We all know good adsense placement can make the CTR go high as much as 30-40%. I started this thread just so we could all share our best templates that help in CTR. If you do not want to share your niche just put up a screenshot of the template and mention where to get it. A demo wouldn't hurt either. I will update this post with some of my favorite and ones that get 30-40% CTR. Cheers
I would love to get some feedback on this issue too. I'm looking at starting a few more blogs with content for adsense, and would like a good template. Anyone have any ideas?
yeah this is a great idea.. i wanna start a new blog and was wondering which template style to use too.
hxxp://www.cricnews. in/ This site has a veru high CTR template but I can't locate the theme anywhere www. cricnews. in/wp-content/themes/theme06/style.css This only says theme06
1) This is against the TOS 2) There is no reason for me to disclose my high earning template to the world for free. There are things that are better kept secret
Discussing ad placement and templates is not against adsense tos, they even show you on their website where to place ads for best effect. And they have a success page google.com/adsense/static/en_GB/Success.html?sourceid=asos&subid=ww-ww-et-resource_box&medium=link you could check those sites out for placement ideas. And a guide on optimization showing the best ad positions services.google.com/adsense/breeze/optimization/?sourceid=asos&subid=ww-ww-et-demos_guides&medium=link
30-40% isn't a realistic CTR for a real site and doubt anyone has a site that over a few thousand impressions (minimum you need for it to be statistically significant) has a CTR that high. There's more to CTR than just the template, I have sites using the same AdSense optimised template with significantly different CTRs, these changes are due to content and traffic type. A site with highly targeted content will tend to result in ads that are relevant to every page of the site and so if that site gets a lot of targeted search engine traffic will tend to result in a highish CTR. Put another way if every page of your site is about Red Widgets, all your traffic comes from searches looking for Red Widgets and your AdSense ads are advertising Red Widgets there's going to be a lot of clicks (especially if they didn't find exactly what they wanted). Conversely a site with a diverse amount of unrelated content results in ads that aren't always relevant to the page. This site http://www.morearnings.com/ for example has no defined content, some pages are about SEO, others affiliate marketing and even have a few pages reviewing World of Warcraft (WOW) ebooks. This results in some parts of the site not having a well defined theme (like the home page has no theme) and so ads are less relevant. Looking at the ads on the home page I see- In the first ad unit: one ad about domain registration, 2 ads about WOW gold. Sidebar ad unit: WOW gold again. Footer ad unit: singe ad about web hosting. My site covers all these subjects, but the home page is highly unlikely to pull World of Warcraft traffic and so most of these ads aren't going to be clicked. Viewing the ads on http://www.morearnings.com/2007/12/25/targeting-adsense-ads/ I see a lot of ads about AdSense, making money and one about WordPress themes (got free AdSense themes on the site as well). This page results in a far higher CTR than the home page. Comparing this to http://www.elvincountry.com/ which has highly targeted content about travel and all the AdSense ads are relevant on every page and this results in a MUCH higher CTR than the other site. Both sites use the same ad layout, one ad unit in the middle of the main article (above the fold) and sidebar ad (below the fold) and an ad just above the footer making a triangle of ads. I could increase CTR further by removing the borders, but I don't go in for the mis clicked designs. I use these templates and general ad unit layout on 50+ WordPress installations and other sites and the CTR varies between sites for the reasons set out above. There's also the actual content, this site http://www.free-recipes.co.uk/ has a relatively low CTR (below 4%) since visitors are finding what they are looking for. Why would they click away from a recipe when they found what they are looking for? Obviously not all traffic find exactly what they are looking for, so there's still clicks away, but not as many as on a site like http://www.elvincountry.com/ that lacks detailed content that visitors can act one (visitors almost find what they are looking for resulting in a decent CTR). Yes you can create AdSense optimised templates, but that in itself won't determine your CTR. In my experience for a reasonably well setup site 5% CTR should be aimed for. If you have everything going for you, you might get as high as 10% (I have 10% sections, but not whole sites). David Law
I think 30% to 40% is somewhat unrealistic. I get around 8% which I consider to be very good. Higher than that might be possible but reaching the values you mentioned seems a little unrealistic.