Help - Your assessment on ads layout please

I've made massive changes to my site to get better results for an adwords campaign I'm running right now.
Can you please send me your feedback?

The main page is http://www.the-c-channel.com
The other area I'm doing a campaign for is http://www.the-c-channel.com/en/travel/article_1.html

Would appreciate feedback.

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Well for me the ad placement layout is not bad. The problem I have is the Title color for the Skyscraper and Leaderboards...Although the gold colors seems to go with your overall color scheme, it seems to get washed out. It causes the Blue from the other normal links to appear more prominent.

 

So you mean I should change the ad title colour to a darker one?

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I like what I heard once, "links are supposed to be blue- that's what people expect"

You want the ads to be seen, but not create too much noise on your site- because you're supposed to be creating a site you care about too- (not that you aren't, just saying)- so it's a balance

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and sorry, I should add- the real feedback you need is not from people on here- it's from statistics you gather with an adsense tracker of some sort.

Learn the best practices here, then listen to your stats.

 

Why not put the leaderboard below your 4 menu images?
That would fit perfectly

 

DaStarBug - I've been holding on that idea for a while.
i read a post here where someone reported to have raised earnings by 350% on ads just by placing images just above the ads...
but I'm a little worried about TOS. I thought you couldn't have images just above ads.
If i did put ads below the images (the 3 images that are together at the top of the page) would I be breaking rules??

The link http://www.the-c-channel.com

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