Google AdSense Leaderboards vs. Skyscrapers

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  1. Fishing Forum

    Fishing Forum Active Member

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    #21
    I use skyscraper on the left hand side and seems to work

    Going to give rotating colours a go for a week to see if that makes a diff..
     
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  2. Foxy

    Foxy Chief Natural Foodie

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    #22
    This is the classic do you drive on the left or the right!

    Well do you know why?

    Your eyes naturally (that is the greater %) look to the right, therefore in the USA, and others, they thought it prudent to drive on the right so that you could see where you were in respect to the side of the road, but in the UK and others, they drove on the left so you could see the potential danger.

    On one of our sites we put the navigation on the first page on the right and then we transferred it on subsequent pages to the left leaving the right side for the information that they were expecting - this worked well and in essence it is how we now do all our sites except we do use the top for the grand navigation.
     
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    #23
    Foxy, that's fascinating. Of course the UK got backwards :)

    OWG, j/k of course ;)
     
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  4. Foxy

    Foxy Chief Natural Foodie

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    #24
    and Japan, India and all the Commonweath countries in fact a large proportion of the world really....hehehe
     
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    #25
    It's also not quite so. The form dates back to the days when traffic was normally horseback; roadside bandits--not uncommon--would come at a rider from the right side of the road, because most people are right-handed and that gave the bandits the opportunity to leap on or otherwise disable a rider's right arm. So riders traditionally kept to the left side of the road, to keep their right arms as free as possible from immediate attack.

    Why automotive traffic elsewhere eventually took to the right side is less clear. I'd guess--and this part is only my personal guess--that it was rather easier to do gear shifting with the right hand.
     
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    #26
    A leaderboard works great for me...
     
    oncameratalent, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  7. Will.Spencer

    Will.Spencer NetBuilder

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    #27
    Wow, this is an old thread!

    Leaderboards have really done poorly for me.

    What has really done well is the 336x280 rectangle. :)
     
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    #28
    For me rectangle has worked the best. Nothing to beat it.
     
    marketsnipers, Aug 1, 2008 IP
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    lboog123 Peon

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    lboog123, Aug 1, 2008 IP