Advice on Adsense placement

Can anyone give us some advice on our Google adverts (adsense) on both of our sites?

Site 1 http://www.swapshop.co.nz

Site 2 http://www.nzdatezone.com


Thanks in advance. Any advice is welcome on making the ads work better for us.

 

1) Put the ads in the upper fold , at the top , remove the borders from the ads , make it blend with the background

2) Be careful not to show any type of nudity , Adsense does not allow any type of nudity.

 

Which site is your advice for?

 

Your ads are too hidden, way below the fold. Bring them up. Use a 468 at the top, just above the "Welcome to Nzdatezone" title. Remove one of the skyscrapers or both. Insert two more 468 banners (or one more) in-between the profiles.

And please post in the right forum next time.

 

Very well placed now.

 

Ok updated http://www.nzdatezone.com

Two new 468x60 banners

Should this be graphics or text?

Should we put graphics above them?

Please advise us

 

How do we force 4 text ads in a google_ad_format = "728x90_as";

Ours changes from 3 to 4?

 

There is no way to do that.

Add border line in that page : http://www.swapshop.co.nz/ between 728 ads and images !

 

Good Advice

Done!

Real issue to line the graphics up with 3 then 4 text links.

Are text links higher performing still?

 

I would really get rid of the skyscraper and use 3 468x60 banners, one at the top (the way you have it now) and two more in-between the profiles -- or, even better, replace two of the profile blocks with 468 ads. How is the sky converting for you?

 

Been adding channels to track the CTR better

1,1476 imp 19 clicks 1.29% so far which appears to be better already

Ok left sky scraper does ok per day but is worth the try to change to banners in the profiles.

This is a good idea but harder to code into a template. Will see if I can work it out

Can some one answer is it better to have graphics banner or still to have text links.

 

Leave it as the default, text and image. Images will pay you CPM (per 1,000 impressions). Are you saying you get 11k impressions or 1.1k impressions?

 

I would add a Link Unit size 728x15 just below your header menu.

 

1,1476 imp 19 clicks 1.29% so far which appears to be better already
Now
1,764 imp 26 1.47% getting better

Thats 1764 not 17,64,00

Will do at the mo text for http://www.swapshop.co.nz
image_text for http://www.nzdatezone.com

Sure which site do you mean please?

 

Don't add so many ads if you want repeat visitors. If it smells like your'e just trying to make a buck out of them, they won't come back.

 

They might come back if you have valuable content, like people's profiles.

But you shouldn't display your numbers it is written in AdSense TOS that you shouldn't reveal those. I never heard someone banned for that, but anyway...

 

This is the Web. There is NOTHING you can have that 1000 other websites with less ads (or no ads at all) can also have, if not more. Don't give your visitor an excuse to find your content elsewhere. That is, if you want loyal visitors. If not, put as many ads as your heart desires.