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Does it work good for you? do you use it or not?
If I had to choose link units or regular adblocks, link units would be the easy and obvious choice for most of my pages.
But, this is Adsense, and not all features work for everyone.
When I first tried adlinks I was not impressed but since them I've found they work well on some page.
Not only does it depend on your site but things change with adsense over time so you have to try things again now and then.
As regards adlinks, these work pretty well on some pages. Better than some ad blocks. It's worth trying them and see how they work for you.
They work great and provide a nice percentage of total income.
Search? No way
Link units? Absolutely.
Search? No way
I double that and add that if we could use more than one Link unit, I'd abandon the regular ads.
Link units work best for me at the end of an article or between two paragraphs. Underneath the navigation they didn't work for me.
Search - Like someone else said, I have search on my site anyway. Onsite search eats up too much CPU, so I use google sitesearch anyway. $3-$10/day for something that would be there anyway. It isn't big money, but it's free money for me.
Hey guys how many searches a day are you talking about?
How many searches per day does your site generate. If it's a very large number, than few dollars is bad. But if your site gets only 100-200 searches per day, few dollars is fair.
This leads to my second question.
What kind of CTR are you seeing in the search results. Is it better than regular Adsense CTR?
What kind of CTR are you seeing in the search results. Is it better than regular Adsense CTR?
The CTR is WAY better on search.
No matter what your income using Google Search, it's more profitable to pick up those few searches than to leave "search-happy" users (or anyone trained not to click text ads.. I know I can pick em out and get to the content in two seconds) out in the cold.
Although your text ads and link units may be the most profitable forms of revenue; unless you're receiving a 100% clickthrough rate it would be silly not to supplement them with another.
Never got very far in economics but I know the basics... make any sense!?
However, if you do have a site search facility the Google one is worth considering. Partly because visitors are used to using Google and it works well enough in most cases. And partly because you get a slight income as well.
Secondly it provides a great insite as to what searchers are looking for - how they spell terms, and how the word short expressions. An enormous help in identifying good keywords that otherwise may haev been over-looked.
Re link units - love them. I find them far less obtrusive on the page, and are quite often better targeted than other forms of advertising.
At the end of the day - every site is different, and what works for one, may not work for another. All you can do is try it for yourself - and that means running it for a few weeks - not just one or two days!
