Venturing off into adsense.. I need critique!

Howdy folks,

I've been reading the forum for the past couple days trying to take in lots of info. I guess now is the time to ask all you experts to take a look at my site.

I launched an article directory site a few weeks ago. I've been approving and declining lots of incoming articles from some article services that I asked to be added to. Right now, I think the idea is to develop more traffic. As for now, I was am wondering about adsense placements on my site. I want good placement so when I do start to get more and more traffic I get more and more clicks.

www.articlecat.com

Cut and paste. Oops, I didn't realize I am not capable of posting a link yet.

Feel free to click around the site.. view categories and articles to get a sense of where I am placing ads. Suggestions and constructive criticism is very welcome. Also, any tips on gaining more traffic are welcomed too.

Cheers.

 

I think you're doing a good job. keep it up and earn traffic.

 

I would say:
use 336x280 boxes instead of 300x250 in articles and float them to the left instead of right

use 336x280 boxes instead of 468x60 in category listings

Use 336x280 on top on front page, above the 468x60 (well placed anyway too).

use align="justify" in your articles so the text looks straight both on left and right, it gives a professional look I think, much like newspapers and magazines.

The blue color is good, the ad blending is good.

 

Thanks for the comments. I just had time to quickly mess with the article.

I first changed the box on the article listing to 336x280 and floated it to the left. I also justified the text. How do you think the justified text looks? Will it pass to be okay? I figured I'd ask because I think it needs to grow on me a little.

I'll take a look at the category listings and the front page. I want to try to keep it as neat as possible. I think the term is that I don't want to be "spammy".

Keep the comments coming! Thanks!