your suggestions

can anyone see my site and review my adplacement? i have been changing the adformats for a while. my traffic is too low. so your suggestions welcome. view my site from the link in the profile page.

 

on the link ads (not the text ads) put them on top near where the blogger search bar is, do a five link unit, along with blending the green with your border, then white as the text. The reason I say this is because I learned once that when you use blogger, if you place it right near that search bar, or replace the search bar with it, people are most likely to click, even if it is on accident as they try to view the next blogs. hope this helps

 

the problem with placing the text links at top is it will go up above the blogger bar. thats very problematic only people with css knowledge can do that. is there anything else i could do regarding adsense placement ?

 

In response to your PM, here we go:

1. Switch to a Minima Template

2. Hide the Blogger Nav Bar
Add the following code directly beneath the <style type="text/css"> (which is located at the top of the template):
#b-navbar {
height:0px;
visibility:hidden;
display:none
}

3. Move the navigation column to the right
Change this

/* Content
----------------------------------------------- */
@media all {
#content {
width:660px;
margin:0 auto;
padding:0;
text-align:left;
}
#main {
width:410px;
float:left;
}
#sidebar {
width:220px;
float:right;
}
}

to this

/* Content
----------------------------------------------- */
@media all {
#content {
width:660px;
margin:0 auto;
padding:0;
text-align:left;
}
#main {
width:410px;
float:right;
}
#sidebar {
width:220px;
float:left;
}
}

4. Add a properly blended leaderboard in between your header and body, along with a skyscraper in the navigation column.

5. Most importantly: don't expect tons of revenue from a personal blog. I know it sucks to hear this, but it's just a fact of life.

 

Hey Tyler,

The hiding of the navbar is not working for Blogger Beta Blogs. You know of a fix?

Col

 

Hmm, I haven't even looked at Blogger Beta yet. This hack might be worth a try:

http://bloggeratto.blogspot.com/2006/05/hovering-peek-boo-blogger-navbar.html

FBG,

To answer the question you asked in your second PM, the revenue you are generating is normal. In order to improve this, you should: optimize your template, increase your traffic and try as much as possible to improve the targeting of your ads.

 

Hmmmm. Seems to be a lot of work just to get rid of the navbar. I think I'll wait for an easier option.

Thanks mate!

Col

 

ok i will do as you said. thanks. tyler.

 

Here's a much easier option:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=165992

 

Is it ITLY or IDLY ?

 

http://itly.blogspot.com/

 

btw, this is the best trick around, at least of all the ones i've seen:

how to hide / get rid of blogger nav bar in the new blogger