Interesting Adsense Click Thru Stats

hey guys, thought i would share a interesting click thru stat of mine... I run several blogs and I've been messing with different adsense layouts for each. With my site about droid (www.aboutdroid.com) i barley get 300 uniques a month but i have earned more than one of my sites with 3,000 uniques a month. Click thru is over 4%! Its such a ugly layout but it gets the job done...

 

The ugliest layout give the best CTR
In your case, the layout is not horrible and the ad placement is good, although personally I wouldn't wait until receiving an email from adsense before putting something between the title of the article and the ads. I don't want to risk the email saying that the site had ads disabled, because then it can be hard to get it enabled again.

 

haha true.

so your saying having nothing above the ads up top is against the google TOS?

 

mean make some thing people like or dislike work?

 

No, having the title of the article is not nothing.
You can have nothing above the ads. You can have "advertisement"or "sponsored links". You can have links, or some paragraph not talking about the ads.

But having the title of the article can be seen as labelling the ads. At least that's what told me an email from adsense one day regarding one of my site where I had the same thing as you are. They gave me 72hours to correct it. Sometimes they don't give those 72hours. What I did is simply add the tags of the post between the title and the adsense block, and it was then ok.

I know you and I are not the only one doing that, but now I don't do it anymore exactly like that.

 

lol..
That's not a ugly layout and I must add that the placements are also pretty good.

 

I think if your worried about Google not liking your placement of the title (for some reason), you can simply wrap your adsense in a div and apply a css rule to cause it to float left. then the text will wrap on the right side of the ad and continue down as it normally does now and that solves your problem.

aboutdroid.com/android-os/google-android-tablet-imminent/

On the above page, just put your adsense code into a div and float it left, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the result

 

I'd like to add to the message from rickywh that you can also push down the adsense block a little with a neat css trick. On the example I give I start with a float right, but it could be a float left without problem:
http://blog-money-wiki.com/blog/200...le-trick-to-insert-an-image-within-a-text.php

 

You're using an adsense optimize layout from doshdosh I guess. It's really optimized for adsense I guess.