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THE REASONING FOR THIS?
1. They went to the article to read information...give them something to read...don't directed them to another place to click to quickly, but keep it above the fold.
2. After giving them something to briefly read, they can decide a.to buy a related product b.do more research(by finishing the article)or c. go somewhere else.
The focus is on what they are looking for when they arrive, give them what they want...a good read and a place to find more.
a single occurance of some words on a page can throw off the ads
In my experience you can usually train AdSense pretty well just with TITLE, H1, H2 and maybe an alt text here or there and other than that mostly chaos on the page. Maybe it differs based on how heavily you site ranks on a specific term whether this approach at training the ads is successful, don't know for sure but it's worth a start.
Note, a single occurance of some words on a page can throw off the ads. For me the word 'track' or 'tracking' will destroy my ad relevance.
This happens to me a lot, mostly on my home page. I never really figured out how to fix this other than removing/changing the words. Makes for some interesting ads.
I put an adlinks (the smallest one) on one of my pages above the fold, off center, slightly to the right, that is borderless blended. This has become my best performing ad on the page.
I think the reasons why it may work so well is because its different (not many publishers like using adlinks), and another reason is that there is a lot of white space around it so it really stands out all alone on the page.