When you place AdSense on your site you have to do this simple consideration: where can I place AdSense advertisements in order to realize a great result in terms of revenue without irritating my readers placing advertisements in too much strategic positions?
First time, in order to maximize my revenue, I placed an AdSense box (336 x 280) below the title of my post... Sincerely, I didn't find it a great choice in terms of readability and layout but, considering the all respect daily income, without doubt the best. But my readers didn't appreciate my "revenue-oriented" choice so, after several messages, in order to satisfy my aficionados readers, I decided to move AdSense box (336 x 280) to the end of my posts. Result...? This is the trend of my revenue in the latest days after I moved AdSense box below the text of posts:
How you can see from the picture (considering a constant traffic about 3500-4000 unique visitors/day), a disaster. I didn't report my daily income but isn't important to understand the poor trend.
Then Saturday morning I decided again to place AdSense below the title of my post, but changing AdSense box (336 x 280) with a smaller one which I find more tolerable for all my readers... Whit my big pleasure, today, just two days after I found a significant improvement on my revenue comparable with my initial daily income using 336 x 280 ads box. I hope this choice can be more "appreciated" for all my readers :)) !
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Playing with AdSense ads position
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Putting ads wight bellow the title has that disastrous effect because of one simple factor: users are more interested in the article than in the ad. For best results, put the ad in the middle or bottom of the article and compare the results.
Interesting post, Antonio, especially for those of us new to the blogging world! Thank you!
I would be interested in seeing the results from what 'anonymous' suggested! :)
At first I was loathe to use the Manage Ads feature in Adsense. Once you start using it you find it so much easier to test sizes and colours. Testing is so important for Adsense, what suits one site might not suit another. With this feature it's so quick to change everything.
I like the way you put the adsense units here on your blog. From design aspect they're blend with your theme which is good.
The Sidebar Skycrapper is OK for me, but putting AdSense under the post title is annoying because what offered there is not related to your post topic.
Cheers :)
Thanks for your tips.
I use your idea about placing adsense in the item page, but when I do it no post get show up even in homepage. Is there anything I am missing? my site is http://www.expressbraiding.com thanks for any help.
PS. I actually mess up the adsense in my template code today.