Quadrupled my CTR thanks to DP members.

I hope someone corrects me if I am wrong, but...

1. Going thru your pages, some of the pictures above the ads were too relevant to the ad (ad for pda's had a picture of a pda above it). I am not sure that allowed.

2. I *think* there needs to be a border between the two, but I am not 100%.

Sorry for my half-assed, non-commitial post.

 

I was reading a thread about this just before I opened this one and the best bet is for the user to email Google with a screen shot and ask them. They will let you know if it needs a visible border.

 

Great work. Blended adsense ads are really they key. You want to make them look transparent to the end user as ads and images like you have shown us here is a great way to do so. The first time I blended adsense into my site I had a popular marketing forum cover my story and my click through rates are great. Tutorial sites use this image method a lot. You can see what I did here: birdfluvirus.net

 

Cory, that is sweet!!! I would also make the story title a link so that when the user runs thier mouse over it it is uniform with the ad above it...

well done my friend, well done.

 

Thanks, It was an SEO experiment. Threw up a 1 page site in about 2 hours and SEO'd it to the best of my knowledge. Bird flu really took off and one month I made over $130 US on adsense on it so it was a good 2 hours of work Bird flu will be around for a while yet. Used to rank #2 on yahoo for Bird Flu but have since decreased in the ranks. I'm going to build out the site and see how well it can do and try to get high rankings again

 

Cory, I do not mean to be an alarmist, but...do you think that 'click here to read to stooooooooooooory' can be considered misleading? I personally think it is genius, at first I wondered how you changed the ad to say that..lol

add: I would also get the font to match the adsense font as i did on my site.

 

Looks good Cory. Your page isn't looking right in Firefox though. The ads are overlapping the content right under it.

 

WoW I forgot to draw the tail after reading what that means I believe the PIG ha ha .......ps.. I wonder what some pics of super models over the google ads would do.

 

Critters,

I have just submitted to Google for Adsense. I have some questions for you. Do the ads in Adsense change from time to time on your site? If so, how do you keep up with the images you place above the ads?

Is this a silly question?

 

Ditto!

Col

 

Best to wait for G to reply

Yes they do, and page 42:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=712241&postcount=839

 

Thanks mate! Mission accomplished and I will address this when I have some time to think about what images I will place.

Col

 

great trick

 

Now... the blended image beside adsense look good. But if your site is SEO'd enough, that don't give you higher income via Adsense. You just need a little more traffic that you can get. Do try www.digg.com or www.slashdot.org to publish you articles and get more traffic.

One of my blogs got more that 2000 unique traffic per day but sometimes can go upto 5000 unique traffic per day. I also found that all this ideas in this thread can also be implemented on Clicksor.

 

hi guys i am a noob in site building . somebody please tell me how can increase my CTR .Please also tell me some good placing for my Ads

 

Just read this thread from beginning. Thats is it!

 

I just noticed that this thread has been viewed 94,763 times!

WTG Critters!

 

There is no specific way to increase your CTR, only what you can always do is writing more technically specific website or blog.

 

really very nice site. and i like your nice gesture of giving password to dp readers. green one for u

 

First off, another thanks so much for the incredible information, and means for others to share similarly important information.

I tried playing with AdSense on a friend of mines site that's currently under construction ( www.pspatlas.com ). I'm primarily worried about the bottom ads with picture to left and right. Is there enough space between the ads and pics?

Additionally I've heard it better to place ads above the fold. Would you recommend the same on this site? These can currently be found on any page besides the index, below the fold and above the headings.