Quadrupled my CTR thanks to DP members.

I've found out that many Adsense account has been closed because some of the webmaster didn't use border to differentiate Adsense ads with the article or graphics. Due to this matter, it's good to have a visible border within the ads.

BTW, you can experiment some technique that stated in this thread from the beginning and ask Google if the technique void the TOS.

 

border around the adsense module?? or bored around the images that are next to the module?

 

Border around your Adsense Ads. You must set a visible border if there is other images located near the ads.

 

Even if the other images are in their own self-containing boxes?

 

but the problem is somtimes these text banners display 3 ads and screw the format

 

True. Or sometimes they show one huge ad.

 

Ummm... it seems that even Google itself doesn't want you to put borders around the ads, see their latest blog entry:

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/05/unobtrusive-ads-can-boost-revenue.html

 

I don't know about the latest Google Adsense Blog entry, but I have an account being disable because of this problem in February this year. Google said that it void the TOS.

 

Oh... did they specify how close you can get to the ads without having to have a border around ads?

 

Nope... they don't even specify it. Don't know why.

 

O_O this feature would be pretty cool.

 

Great Idea. Great Site.

You've moved your ads to middle of the page. Any reason why you do that?
Hows the CTR?

Regards
Casey

 

Good job ,thanks for your tip , i will try on my web

 

i would not put images by your ads
especially the ones posted above with the photoshop boxes and stuff..
i asked google about this. they said...





Hello Ryan,

Thanks for your email. In general, you're welcome to place images near
the
Google ads on your site. However, some implementations are not
permitted
by our program policies, so we ask that you exercise some caution when
choosing or placing the images.

To be specific, we ask that publishers not place misleading images near
Google ads or use images that appear to be directly associated with the
advertisers and their offerings. Such images may draw undue attention
to
the ads and prompt unintentional user clicks, thereby artificially
inflating advertiser costs. As you may know, drawing undue attention to
ads is in violation of our program policies, so we're unable to approve
the placement of all images next to Google ads.

If you choose to experiment with placing images directly next to the
ads,
I'd strongly encourage you to maintain a visible border around the ad
units to reduce the possibility of confusing users.

For additional questions, we suggest you visit our AdSense Help Center
at
https://www.google.com/support/adsense . If you're unable to find an
answer to your question on our site, please feel free to reply to this
email.

 

Yeah.. this will bring you nightmare when one day Google banned your account because of this matters. Be afraid... be very afraid.

 

That is very true. Congrats there mate. Ever since I added picture in my 4 ad unit in similar fashion it quadruples the amount of clicks.

If you put pictures above the ads, expecting a 25%-50% clicks might not be difficult for anyone. Just a tip

-Joaquin

 

Misleading. In other words if your niche is relating car insurance and you put a sexy latina above the ad...it will be a violation.

Now I got myself a new question. The google department has seen my websites and depending on the reviewer...my images can go both ways.

I will probably have to send google an email about this before I start receiving traffic.

Thanks for the update libertygone
-Joaquin

 

By reading posts by banned people, I believe that it is hard to get banned so long as you don't try to deceive your visitors or Google. In most cases, people are banned for fraudulent clicks (typically by themselves or by someone on their schoolbus). If you use ads to deceive, you can expect to be banned too.

Don't be deceptive and you should be fine.

 

Disabled because of this? It's possible there is a misunderstanding here, given your post of May 9th:

In any case, we are sorry that your account was disabled in error, if you didn't do anything wrong against the program policies.

 

LOL LOL LOL someone took the images above ads thing and missed the point a little... they took my example of pigs above the ads from my pig site and...

http://www4.all-usenet-archive.com/pages/16129.html

Put it on a site with nothing to do with pigs FOOLS!