Low CTR please review placement

Hello friends,
Although my sight is not that old, traffic is slowly increasing and its mostly unique search engine traffic, but my CTR is not that great any ideas would be of great help.
Thanks.

 

Come on guys not one person can give some help. any suggestions about placement, visitors etc would be welcome.

 

Loose ad borders. Make background color of the ad same as the underlying section of the page. Get rid of slideshow section (or move it) - it's occupying the best spot for an ad. Use non-AdSense ads in header. That location is not great even though it's the highest on the page. But because it's the #1 in your HTML code, Google puts best paying ads there so you end up having more CTR on ads with less CPC - you have to reverse that. C'mon dude, borders and colors are such basic settings - even Google tells you what to do about it! Do some basic research!

 

Thank you for your feedback, iv changed the colors and blended the backgrounds on two ad units, the one on the header I cant blend because i cant seen to find the color code in the template, any other suggestions would be a great help.

 

I like your placements very ideal to have them there. One question where is most your traffic coming from?

 

I am using only 1 ad unit and the CTR has average about 10%. You might want to consider testing it since your CTR is already low now. A good example would be http://www.4slicetoaster.org/

 

Craig the traffic is quite general all over the world, you can see specifics if you want by clicking on site meter, stats are open to public.

 

Your site is clean in design, I like it. Ads placements is OK. You can focus on drive traffic to your site. Try to link exchange with other similar content site with you.