Comments on: Improving AdSense CTR with Video

By: Analyst

Analyst — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:16:10 +0000

It is violation of TOS of Google and one will get the adsense account banned by keeping the ads near images and Google is not doing so in youtube is to honour its own commitment.
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By: himeshmishra

himeshmishra — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:48:48 +0000

not a good idea to put ads close to video because video is surly going to take all the attention n after watching the video a person rather scrolls down to see wht else is in store rather than clicking on the ad.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:59:29 +0000

James above says google said using video was fine — but i have seen on a lot of message boards that people have been getting bounced from google because of video on their sites from you tube, ifilm, google etc…
Rumor has it now that google owns you tube they are cracking down on video blogs — i have an e-mail into them about this again

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:47:10 +0000

Oops, posted comment in wrong place, sorry.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:45:08 +0000

I wish Google would notify users when they come out with new features for Adsense, had it not been for your site I might not have heard about it for awhile.

Thanks,
Terry

By: James

James — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:23:12 +0000

I’ve been using youtube with adsense for quite awhile now – google has seen my blogs and gave it an ok. I use adsense above and below the videos – but… I like this placement better. I wonder how they got the video size like that?

By: Neo

Neo — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:12:28 +0000

Hmm… this looks like a good approach. As I have quite a number of videos on Youtube which are posted on my blog too, I think I can try something like that. Hope it works!

Thanks.

By: social bookmarking

social bookmarking — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:11:50 +0000

I wanna try this out.

I will make a video of myself. I will record my ugly big face and talk a lot of interesting stuff.

I will use my body language to seduce people to click on the adsense ads beside the video.

My head will keep turning to the right and looking at something while I speak. My readers will think “what is this stupid guy looking at..” their eyes will shift to the Adsense Ads where my head is facing.

Against TOS? I never talk anything about google adsense. I never point to it. I merely just turn my head in the video. This will be interesting.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:11:28 +0000

Yes I was thinking more of the copyright issues rather than the placement strategy – I suppose you could use YouTube to create your own original / public domain video footage to use, then it comes down to placement of images and attracting attention again, as with any other type of content, rather than copyright issues.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:44:19 +0000

James:

Checked the adsense TOS, you are right! Thanks! Took the ads off my site.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:32:40 +0000

siong1987:

thanx! changed it now! problem is google only allows one link ad (468×15) per page.

By: James

James — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:36:15 +0000

I thought, publishers are not allowed to use youtube content with adsense?
A lot of YouTube content belongs to different people or are even have copy right restristions

By: Sunny Tan

Sunny Tan — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:23:12 +0000

i think the whole thing about placing the video on your page is not only about getting some clicks, but rather to enchance your visitors’ surfing experience while visiting your site

There are way too much information floating around the internet and what better to feed their needs than having a multimedia rich content like relevant videos themselves.

It’s all about the VEO or visitor enhance optimization. The ads themselves just complements their searching goal, shouldn’t be done solely to induce irrelevant clicks.

Think about it, if the visitors stay long enough on your pages (because of watching the videos), don’t you think that the search engines might consider your site to be relevant enough to boost your relevancy ranking?

Otherwise, if you tend to stuff keywords and keywords into your content which will make your content rather dull and boring, many visitors would be turned away such as myself. Then I would also think that the SE’s may consider your site to be irrelevant to the searches done.

just my 2cents

By: siong1987

siong1987 — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:14:51 +0000

This approach is still not perfect yet. You can try to add a 728X15 link unit ads just under the video and the text ads.

I used it before and most people will only click at the link unit ads.

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:51:20 +0000

I have this approach on my fight video blog. Not sure it really works because I think the video takes all the attention and the ad gets left behind.

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:31:56 +0000

I think YouTube might implement something like this soon. But Youtube’s in a lot of turmoil. The YouTubers are complaining about this and that.

By: jhay

jhay — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:40:35 +0000

This is quite nifty. This is just but a taste of the future to come, all sorts of attention grabbers right next to ads.

By: Domtan.com

Domtan.com — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:00:59 +0000

I don’t think Google permits this tactic wholeheartedly. This has evolved from placing images adjacent to adsense ads.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:01:20 +0000

This is a good idea overall. I think the worries of confusing the user are overblown; Looking at the site in question, it is apparent that the text ads are not part of the acutal video; they are just very pervasive.

By: Sunny Tan

Sunny Tan — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:35:48 +0000

Hi Darren,

I’ve already checked with Google Adsense team on this and it’s okay with them.

Hope this helps. :)