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I get up this morning and much to my surprise my Sunday earnings are UP and Link Units contributed 30% of the income!
I sure hope this isn't a fluke.
April Ad Links 44.5% of earnings
May Ad Links 45.9% of earnings
With these kind of figures I'd like to try 2 x Ad Links and 2 others, I'm not too sure whether 3 x Ad Links would work but I'd give it a try.
unusual for you to be a late adopter
"late adopter" is also a code for "procrastinator"
I'm just packing for southern Germany and an exciting week of exhibiting myself in front of everyone!
Seriously though, it means a few days off trying some excellent German beers, hospitality and Bavarian smoked ham, and that's just for breakfast...it's a hard life and I'm weakening:-)
If I have the misfortune to find an unoccupied Net terminal in the complex, I'm not so sure it's a benefit that I do know where they are, I'll check in to see how your Ad Links progress.
Bavarian smoked ham
I have that for lunch about 3 times a week already :)
Enjoy the German beer, I should really lock in a trip for Oktoberfest now while I'm thinking about it!
My initial testing of AdLinks provided income, but I felt it was at the expense of the AdSense ads.
Has your AdSense income remained stable, and Adlinks added to it?
I'm curious as to where on the page you're placing AdLinks - above the fold, below the fold, etc.
I put AdLinks directly atop my skyscraper ad on the left hand side, above the fold, somewhat close to the top of the page. My CTR shot up from 3.5% to 5% on a weekend and the earnings are solidly up 30% or more still.
This is a weekend day which is low for me so I'm all excited to see what happens tomorrow, I'll report back :)
By the end of the month, I'm expecting an extra grand in my pocket(getting close), from the adlinks.
Yesterday ended huge and today at noon I'm 80% of last monday, this is huuuuuuuuge
AdLinks is also now the highest earning ad block on the site, unreal. I never would've believed it as I've never clicked on one when I saw them, they just didn't appeal to me at all, I can't believe so many people click them!
Based on the 2 day trend it will outperform a month of commission junction sales in less than a week.
Commission Junction, what's your function?
Hogging up ad space with things that don't pay....
Well ta ta CJ.
AdLinks is just freaky, I love it.
That was two weeks ago. Performance day to day has been up and down--interestingly, the links vary by topic considerably. Google perhaps is testing to see what works best. But it's added to overall income (though it's hard to tell by how much, since the home page redesign has changed traffic flow around the site).
I like the idea of putting it on top of a skyscraper ad, because that's what I already use on my site and that would be an easy change to make. I think I'll wait a week or two, though, so I can establish a clear baseline.
Their function is to suck up clicks then make sure you don't get paid much for them.
If I tell my wife my current earnings as they come in ONE MORE TIME today she's going to beat me to death with a blunt object.
Ha ha, funny comment about your wife.
Tweaking is so nice, I've been doing it intensely for about a month now, over tripled my earnings as of yesterday, highest day ever... this has been happening a lot lately.
It's 3PM PST and I've already reached my normal daily earnings for a Monday with 9 hours to spare.
I checked my channels and the leaderboard and skyscraper are doing what they always do for this time of day, it's 100% the adlinks.
HOWEVER, I had one mildly sobering thought beyond my glee of the loud ringing >KACHING!< >KACHING!< sound of ca$h today is that AdLinks probably is doing more for the publisher than the advertiser. Why I say this is because when someone clicks on the AdLinks link they get presented with a full page of nothing but advertisements with no "Back To..." link in case the page isn't exactly what they wanted or anything, so the only exit presented by the page itself is to an advertisement. Good for the publisher, good for Google, maybe not so good for the advertiser but it's hard to say, just a thought.
you know these days i even dont click on any adwords ads even on google.com, as a former eMerchant, i just CANT bring myself to do it!
hhmm i like the interface its neat and simple and it seems the targeting is slightly better or almost the same. Do you guys/gals see simliar targeting or is it different?
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I just checked and AdLinks is actually paying a few cents under my leaderboard average per click, but the CTR is way higher than the other 2 adblocks, almost double.
Simply amazing.
Adlinks is about 25% of my income this month. I should clear 4K.
