Quadrupled my CTR thanks to DP members.

My ctr went from 2% to 5.9% following the advice in this thread plus the advice of a friend who told me to use the 728 leader board under my navigation.

 

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

my ctr was a% on 1st of this month....

following the advice in this thread ONLY, it is at a*4% today and CPM is 3 times the amount - in 27 days - is not a bad turnaround eh

done, critter

 

Good news, but I suggest you edit your post and put in % changes not actual figures as posting CTR or Earnings or CPM or Clicks from your adSense account on public forums is a big no-no

Nice increase tho, your wellcome

 

It looks nice. But do google approve that way of making the ad look less "ad-like" ?

 

i did this:

http://hatethatfrog.desktopcreatures.com

and emailed google who said:

 

That is great! Nice layout, frog linked to image of phone and good site design.

Give yourself a pat on the back! As for your signature; very true!

 

I've been putting together a php class that outputs the ad tables with images (randomly), and also will rotate the placement around the page. Not sure if I want to make it a paid script or a give me a link script or just make it open source. It's not quite ready for prime time just yet, but if you want to see it in action, send me a PM and I'll send you a URL to a test page I have up. (I don't want to live link it because it's a page I have up to test a redesign of my site).

Before I let anyone have it, I want it to have the following functionality that I haven't built:
* Weighted randomness for ad placement (top banner 50% likely to show up, bottom banner 20%, nested in text 30%, etc.) and layout (pictures above ads, below ads, on side of ads, or no pictures) [I need to figure out how to weight randomness though ]
* Easier configuration for ad-types per position (currently hardcoded for my site)
* a couple of new layouts (instead of 4 pictures over a banner, 1 wide one, etc.)

I'm also hoping to build in the following features eventually:
* data tracking to show how many ads have been displayed to a user and have some intelligence as to ad placement and type. (i.e. frequent visitors less ads, but occasionally one that really stands out)
* monitor google ad-clicks and output the most effective ad formats intelligently.

 

PHPadsnew will do. But you probably have heard about this before.

 

You should always give it away (share)

Try this asp randomizer for your pictures. Table will need adjustment.



<%
Do Until PictureSet <> Session("Picture") and PictureSet > 0
Randomize ' Reseed.
PictureSet = Int((4 * Rnd) + 1) ' Generate random value between 1 and 4.
Loop
Session("Picture") = PictureSet

Select Case PictureSet
Case 1
Pic1 = "relaxing1.jpg"
Pic2 = "relaxing2.jpg"
Pic3 = "relaxing3.jpg"
Pic4 = "relaxing4.jpg"
Case 2
Pic1 = "relaxing5.jpg"
Pic2 = "relaxing6.jpg"
Pic3 = "relaxing7.jpg"
Pic4 = "relaxing8.jpg"
Case 3
Pic1 = "relaxing9.jpg"
Pic2 = "relaxingA.jpg"
Pic3 = "relaxingB.jpg"
Pic4 = "relaxingC.jpg"
Case 4
Pic1 = "relaxingD.jpg"
Pic2 = "relaxingE.jpg"
Pic3 = "relaxing5.jpg"
Pic4 = "relaxing9.jpg"
End Select
%>

<table width="728" height="200" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="135" height="84">
<img src="/green/<%=Pic1%>" width="125" height="82">
</td>
<td width="185" height="84">
<img src="/green/<%=Pic2%>" width="125" height="82" align="right">
</td>
<td width="235" height="84" align="center">
<img src="/green/<%=Pic3%>" width="123" height="82">
</td>
<td width="173" height="84">
<img src="/green/<%=Pic4%>" width="125" height="82" align="left">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="728" colspan="4" height="90">
<-- your adsense code goes here -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>



/green/ will need to be changed to whatever directory holds your images.

I'm working on a PHP version and the table. I'll post it once I'm done.

 

A php version would be great...

 

Well, even I did similar at www.webhostrank.info

and google gave their ok on the same. For sure, since then have seen a significant improvement in my revenues.

 

Yes, for the 99th time Google said it is OK to have images above, under, next to your ads.

Just dont go making images of flashing arrows saying "click here"

 

What if I just had 4 red arrows that moved up and down?

 

Thats so crazy it just might work!
and get you banned quicker than you can say "google"

 

Ah, but they don't say "click here"

 

dont make me quote googles TOS again... oooooooooo.... nooooooooooo....

 

Then I'll just point the arrows the opposite way (up when the arrows are above the ad, and down when the arrows are below the ad). It's like saying no, don't click here

 

heheh, wansnt there a thread about people saying "do not click my ads which give me money and help keep this site running" ?

 

This is a great post. Thank you for the great information.