The AdSense Publisher Support team has just released an ad placement/targeting guide for bloggers.
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Good luck. You’ll probably get 2% CTR with that ad placement scheme.
If you really want to make real money off AdSense, be prepared to suffer the consequences:
…I soon started earning “easy” money from adsense. My whole goal changed to getting traffic in to the site and out through my adsense ads. I quickly learned that I was most successful when people saw my snippet in Google and thought my content would provide what they were looking for but really didn’t. Visitors arriving at the sites would make me most money if they quickly left. My efforts switched from good content to good advertising placement. From quality traffic to maximum traffic. At the point where I peaked in earnings was when I felt the worst about what I was doing.
January 31st, 2006 at 7:37 PM
so what kind of ad placement do you suggest to get better CTR?
January 31st, 2006 at 11:10 PM
That’s not the point of the series of articles… there’s a whole lot of material on that. The point really is between finding the balance in what kind of visitors you want.
For me, I blog mainly to be an authority to the stuff I post about, so the Adsense is extra. For serious money-making sites, they are still on the drawing board. For those, I won’t mind having transient clickers.
The problem for Pinoys is that it’s harder to get paid for most revenue models.
February 12th, 2006 at 1:22 AM
Thank you for the tips. And congratulations for your nice blog!
February 12th, 2006 at 6:22 AM
totally OT but how did u get your “add to” plugin to work? I cant get mine to show up in the comments and not sure what im dong wrong since the documentation is basically nothing…
February 21st, 2006 at 12:13 PM
I’ve just started blogging myself and tend to agree on the concept of finding a balance on quality of content and merely just getting income. I am discovering that I get more income from one time visitors. The regulars don’t really click on adsense. So I reflect this over, am I here to make money or am I here to add value?
March 3rd, 2006 at 5:06 PM
I tryed this and not worked.
All depends on the content of your blog.
April 11th, 2006 at 10:13 AM
What really matters on adsense robots is your content. another tip, its not all about the placement. although placement is a major part, its in the details that matters, or how the ads is shown on your site. example: you may want to blend your borders AND AD URLs to your background.
April 14th, 2006 at 2:39 PM
I tryed this method.
It’s working fine.
May 16th, 2006 at 10:41 PM
Tanks for the tips!