Hi, I have recently 'upgraded' my site with a new design. Smaller adsense ads used as the bigger ones were a bit too obvious and easily overlooked by my visitors (in my opinion). Would love to hear some thoughts about problems / look / feel / placement etc and any advice would be highly appreciated. http://www.paulsquiz.com TIA, Dave
I think the Adsense needs to be better integrated as far as design goes and I would add an extra box. It is hard to get targeted ads when the text is so general, so why not section target a block of text to bring in ads related to what a visitor to your site may be interested in (other quiz sites, etc). Good luck with the redesign.
Nice design livingingermany. But as Rod says "Adsense needs to be better integrated as far as design goes" its quite right.
I think you can put adsense horizontal ads on top of page which will help you to increase CTR as well add link unit at the bottom of page too.
Great!! Thanks for your advice Guys/Gals, I also noticed that my 'quiz' keyword was kinda being ignored by the ad generator. So, I swapped my English/German quiz links from the right side to the left side in the hope that the keywords will also appear befor the adsense code as the HTML code is read, and that seems to have done the trick, now all the ads (that I see anyway) seem to be quiz related. What I didn't want were ads related to the Latest Resources titles as they are currently soccer-based, so with those now over to the right side, the ads don't seem to be too much biased towards those words. Also I put the link ads in at the bottom although I feel they will be ignored down there, will have to think about that one. What I don't like to do is hide the link ads by making them look like my menu system as then I lose visitors (tried that before and noticed a huge drop in page count and no click through). As for another adsense block, that's something I also thought about doing some time ago BUT I really cannot think of a free space to put it where it will be noticed. I have the large rectangle in the middle of my content on each content page and perhaps I will add another after each content item before the comments box. Thanks again for your advice, fingers crossed I can make some income out of this site, currently it's in the sub-dollar-per-day-Am-I-sure-its-worth-continung ballpark.
It is excellent I say. It isn't even visible that it's adsense. No need to change I say , very good indeed!
Looks good. Some of the quizes could use some sprucing up. I looked at some of the history ones and some of the questions are too vague to even attempt an answer.