Hello, can you please review those ads placements for my Digg-like site and tell me your honest opinion on how I can improve the CTR of the different layouts? There are 3 different layouts: The front page: http://shetoldme.com A Tag page (lists pages about the tag): http://shetoldme.com/tag/adsense An inside page: http://shetoldme.com/Business/AdSense-Secrets-Revealed There's always a big rectangle at the bottom of the pages, only the top changes. Cheers, James
I like the website a lot, i think the ad placement is good. the only way you'll find out is by testing... maybe include featured Stories on top and underneath it put text links and then a story underneath that
Thank you, I tried to beef up the vote up buttons by adding a mouse hand cursor on the button and a earth globe beneath the number of votes. Is that better? @runcheck: Do you mean adding a block on top of the ads with links to a few hand-selected featured stories?
Yeah Something like this Featured Stories Google Ads - Diapers - MakeUp - Whatever Mom Saves Baby Something along those lines, that should convert pretty good, just test different stuff and see what works well, colors, location, format
@runcheck: do you mean WRITING "Featured Stories" above adsense ads? This is not recommended at all, I can't do that! I could perhaps write "Featured Stories" then put a few links to actual stories and only then adsense ads. It's not allowed to label the ads something else than "advertisement" or "sponsored links" otherwise of course I'd do it! Since we can't write things like "related links" or "interesting links" I prefer to put nothing above ads.
How much what? money? I think you mean ctr which is not allowed to tell exactly, but let's say it was below 5% which is what I aim for, but for this site I can't do it, when on the french version with the same ad placement I get over 5%