Site with Adsense Seeking Review

Hello,

I've been reading these forums for a couple of weeks and have learned alot. If you review my site I'm sure you'll agree I have much more to learn. The idea behind my site is provide useful content for people who have or are considering creating a small home based business. This is a fun hobby for me but I would like to at least get to the point where I'm making a little to cover hosting, etc.

I have adsense on most of the pages, which I'm beginning to wonder if it's overkill. I would greatly appreciate any feedback regarding the adsense placements and the overall look and feel of the site- if people don't get past the first page then no one will be clicking on the ads.

Thanks for your help!
My site is: www.webresourceshop.com

 

Your site's overall feel is ok, but the adsense ads are not placed/ formatted well.

• Try removing the borders on the box ads below.
• Shift them slightly higher in the page and blend the colors.

This should be a starter. I also learnt the hard way... Now I can blend well. Fairly okay CTRs... One of my sites (recently built, not much content, but look at design).​

May be that helps.

 

To greatly improve your CTR (as in my experience) you should rather place a horizontal ad (like a leaderboard) above or in between your content instead of the skyscraper at the far right site, which will hardly be noticed.

 

Thank you both for the suggestions. I will experiment with blending the ads and moving the position of the ads. Medusa's ads blend incredibly well - that's what I'll shoot for. I'm also going to try to the leaderboard ad in the middle of the content. Thank you both again!