I've been reading this thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=17104 I'm highly interested, and only started to now take action on it. I have not read all of the posts in the thread; however, I've noticed that some of the first to start the adsense image trick, now no longer have them on the page. Can someone please elaborate on this? (sorry - I've looked, but that's an impossibly long thread!) Additionally, if this method is still viable, I had one other idea, which may have been mentioned, but my search skills are not good enough. Is it possibly (for any of you coders out there) to have a mySQL/ PHP script, that would read the keywords in a the ads after they are loaded, and insert an appropriately tagged image, or for everything else, a "default" image? For many, if not most of us, our adsense content is fairly predictable. In my site for instance, my keywords are "cad design engineering." I get an ad once in awhile for aerospace jobs. For this, it would be perfect if the term "aerospace", when it appears in the title, it would be tied to an image bank, that would display an airplane image. For everything else, it would be a CAD workstation image. For advanced variables, you could disallow double use of an image, instead replacing it with an alternate image, if no unique database keywords come up. I don't know if this is feasible. It's just an idea. I'd love it if someone who *actually knows* how to any of this, could step forth. If not, sorry for blowing wind out the wrong hole... And, again, my apologies if any of this has been discussed, already. Between the above quoted thread, and the interview with "Nintendo" ( ) thread, I've been reading DP forums for days on end... Thank you. P.S. - Nintendo - are you related to Napoleon Dynamite?
I think everybody tried it and it worked at first. But the benefit declined over time as more people tried this. I think it still works, but the Web has adapted it's ad blindness to this new trick.
Well, I'm not a big Adsense money maker, anyway. Whereas some people are looking for income, I'm just looking for handouts. Anything is an improvement on my site. So, what actually happened in the end? Did turning off the images result in a higher CTR, just as turning them on initially did? BTW - I've noticed that one of the first sites to use the images, actually removed Adsense, altogether... (why?) Thanks for the input.
I think what Randy is saying to you is that it doesn't make much of a difference now either way. I personally wouldn't put a lot of effeort into it. If you can try it easily go for it. If you are talking about the site I think you are they were banned from Adsense, but it was unrelated to the image thing.