Adsense Secrets - How To “Tweak” Your Ads

2007/07/27 |

1.Ad Formats : “Dress” your ads for success!

How would you like your ads served? Banners? Skyscrapers? Rectangles? Squares? What about borders and background colors?

The choices can be overwh elming. Many people let Google decide for them-preferring to stick with the defau lt settings. Big mistake! From my own experience I can tell you that it’s like swapping a hundred-dollar bill for a ten-dollar one.

For almost one year I settled for just a tenth of what I could have been making - just because I didn’t bother to control the looks and placement of my AdSense ads.

The various ad formats, colors and their placement on the web page can be done in thousands of combin ations. You can literally spend hours every day experimenting with every possible combination. But you don’t want to, do you?

Let me give you a few ‘ground rules’ that have sky-rocketed the CTR’s on my top-grossing pages:

2.Don’t “Look” Like An Ad

People don’t visit your website for ads. They want good content.

If you make the ads stick out with eye-popping colors, images or borders, that makes them easy to recognize as ads - and people work extra hard to avoid them.

The same goes for ads that are tucked away in the top, bottom or some other far corner of the page. So easy to ignore!

If you want people to click, make the ads look like an integral part of your content.

Today’s visitors are blind to banners, mad at pop-ups, weary of ads and skeptical of contests and giveaways. So how do you win their confidence? Simple… Don’t make your ads look like ads!

Let’s begin by reviewing each of the different types of ad available from AdSense and explain ing their uses… then I’ll introduce you to a few simple choices that rocketed my CTRs to incredible heights.

3.Meet the AdSense Family

Google serves its ads in three flavors, with each of those flavors coming in a range of different shapes and sizes. It is very important to understand the differences between each of th ese ads. Some are ideal for particular locations. Some should never be used in certain locations. And some should never be used at all.

The sample page at www.google.com/adsense/adformats lets you see all of the different kinds of ads at once. It even has links to sample placements that demonstrate how the ads can be used.

For the most part, I’d recommend that you ignore those sample placements.

I’ll talk about location in more detail later in the post, but for now just bear in mind that many of the ads in the samples are just too out of the way to be noticed.

You can use them as a starting point if you want but you’ll save yourself a lot of time - and money - by taking advantage of the experience of myself and others, and following the recommendations here.

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