Help with this placement

Hey Everyone,

Ok I got a problem thats bugging me with one of my blogs.

I get VERY targetted traffic to this blog - I know this for a fact yet I get a CTR it the region of 0.5% - 0.75%. My ads are 95% relevant aswell so I know that isnt a factor for the low CTR so it must be my layout.

I have tried several different designs and most do not make much of a difference and if anything drop slightly. The ads are blended in with the background of my site, and links match the colour of the links through the blog.

My Layout is below:



Ive seen this layout on a few other sites be quite succesful - however as you can see - my CTR sucks. Even if i could get this to 2-3% I would be happy.

Anyone offer any suggestions that may help?

Thanks Everyone

 

i have no idea how to help you. i thought i was ok with placements but today ive had almost 1k pageviews ( old max was 500 ) and my ctr is under 0.2%. If i could somehow get 2% i'd be really happy.
mine is something like this

header
leaderboard
video
leaderboard
thumbnails of other videos ( random )
leaderboard
footer

 

What type of content you have? Can you ad ads in content?

 

can we have the URL of your site sparxxx?...thanks