review this adsense placement

I just added a new theme for my news blog. the theme I was using was too narrow and just didnt look right, although it was preset with adsense.

here is my theme I have installed now, fluid design, and adsense added by me.
http://www.sportsoutlaw.com/news/

I havent set it up to show the 468 banner from the archive view yet, waiting to see how this grows on me.

 

Your ad placement looks very good.
You theme is also very nice

 

Very nice placement over all. I would recommend to avoid "Advertise on this site". Also I think you can change the color of the title to Blue and change the link color to blue as well. In my experience blue links does a better job than the black ones

 

I'd put ad links on the top instead of the banner. Pays a lot better and gets more CTR.

 

I just recently got done with an experiment regarding that. Taking that off of my ads provided me with an immediate drop in income shortly after removing it.

 

I was thinking about that as well, thanks.

 

I have a very similar set up to you, I tried links accross the top and they bombed out.

have a look at my sig, the one on the left.

 

also you could match the top ad's color with the content better

 

good site. you gave me some tips.