Please Review My Ad Placement

hi guys. I am tinkering and would like to know your opinions on this site's index page.

Here's the addy: http://www.wowguideonline.com

 

first off, nice website, it looks really professional (though i dont like the red buttons, too plain/out of place imo for the design of the site itself)

as for your advertisement, one of the first thigns i noticed, is this image:
http://www.wowguideonline.com/images/human_mage.jpg

in the top right of yoru site, but it doesnt click to anything, it serves no purpose other than for attention (and i admit, its a nice pic) followed by the google adsense under it, imo, thats not good, the google adsense should be above it imo (or maybe move the image all together? id unno, just seems to be a waste of eyecandy)

also, t he top banner is -very- small, id idnt even notice it the first 2 times i looked on your site, though i do like how you have it nice n small..

id suggest making it about 2x as tall, that way its a bit more noticable



again, i just wanna say thats a -very- nic elooking website, congrats on the hard work you must have put into it.

 

I just added the photo on the side. The reason was this: I get most of my clicks from the center content block. However I was getting paid more per click from the side bar. The side bar was higher without the graphic. I put the graphic there to force the adsense on the side lower in order to have higher paying ads in the center block. After all doesn't the highest block get the highest paying ads first?

By the way, it shows a random picture in the block on each load. I thought it'd be a nice touch. I have 3 pics in the rotation so far.