Please review the two pages

Would request all the experts/gurus here to please review the following two pages.

Page 1
Page 2

Which do you prefer from 'Physical Appearance' and why?

All help appreciated.

 

I prefer the first page because the adsense ads are really obvious on page 2.. which is distracting.

 

i think if you remove the adsense decorator, it i´ll better!

 

I also prefer the first page, but I think the page is not well balanced. You can widen the text area, and remove the Google ads vertical banner.

 

You are referring to page 2?

 

I am not an expert/guru...but here goes:

Page 1: The top link ads and in-post block are nice. If I were you, I would move the 'Useful Links' at the side to top and not include the ads in the side. Because I read that the higher the number of ads, the lesser a click will fetch you as the ads are competing against each other or something.

Page 2: Perhaps an image ad at the top will be better. I like the shadow effect to the side ads.

Finally, my vote goes to page 1.