Comments on: Playing with Adlink Units

By: wwinfo

wwinfo — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:35:15 +0000

Been looking at those for my site, but they might not quite fit. Also I am not sure if I want users to be fooled into clicking the links, thinking they were navigation.

Let us know if your CTR increases.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:30:24 +0000

I was looking down by your search box at first, very interesting placement indeed.

By: Quick Online Tips

Quick Online Tips — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:41:36 +0000

Interesting placement. Covers your logo improperly though.

By: Shai Coggins

Shai Coggins — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:53:02 +0000

I completely missed it as well. I had to go look for it. I’d probably agree with Greg on this and maybe try under the 3 block if that one doesn’t work well.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:39:40 +0000

Its interesting that I saild straight over them – maybe I’m just blind to ads? OR, maybe its that I’m so used to looking at the orang’y tag/headline followed by black text that the all black text advert subconciously was ignored.

How about trying to get the ad link header to contain the orange – that way people scanning the page may well read the add as well?

Sneaky – yes, worthwhile – possibly?

Just a thought.

Dave

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 03:01:55 +0000

I’ve got a 468×15 link unit just above my content, and it’s not only bringing in about 2/3 of my adsense revenue, but my revenue overall is way up. Not that that means much with as little traffic as I get, but I’ll take all I can get…

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:08:45 +0000

I’m a regular reader and I didn’t notice the new Adlink Units until you mentioned it in this post. Though it will probably be a good move based on the comments here to you could assume an increase in CTR via search engine visitors.

By: HART

HART — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:13:16 +0000

Yup. Another reason why I’d buy your e-book… “sneaky way #106 how to trick your readers into clicking fake navigation links on your blog”. I’m with Danger Stevens (1) and Ian McKenzie (3) comments and was also fooled… but, liked it so much that I just added it to my ’single.php’ page in wordpress templates. PS: I enjoy subscribing to your feed ..

By: Allen Heat

Allen Heat — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:04:10 +0000

Nice placement :), that’s all i have to say…

Heat

By: Ian McKenzie

Ian McKenzie — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:00:05 +0000

I noticed them in much the same way as the first commentor. I thought they were some type of navigation, at first glance. I’d be interested in hearing how they perform for you.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:38:40 +0000

At first I didn’t see it, if it doesn’t go too well I think a good place to put them would be under the 3 blocks.

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:57:12 +0000

At first I thought you’d gotten some new categories – I was shocked to find you’d opened a whole new category on ‘Merchant Accounts’ (I was looking at your ebook-selling post) until I figured out what was going on.

Hope it goes well for you, you know we’re all dying to find out if it’s successful.