What kind of background did you use for your adsense site to gain the most CTR?

What kind of background did you use for your adsense site to gain the most CTR?? I heard fancy background will lower your CTR?? True?

 

There is recently a "study" from infolinks which gives some facts about their top 200 highest publishers:
http://metrics.infolinks.com/2012/11/07/designed-to-monetize/
Doesn't say much, but it is relevant, common sense really. After rules are made to be broken

 

James, I want to ask you something whether to put images above the fold or below the fold? Images may attract attention and lure user attention away from adsense ads above the fold too. Should I put embed video? or I put the embeded video.. should I put above and below the fold?

 

I think having a nice image can reduce the bounce rate, that is people leaving your website to go back where they came from. Since the image in itself will not make them go away (clicking on the image will do nothing, or make them go to another page of your site) it will not reduce your adsense CTR since the people are still on your page. A visitor glancing at an image will never reduce your CTR as much as a visitor leaving your site

So yes, the advice of infolink to have one interesting image above the fold is good.
Then for videos it's a little different, although if it is not a youtube video there's no chance it can make the visitor suddenly want to leave your site and go to youtube for their hourly fix, so the videos can be below the fold as part of the content, it's good to have videos because the web is multimedia, so when you have videos, images, text, etc.. It makes an interesting page where users can spend more time on.

 

Really, but adsense pros from warriorforum asked me to put images below the fold as images attract attention to it. Their attention should be lured to adsense ads instead.

 

Well, if adsense pros from warriorforum said so.. what can I say? They must be right.
Did you ask them for ID?

 

Then should I put images above the fold or below the fold?

 

Try in the middle, just on the fold line

 

http://www.warocks.com/home-remedies-for-acne-scars/

How is my website ? This works?

 

Didn't work on me. I didn't click on adsense. I can't speak for others.

 

What should I do for that web page to increase CTR?

 

Want to laugh? Or cry? I don't have acne scar, but imagine I had, now look at the ads and tell me why I should click on any of them?
http://awesomescreenshot.com/07bm0oa10

But what you can do simply to increase CTR is:
add 3 link units
add 2 adsense for search boxes

 

So my website ads is not irrelevant at all? This cannot be ... my website in my browser shown all relevant ads to me...

Link unit may not be easy to make money using adsense need 2 clicks
adsense search boxes, as I tested this will not work well, and you earned 50% of the adsense revenue.

 

OK, so you removed everything? So that you can be sure not to earn anything from them. Clever thinking.

 

So how can I make the ads relevant, it shown relevant in my browser but irrelevant in your browser ??

 

James please help me, so now I found out why I got so low CTR.

 

I think is GEO-location targeting, in my browser the ads showing acne scars ads which are relevant to my content. But you seen different ads ? How can I solve this?

 

Don't worry about it. You have more important things to worry about. Like having more than 1 article on your site. Or not having only 1 article which is a copied and pasted job. Many things indeed.

 

How can I make the ads more relevant to other countries??

 

James, I really want make my ads relevant to other countries other than mine in SG first before adding any more content any tips?