Many people here focus a lot on ad blendingand consider that a great way to "hide" the ads so that people would click more or less accidentally. My experience on this, followed by an example: - If you get loads of traffic with nicely blended ads followed by lots of clicks; Would that bring you closer to be a smart pricing victim since most of those clicks would not be converted into sales etc? I would say, get visitors interested in your content and highlight your ads in a nice way. I have tested this on one of my pages and my click percentage actually went up by 1% over 1 month and the cpm doubled. I would have guessed that click percentage would drop before i did this, but thats not the case here. Anyone else with experience from this?
I have found that with increased blending there was a drop in EPC but it is far outweighed by the increase in the number of clicks - so I personally find blending to be extremely beneficial.
there is no need to hide quality ads that are relevant to the content of the page... in fact, you want to bring attention to the TITLE of the ad, so that it'll generate honest clicks by qualified prospects.
I agre with you. Blending ads could result in smart pricing which will hurt you in the long run... p.l.u.r.
Guess that's what happened with my experiment then. It has a lot of relevant quality ads so no need to hide them. I don't remember a click under 1/2$.