I have a couple of blogs and experimenting with google adsense. I'm in for only a couple of months, so i actually thought the main thing i need is great traffic.
Things changed when one of my posts (not from this blog) went to reddit top 5. it then appeared at fark and delicious tops also. i had something like 60000 visitors in two days, and earned... well, a dollar or so.
Things changed when one of my posts (not from this blog) went to reddit top 5. it then appeared at fark and delicious tops also. i had something like 60000 visitors in two days, and earned... well, a dollar or so.
that's the moment i started thiniking about optimizing my pages for adsense.
I already had ads with no borders, and colors were matching my template. i searched web for some answers, and did a couple of things. after that, my CTR increased about 20 times. unfortunately, at that moment traffic was quite low, but i still have some everyday income that is about 20 times higher. here are the simple steps:
- Instead of 468x15 Link Unit i put 300x250 Rectangle at the top of my page under it's header.
- I made links blue. Yes, people simply expect free links to be blue.
- I made ads urls color match text color.
1 comments:
Thanks for the 3 simple steps. I will try it out. I think many web users are getting used to the standard advert sizes.
e.g. 120x600 and 468x60
I seem to get increased revenue for using less common sizes. I find 250x250 often works well for myself.
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