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How to improve my CTR on my arcade site?

Discussion in 'Placement / Reviews / Examples' started by RoboLlama, Apr 1, 2008.

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    How can I improve CTR on my arcade site?

    http://www.playflasharcade.com

    I'm looking for suggestions on placement, colors, types, and generally anything involving my AdSense ads.

    My current CTR is between 1.5% and 2.0% Thanks!!
     
    RoboLlama, Apr 1, 2008 IP
  2. golden14

    golden14 Peon

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    You need more ads! you only have one horizontal ad block on the page and that's only just above the 'fold' move that block to the top and interspurse the rest of the page with similar ad blocks (You can put 3 on each page).
    Also you could add in a horizantal link block right at the top just below you current horizontal men.

    You try changing the title colour to 0000FF which is the classic blue which is known to be the most Clickable
     
    golden14, Apr 1, 2008 IP
  3. RoboLlama

    RoboLlama Peon

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    Err.. I've got a large image ad on the right above the fold, and two other horizontal 468x80 ads above the fold (one image only one text only)... Not sure where you see just 1 ad above the fold. I'm kinda confused by your whole post >.< :confused:
     
    RoboLlama, Apr 1, 2008 IP
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    haha...nice blending...

    if you can change all your link colors to something else other than white...i think it would stand out better because your text color is also white...

    placement is great...:D
     
    fallen1, Apr 1, 2008 IP
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    fasttrack Banned

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    Just play with it, and make it look natural
     
    fasttrack, Apr 1, 2008 IP
  6. RoboLlama

    RoboLlama Peon

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    Thing is, I think perviously I had made it too natural since my CTR went down >.< I put that large image ad up and the other image ad and my CTR had jumped over 1%.

    Yes before the image ads it was under 1% :eek:
     
    RoboLlama, Apr 1, 2008 IP
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    i think image ads worked for you because your site has mostly images as links...image looks more natural that way...:D
     
    fallen1, Apr 1, 2008 IP
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    cri8bat Well-Known Member

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    1.5-2% CTR is not bad

    and I agree with your nice the image ads would work much better

    and nice blending tho
     
    cri8bat, Apr 2, 2008 IP
  9. golden14

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    Sorry but when I went on your page last night on the home page there was only one horizontal ad showing, might be more now but there certainly wasn't last night - trust me I wouldn't have missed them!
     
    golden14, Apr 2, 2008 IP
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    I see the graphic ads okay but assumed they weren't adsense graphic ads as there was no ref to google in the corner of them. I'd try adsense text ads instead, far higher CTR ratio than graphic ads (yet recognise colour makes a site look better), your content is good, so I'd try a swap around with text ads for a few days and see how it goes.
     
    golden14, Apr 2, 2008 IP
  11. RoboLlama

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    I had text ads for a couple weeks, and the image ads appear to be giving me higher CTR. I switched to image ads 2 days ago. Hmm, unfortunate to hear the ads weren't showing. The only type of ads on my site is AdSense besides a small 100x100 in the bottom left corner banner exchange thing.
     
    RoboLlama, Apr 2, 2008 IP
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    mine between 2%-3%...sometime up to 5%

    some expert said, only put 1 or 2 ads unit, 1 link unit and 1 seacrh to improve CTR. anyone here can prove it??
     
    izali, Apr 4, 2008 IP
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    SEOBusiness Well-Known Member

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    I think your placement is very good.
     
    SEOBusiness, Apr 5, 2008 IP
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    thivakaran Active Member

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    #14
    try to put more ad in your site
     
    thivakaran, Apr 5, 2008 IP
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    Haha more ads?! I have almost every ad unit available on there! 2 or 3 Link Units plus 3 image ads on every page!
     
    RoboLlama, Apr 5, 2008 IP
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    Alright, now that I've given it some time my CTR has rose to on average between
    2.8 - 3.1 %
     
    RoboLlama, Apr 11, 2008 IP