Just got approved to adsense..this is my first attempt at placing ads on a site. Please take a look at how I did, and let me know how I can improve.. www.greedycrab.com Thanks a lot!
interesting ad placements and well blended ads.. I'd say stick with these placements for now check ur CTR for a week.
Not bad, however, I'm not fond of the header link unit, it kind of ruins the theme itself in my eyes. Maybe blend it in, make it white, or add a background to it like a nice rounded box?
The placement should be ok but it seems that the ads doesn't look blend in to me. Since you are using 2 ad units, 1 placed on the right side bar and another on the left, and both using different color scheme, just compare using channels and find out which one performs better
You can make a rounded box or something in PhotoShop, or even Paint, upload it, add it to the css, and then put a DIV around the adsense so that the image would be behind it. Kind of like the sidebar ad on the left.