I own a gaming website, just NEWS, no one can play games, but BEFORE the change, I struggled to obtain a ctr of 1% Now I've done the change, ctr is now 0.65 - 0.80 which is obviously dreadful. I make around $10 - $15 a day with around 40 - 60 clicks with around 4,000 - 6,000 visits per day, 90% traffic from the search engines, visitors get the info they search for. I've noticed, adsense skyscrapper ads perform terribly, and 336x280 and the leaderboard 728x90 performs the best. EDIT - I HAVE REMOVED THE SECOND AD ON THE SIDEBAR, BECAUSE IT HAD A DREADFUL CTR OF 0.07 which 1,400 impressions Here below is a view of my site. All ads before site change was JUST IMAGE ADS - NO TEXT. Now I've changed all ads except for in post ad to text and and image ads. All those ads show on the homepage, however, the second sidebar ad doesn't show up on the sidebar when you click on a article, instead, a 336x280 image only ad shows up in the middle of the post. Again, all these ad postions are new except for the leaderboard ad. PLEASE HELP, I SHOULD BE MAKING OVER $1000 a month with the traffic im getting! (over 130,000) pageviews per month.
On my site I use three 728X90 text ads and they perform great. Text ads will always outperform image ads in my opinion, so I would suggest changing the image ad to a text one.