Good adsense position?

Hello

What do you think of the colors and positioning of my goodle ads on my site: http://www.andyvenus.co.uk

Any comments welcomed

Thanks
-Andy

 

Placement seems to be fine but I would make the background of that table and the border of the ads #003366 so they blend better. This will get rid of the white gap between the ads and the border of the body of the page.

I hope that makes sense.

Or i would switch the colors so the background of the ads and border is white and the text is the same color as other links on your page.

One more thing...Center the ads in the table instead of having them aligned to the left.

Those are my thoughts and opinions.

 

Yes, excellent advice as to color of the adsense.
Make sure it follow the color scheme of your page (or site).

The key to success with adsense is to NOT make it "in your face advertising"

The Iowa Dawg

 

Thanks for the tips guys. I will try some things out

 

Just to reinforce "blending your Ad colors", I conducted an experiment over the weekend and the end result proves that users don't want Ads that scream out at them. As soon as I switched my Ads back to blended Ads - I started getting clicks again.

From the end users prospective, they are looking for information and want to focus on getting that information. I know I feel the same way when I browse.

 

Anyone with thoughts on putting adsense in the middle of a content site?
Seen those, where the content is about say autos, and while reading, it all
stops for a bunch of adsense ads one has to scroll through to finish reading the
content.

Is this good? Or in your face?

Or sites where the entire top is adsense, and only on the bottom of the screen is the actual start of the page.
Visitor has to scroll down to find out what is actually on the site.

Earlier this day, I was surfing through and found a site that at the very top,
in big bold letters, stating "click on a blue google adsense ad to support my site"
Talk about wanting visitors to click on adsense!
Am sure at some point, google will disable this site's adsense.
Or someone will help google along by mentioning this to them.

The Iowa Dawg

 

I find it very annoing when adverts are placed on sites right in the center of an article. I don't see how it works because, if your reading the article you are going to scroll right past the ads to continue reading...

 

I certainly hope someone reports the site to google. I didn't really understand adsense from an advertisers prospective (adwords) until I joined this forum. Advertisers are paying good money for targetted traffic to come to their site - people who are interested in their products and services.

Websites like these will probably end up killing the whole Adsense thing for all of us, unfortunately.

 

I agree but I also noticed that alot of popular websites do it. E.g. About.Com. You always have to scroll past the Ads to get to the rest of the article. It does tend to make you notice the Ads though.

 

Ad Placement is nice, but I would think about placing 468x15 link unit on top in the middle column.

 

I am currently developing a site that is going to use this method. I haven't done it before so it is more of an experiment if anything else. The idea is to get the readers attention. Usually about halfway through the content readers tend to loose interest and will be more prone to click on the adverts. That's my thoughts anyway. I know some people find it annoying but I will wait and make my judgement once the site goes live and the clicks either come or they don't.

 

i kind of would agree with that method im going to try it myself because i know i loose interest in an article after a while so you would have my click haha but anyways i think it would work out pretty well