Quadrupled my CTR thanks to DP members.

I went to your site to see your vertical treatment of the images and AdSense ads... and I was MORE impressed with your ingenious layout!

You have managed to make your navigation look like an adblock... and the horizontal adlinks and ad unit next to the images look more like CONTENT. That is awesome. Glad Google gave you the "all clear", too. How cool!

 

Actually at first I thought I was in a wrong way doing it, but when Google said it's fine.... Ohhhh!!!!! I was really thankful.... with regards to the performance of this TrendSetter Blog..... I am really satisfied...

 

I saw this being used on a site recently but didn't put 2 and 2 together. Thanks for giving me 4. I am testing it out on my name search site.

 

Interesting - not sure if you guys have seen it, but Google is playing around with ad formats - a 728 banner can now display 1 ad, 3 ads, or 4 ads according to my experience so far - which causes potential alignment issues for those that are aligning 4 images up expecting it to be 4.

 

thank you for the information

 

I've seen this on different formats: they display sometimes less ads than they should - but I explained it as Google didn't have enough advertisements...

 

I don't think it is to do with not enough ads, it is something to do with an algo that serves the best paying ads. I'm too tired and lazy to find you the notice about it but I know I read that somewhere.

 

If you log in to adsense, there's a notice about it on the Reports overview page.

Something to the effect of:
AdSense now optimizes your ad units on the fly, to present the ideal number of the most relevant ads available! Read the What's New page for details

 

Okay, I have a post about that which you can find at my News and Journal Blog (I don't know if is just okay to refer you to my blog)... but i will post again here.

 

WOW u give me a great idea

 

OK, but read the whole thread (especially post #442 on) and especially inform yourself about recent Google policy changes regarding images near ads.

 

Critter, I just visited your site and I noticed that you had removed the pics above the Google ads. Why? Did Google tell you to stop?

 

Maybe he wants to increase his CTR by making it look different than everyone elses? LOL.

 

Well, Critters seems to be doing some testing about eCPM:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=263379#post263379

 

Correct, will post results soon. A whole month of no images above ads

 

Welcome to DP, RenFromPenn. I am also curious about this, Critters? Did they ask you to remove images?

 

I removed them to see the change it would make to CTR, and CPM.
No they did not ask me to remove them

 

Kwewl! I thought I had read somewhewre on DP that Google advertisers were complaining about this . Requesting that AS users use more generic images, i dunno?

 

is anyone using the direct transfer (beta) to your account?

 

Yes, I am. Works fine for UK recipients.