Forum Moderators: martinibuster
I've heard people, from time to time, talk about using Adsense on photo gallery pages and state that they performed very badly.
Well, I found a way around this problem. I simply added a couple of paragraphs of text about each photo. Then I wrapped the text around the Adsense code on some gallery pages and mixed it up on other pages by putting the code next to the pictures. Click through ratio increased immensely and ads are now quite targetted resulting in higher payouts per click. I'm going to go back through my other photo galleries and do the same thing.
It all depends what you mean by "very badly"!
I have AdSense in my (free multimedia) Gallery site and it does well enough for me, which is by definition not "very badly". The CTR and eCPM are much lower than others claim for their sites, but I'm not out to make a killing, only to cover costs and have some over to re-invest in the site, which AS does for me. I don't think anyone should even *try* a made-for-AdSense gallery! B^>
But, to come back to your point, yes the text is vital, else the AdSense MediaBot has nothing to digest to guess your page content.
Rgds
Damon
Seems to me that if the ads are "widget" hosting related, it is good business sense for everyone involved.
So tell me- why a made-for-adsense gallery would not be in the best interest of the advertisers?
People are always interested in those offerings, especially if they can receive income from their photos.
I would assume that's what the ads would offer anyway.
Cover costs? Enough to re-invest? Umm... I'm looking to make a living... and then some.
It all depends what you mean by "very badly"!
in context to what you may be expecting anyway...
It's a photo page. People are coming there to see photos. This is what they expect to see and this is what they're getting.
It's all about targeting. I can't stress this enough. No one in here can stress this enough. Why did they click and what do they find when they get there? If you're not getting clicks this could maybe be a place to start...
I mean you told them they'd get photos and that's what you gave them... job done too well perhaps?
