdSense ads are all really unrelated so I'm hoping they won't draw too much attention away.
yeah, it's interesting ... i don't know if i'm diff from "normal" people, but i find that when i look at a page like that i don't even look at those ads ... like, i'm trying to search out the content, so that's what my eyes go to ... so hopefully readers are like that too ... i.e. they haven't clicked on the article to read the ads ... but yeah, kind of annoying all the same
I think their adsense revenue was dropped, sure they need to do this instead of laying-off some employees
They could have slashed their premium membership prices instead. Three times as many people may use it, if it only cost $35. That'd probably bag them more money than adsense.
Actually, we don't have any ads between the article and the resource box. We haven't for a while now. Talia Community Product Manager at ArticlesBase
Hi Talia, ArticleBase is very good, but there is only one bad thing with it, you don't allow DoFollow links at source box. If you can change that, I'll give all my coming articles to you. You may think about activate dofollow links after certain number of submitted articles say after 50 articles. You can also accept only unique articles that haven't been published anywhere else, but dofollow links is very needed for us.
Hi Shand0, I know what you mean. Unfortunately, we unable to make articles DoFollow at this time for reasons I cannot go into. I have addressed this issue on a previous thread, so I won't spam about it again. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1310078&highlight=articlesbase+clickbank Thanks for your compliments, by the way.
Yah, many guys just copy, copy and still copy from others and then create new ones. But most of the content is the same. I suggest that you report this to Ezine. When they find something same, then directly redirect the traffic to your articles, thus these guys can't get anything.
I don't think recession had any impact on them. There are several business which use recession as an excuse to layoff employees and do other cost savings. Already, there was too much adsense on the ezinearticles. I have an average of 25% CTR for my articles. They charge $100 a month from premium members and have their pages filled with adsense. They are too greedy and are focusing on milking the cow as much as they can
Initially they have had a block with seven ads, after people getting angry on another forum they reduce them to two. However, it is still bad in my view. Also, has anyone notice a drop in views for new articles?