Looking to Improve AdSense Clicks

Stilll a AdSense Newbie ;)

[wfernley]

Well I have had AdSense on my website since March and I get about 1.50 a day but I was looking to increase my stats. The following is my report average:

Page CTR 1.4%
Page eCPM $6.83
Average a day $1.49
Average Clicks 3
Average Page Impressions 218

I was also curious about placement. If anyone wants to see my site let me know and I will let you know the address. I'm not sure if I have the AdSense bar in the correct places for my website.

Thanks in advance for your help :)

[sirkei]

[google.com ]

Follow the heat map. Guaranteed improval of clicks or ctr. Non-guarantee of earnings improval. But usually, getting more clicks will be your first step to getting more revenues regardless of the smart pricing issue.

[europeforvisitors]

You need to increase traffic. It's that simple.

[brokenbricks]

Your site loaded extremly slow for me, and was full of broken images. You might wanna work on making it valid and as fast as possible first.

[sirkei]

EFV,

I guess my sites had been hit by smart pricing effect. Simply increasing traffic now is useless to me. I am getting a constant revenue regardless of how much traffic i am increasing. I even tested out few days with adwords. Just getting depressed with this.

[send2paul]

You could move the Adsense from the bottom of the page to the top - it may mean redesigning your website a bit, but if you're serious about Adsense you'll giv it a try.

[wfernley]

Thanks for all your help. I was thinking of putting a nother bar on the right and putting adsense there. That might help. I'm curious about the broken images though and it running slow. My hosting company is starting to scare me :S

[Zygoot]

wfernley, to get optimal results and more clicks it may be better to use the horizontal or square ads. Don't place the ads out of sight, put them somewhere prominent so you're users will notice them.

[wyweb]

Just getting depressed with this.

ebb and flow man... ride it out...

You could move the Adsense from the bottom of the page to the top - it may mean redesigning your website a bit, but if you're serious about Adsense you'll giv it a try.

absolutely... good advice... experiment with colors too. I found that to be pretty big....

[jenkers]

hi,
your site works fine for me - pages and pics quick - I'm in the UK (that said I'm on a 2MBPS connection). You might try putting a vertical adlinks box directly under your recently reviewed link in your left hand nav element.

I like your site and I can see (I think) how you want it to work but if you want higher CTR on adsense ads you are going to have to make a trade-off.

Note - as I clicked on the camera reviews I did notice a slow down on your site.

On the camera information pages you have the heading:
'Network camera ratings' with blank space directly to the right. A 2 ad horizontal banner would fit in there if you increased the height a little - this is also a possible hotspot. As it wouldn't really affect your layout and content I'd definitely try that as well.

Like EFV said earlier - you need more eyeballs.

[MediaSpree]

Just below your top image and before your title, place 2, 250x250 squares right next to each other, dead center. page CTR will go up to 20% overnight! The trade off is you'll loose many of visitors before they read your content but if adsense is your only baby, may as well let em leave by paying you for the pleasure of stopping by!

[Buzliteyear]

Try this...

One change. Move the ad from the bottom left (terrible spot) to just under the Site Search Table and Big Pic of Camera. Use a Leaderboard blended in with the colors of you page and centered.

Below is a rough idea

__________

Ne........ews.com

Link Bar

Site Search Table / Big Pic of Camera

(Move AS to here) AdSense 728 x 90 Leader Board

Ntwr..... / Ntwrk........website

Good luck.

[King of Bling]

Try a few simple changes...

- Change the AdSense link colors to match your site links
- Match the padding of your nav boxes and the AdSense block

- If you're up to it, try adding a 468 AdSense block or something similar to the active window area, preferably towards the top

Remember, don't sacrifice your site's integrity by over-optimizing the AdSense ads and positions. A few minor tweaks can get you increased revenue without alienating your visitors.

Good luck,
KOB

[wfernley]

Great thanks for all your help!

I have made some updates to my AdSense code. It looks a lot better using the same colors as my site. I have in some spots of my site 2 AdSense banners. Is this ok to do?

Thanks again!

Wes

[europeforvisitors]

I have made some updates to my AdSense code. It looks a lot better using the same colors as my site.

For what it's worth, I use rotating colors in my AdSense leaderboard, and a Google employee told me that's what she would have recommended if I hadn't done it on my own.

Why do I use rotating colors instead of having the ads blend in?

1) The rotating colors discourage "ad blindness" by subliminally informing readers that they aren't seeing the same old ads as they go from page to page.

2) The color backgrounds draw attention to the ads. (That's a good thing, not a bad thing; research studies show that, in targeted niche media, readers are interested in seeing relevant ads.)

3) Advertisers who look at my pages can see that I'm not trying to encourage accidental clicks by users who can't tell an AdSense link from a navigation link. This makes my site more attractive to advertisers who use site-targeted CPM ads (something that will become increasingly important as more mainstream corporate advertisers and disillusioned AdWords/AdSense "content network" CPC advertisers spend their budgets on site-targeted CPM ads).