Review on Labnol - Amit Agarwal, are you listening?

Hey ppl..

All of you might have heard about Labnol and Amit Agarwal - the man who makes big money with just a free blogspot account and Adsense. He is a sourc e of inspiration to many indian bloggers like me Salutes to the man.

I'm a regular reader of his blog. but today i happened to notice something i havent noticed for all this time. The google ads placement on the blog itself.

Interestingly, i have all the reasons to believe that the ad placements(just the Adlink units) in his blog ar not the most effective. Amit may disagree with me, but this is again an oppurtunity for me to do a case study may be.

I see that the blog has an Ad-Link unit placed on the left-hand panel of the blog,
after which there is the feedburner “subscribe” and the technorati “add to favourites” link..
and after which there are the “recent hits” category!

Fair enough – I guess the idea was to categorize things distinctly.

But, I wonder how many clicks actually land on the Ad-Link unit?

I saw an opportunity here.
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9414/originalba2.jpg

I think it would be better if you can roll up the “feedburner - subscribe to email” and “technorati favourites” up to the top(right below the about the site link) and, bring down the Ad-link unit right above the “recent hits” category.This can be achieved by creating a table on top of the recent hits category and placing the ad-link unit in it.

The benefits –

- The Ad-link unit looks similar to the recent hits category and thereby identified more by the visitors as a clickable region.

- More CTR

How you do it?

1.Upload the following image(table background) to imageshack or on blogger.

2.In your HTML code, goto the < div class = 9 > tag (Right after the SUBSCRIBE BY EMAIL) and create a new table.

3.OR, place the following code –

4.Go to the original adlinks unit code and delete it.

Simple as that.

The new page would look similar to this. (Let me know if this benefits you)


What do you guys think? Is this gonna work or not?

Amit, can you tell me how effective this would be?

 

With the amount he's making I'm sure his ad placement is just fine.

 

yes sam, he is an expert reviewer and a good seo, so i wud/ atleast all the visitors wud expect his blog to be the best. and recently i found that hes doing ad placement reviews on other famous websites too. so i ust thought that this little point might be worthy enough for him.