Running 1/2/3 items on your page, does it effect quality of links ?

Hi,
first real post/topic, please be gentle

Currently I use

1. 1 link unit
   google_ad_format = "468x15_0ads_al";
2. 1 square ad unit
   google_ad_format = "300x250_as";
3. 1 small banner
   google_ad_format = "468x60_as";

So my question is, does anyone have any theories of using 1/2 or 3 ads ? I was thinking of maybe putting #1 & #3 on random, so they are displayed 20% of the time. To see if that will bring up the level of ads that are served in the main #2 ad. I get much lower click rates for #1 & #3 anyway, so if I only added them in sometimes, would I have a higher value for when the main ad is clicked ?

Theories/Past Experience/ welcomed !

Thanks,
p.

 

It affects the adverts shown as you are showing more, so some of the bottom feeders will appear.

But generally, I see more income, not less from showing a good mix of ad sizes on a webpage.

 

In general the square (or nearly square) ad-units do perform better. Google even has something on that in their adsense help. The widest skyscraper and the leaderboard also outperform the other sizes. Still the wisest thing to do is to make sure it fits your design and then pick from the ones I just mentioned which fits your design best.

 

Hi
My earnings per click went up due to taking out some of my ads. It also made the pages look much better.
I was getting clicks antwhere from .03 - $1+, now they are usually around the $1 mark, with one or two less clicks for the same traffic.
Hope that helps
DD

 

I recently added a LU to a page with a regular ad. The amount went up for a day, then dropped hard after that. It took away from the regular ad clicks.

I tested this many times and the end result was to remove the LU and go with one ad.

 

Does anyone have an idea how I can write some PHP to say only show one of them every 10 page loads ?

And how will this effect google when they go to spider the page for that content, and then they see that their ad isn't actually called on that page ?

 

Set a session cookie with a variable.

For each page load, read session cookie.

If cookie counter <10 then incrememnt cookie counter ++

Else, reset cookie counter to zero and display ad unit on webpage.

 

why dont' you make a small reasearch on that?

And don't forget to use channels.

So, you will get better idea.

 

Thanks for the tips, I will try and see how easy this is to set-up and I'll report back here. Thanks !