Quadrupled my CTR thanks to DP members.

Nice ad implementation.
Btw TradezMark, what're you trying to say?

 

These tips are gold - I implemented them for 728x90 and 300x250 creatives and got similar results. Yay!

 

should have asked for a percentage of all revenue increases in my first post

Congrats on the improvement, but never get complacent.. keep developing your content n stuff.

 

The best tip i have read.Thanks a lot!

 

Congratulations there Critter. That is some increase

 

Hey Critters - great stuff!

I used this tip on my travel site & doubled the CTR. Very nice.

The pictures I used had all different backgrounds & looked pretty ugly though, so I wrote a small app which will blend the edges of an image into the background. This really gives a professional look. I have posted it for free here (you can also see the link in my sig).

Thanks again.

 

Nice stuff burgerking!

 

Critters, I took a cue from you, and this is my latest version of your tip.

www.thecramerreport.com

 

Thats excellent tcr, lets us know if your ctr goes up.

 

I really like how that looks also Pentium.

Though I have a question regarding that style of advertisement. How are you to accurately predict which units will be displayed? With that, how would you coordinate correct pictures with correct ads?

 

I have personally tested this and besides consolidating bg color, txt color and removing borders, images has been the most dramatic change ive made.

If you are not having success with the leaderboard, try it with the large rectangle. place a horiz image with 3-4 small thumbs to the left of the adsense. it has worked wonders for me.

 

Very well coded, did you send it to Google to confirm that mixing internal links with ad units in that way is OK with them? Blurring the boundaries to the extent you have may go in violation of the TOS? If you have not asked, prob best to email them with a link to your page asking if it is OK.

 

This thread is going to have a 1 year anniversary soon. Can it make it to 1000 replies by the end of May?

AmCy

 

This thread really helps me alot. Thanks to all the contributers.

Specially Chitters and Amcy.org

Chaos

 

Critters, yes I asked Google to verify the site's compliance and was told that I am within the ToS. Not bad, huh?

 

it would have been difficult for them to say otherwise, since their focus would be more on those "click my ads" kind of thing on a offending site.

So has your CTR gone up, TCR?

 

I must be honest with you , I do not really know. WIth a small amount of traffic, it has been pretty high. As my traffic increases, it remains the same (give or take a few points), even though it is my understanding that as your traffic increases, the ctr would go down. It would be impossible to quadruple my ctr like Critter's

 

well, now that your site is well blended, time to build up your traffic i guess.

good luck.

will drop in time to time

 

Just did the same technique to my gopc.com site... let's hope the trend holds true.

THIS JUST IN... brand new clicks within 10 minutes after doing this change. Could be a coincidence, I don't know.. but it sure SOUNDS good!

Thanks for the great hint!

RD

 

your ads are cut off towards the end.
might need to look into it.