Comments on: Positioning your Adsense Ads III

By: PerfectMoney

PerfectMoney — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:45:56 +0000

I agree with the idea of Putting ART on ADsense,blending the colour match and mixing the contrast with the “main color should be the way the art speak,Put adsense in the mind set of Blending and artful I am sure what make people respect the adsense itself and put attentions more to it,great sample for it is what techcrunch put on the top of there page,there,The adsense sit down beautifully,that what I called the ART of the Adsense

By: Ruben

Ruben — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:04:39 +0000

Darren,

Great tips. Thank you! I’ve added your blog to my blogroll.

I just started a money blog for the purpose of making money. I’m providing money tips (budgeting, saving, investing, etc.).

Still waiting for the domain name to propogate (householdmoneytree.com), but for now, you can access it via http://www.esensen.com/moneyblog. What do you think?

The Wordpress Template I’m using isn’t so well suited for ads, but I’ve finally got it to a point where I can display ads in some key areas.

Now I need to drive traffic and see what happens.

By: Richard Rinyai

Richard Rinyai — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:35:19 +0000

Hi Darren,

I actually noticed that ads on my site worked better when they were above all of my posts in the one spot. This brought my income way up.

I tested ads within my posts and the channels revealed that putting one ad code just above my posts was the best for my site – meaning the most monitization.

Thanks for the tips though,

Richard Rinyai
http://www.theprofessionalassistant.net

By: susan

susan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:23:08 +0000

Hi–This has been a good article series. I learned a lot. As I was reading I was thinking about how I feel about ads and, in general, I don’t mind them. I do have to say though that I do have a problem with “blinking” ads (like the ones on the right side up there). I find them very distracting when trying to read. For some reason my eyes want to keep moving over that way…maybe that’s the general idea, eh?:-) Anyway, that’s just my 2 cents worth!
Suan

By: kidkiller

kidkiller — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:32:40 +0000

thanks for info..i think i shud cut off my ads number..=.=”

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By: pieman

pieman — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:41:34 +0000

Appreciate your post, I’d be interested in knowing the positioning code used for in post ads. I have the GoogleAds button code but do not know what code to add to postion it. I’ve read all your posts on this topic, but this detail has thus far escaped me.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:12:45 +0000

About taking away ads and not serving three adsense ads, I would like to add that the lower your CTR, the lower your pay per click is going to be. This has something to do with Adword Smartpricing. Remember that if you have three Adsense ads on your page and the third one doesn’t get any clicks, because your reader isn’t going to click three ads or doesn’t even see the ad, because it’s in a bad position, say at the bottom of the page, the third ad is still counted as a view for the guy whose ad is shown there. Don’t want to go too deep into it, but if your ad gets seved on a website and it doesn’t receive a click, you get penalized as an Adword advertizer. This makes these advertisers mad. So Smartpricing is actually created to force publishers to cut back on the amount of Adsense ads they show.

By: Alex Ragan

Alex Ragan — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:34:41 +0000

Hm, I tried all what you write in this interesting article, but after three days I see no different than before. I have to look what I´m dooing wrong.

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Mon, 09 May 2005 11:54:44 +0000

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By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:16:16 +0000

One thing to note is that Google counts adviews as page views, so if you have three ads per page your impression count goes up by a factor of three. Your CTR goes down (even if EVERYONE clicks one ad every time your CTR is 33.3%), but don’t worry–just look at the earnings per day figure.

And like Darren did, test over multiple days taking your site’s natural traffic flow into account. The worst case situation is that you lose a few bucks–but if you work things right you can make a few more as well.

By: Eoghann Irving

Eoghann Irving — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:31:54 +0000

If you want to be sneaky about it you can use CSS to position things on your page contrary to where Adsense will find it when scanning your code.

Some of my blogs use a three column layout: sidebar1 – content – sidebar2. I use CSS to actually position them on the page. But if you look at the raw code, the content section comes first, then sidebar1 and then sidebar2.

I actually did this for search engine purposes as I wanted them to realise what was the most relevent content on my page and not focus on navigation links, but it ought to work for Adsense too.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:01:32 +0000

Hmmm… I never really thought about the “ad stealing” problem. I guess it depends on the topic. But, even then, the content adsense would have the lowest paying ads anyway. I try to stick to one adsense per page.

By: BobbyMasteria

BobbyMasteria — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:50:08 +0000

(finishing my sentence sorry) … but only one exemplary of the script fetching the ads to display.
Well I tried and it doesn’t work, one calling script per ad is required (below it).

By: BobbyMasteria

BobbyMasteria — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:43:55 +0000

So that’s why you removed the top ad from problogger.net ?
But then it’s not a matter of too many ads it’s a matter of too few advertisers.
BTW Google could allow publishers to specify the priority order of each ad, the script already check the whole page to determine the topic so it wouldn’t be hard to detect other AdSense ads – the global displaying will happen later though.
Also, I wonder what if there’s several ads but only