900+ Hits a day and not much adsense, any one no why

[sixty6]

Originally Posted by shahab6

Why is link exchange bad?

stop asking the same question!! If ferre sees you he will make it his personal goal to hunt you down and kill you I don't know why...

[ollan]

i think the problem goes beyond adsense. don't get me wrong - your adsense blocks still need a lot of tweaking, but before you do that, consider this:

the topic of your site is too broad -- you're trying to be all things to all people, and that's not going to work well. it looks confusing. you need to focus on a single topic. think of what your main keyword is and focus the content around that. on your site, Webmaster, Hardware, Graphics, Online Gaming, computers, consoles and pc help are all on the same page. why? this is one of the reasons why the adsense ads on your site aren't highly targeted. split the content (by topic) into separate directories or sub-domains and you'll get better results.

one other thing: when you view your website in mozilla firefox, the adsense block on the upper left hand side of the page is cutting into your navigation.

[Dustin07]

you're site isn't FF friendly?

I'd put a link block in on the left side where you have "site sections" with the background and border matching the color and link color matching your links.

People seem to follow an upside down "L" shape on sites.. uh, like this...

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if that helps...lol so the best adsense ads seem to be horizontal link ads on top or the link block sections on the left. But the banner style doesn't ever seem to have a great CTR.

although it could be based upon the layout of the site as well.. but with a site like yours I'd think links would do better than banners.

[MadKad]

Thank you bingoballs I am going to have a good look at this and sort out teh problems

Shahab6

I just dont do it my self there isnt anything wrong with it and for asking in another thread it shouldnt be done if any one wants to get links then they should really open a thread for it

[MadKad]

Originally Posted by ollan

i think the problem goes beyond adsense. don't get me wrong - your adsense blocks still need a lot of tweaking, but before you do that, consider this:

the topic of your site is too broad -- you're trying to be all things to all people, and that's not going to work well. it looks confusing. you need to focus on a single topic. think of what your main keyword is and focus the content around that. on your site, Webmaster, Hardware, Graphics, Online Gaming, computers, consoles and pc help are all on the same page. why? this is one of the reasons why the adsense ads on your site aren't highly targeted. split the content (by topic) into separate directories or sub-domains and you'll get better results.

one other thing: when you view your website in mozilla firefox, the adsense block on the upper left hand side of the page is cutting into your navigation.

Thank you our aim is to cover lots of topics, it is hard on what to do fully as I am used to doing one topic my self but with more than one it makes things that little harder

Originally Posted by Dustin07

you're site isn't FF friendly?

I'd put a link block in on the left side where you have "site sections" with the background and border matching the color and link color matching your links.

People seem to follow an upside down "L" shape on sites.. uh, like this...

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if that helps...lol so the best adsense ads seem to be horizontal link ads on top or the link block sections on the left. But the banner style doesn't ever seem to have a great CTR.

although it could be based upon the layout of the site as well.. but with a site like yours I'd think links would do better than banners.

thank you also


OK can some one please do me a screen shot, I have FF and it looks spot on to me as I made sure I coded it for all

[Dustin07]

OK can some one please do me a screen shot, I have FF and it looks spot on to me as I made sure I coded it for all

Looks like it depends on res...?



when I open it up to max screen size it looks OK.

[MadKad]

are right hmm so people with small res have the problems cr@p another thing I have to try and work out

[ninjaball]

good

[ninjaball]

yes

[G10]

Originally Posted by ninjaball

yes

All your posts are one word answers dude

Whats wrong, are you shy?

[MadKad]

correct G10 to posts with one words in, come on please dont post this sh@t in my threads its really starts to get on my tits

[georgeG]

I don't get that much traffic yet, but my CTR is GREAT.
Your ad placement is in the wrong position...try to blend it into the ody copy. Alos, vary the adds slightly...keep visitors guessing...and remove borders.
Also, make add urls same color as body copy.
These pages of mine perform very well.
http://www.affordable-custom-house-plans.com
http://www.affordable-custom-house-p...mortgages.html

hope this helped.

cheers
George

[MadKad]

I am trying to sort it out, I was held back as I totaly smashed the site to bits and only just fixed it

Thanks for the tips

i see on this page

http://www.affordable-custom-house-plans.com/

you have made them look like your site, is this ok to do?

[georgeG]

yip..google approved it. If you're not sure if what you want to do is OK, run it by Google..they will assist you.

G

[MadKad]

are right ok I will thank you, have to say that I have emailed them before lots of times and they dont reply I think its cos I live in the uk

[Dustin07]

I think Google's two biggest concerns are asking people to click, and hiding the "ads by Google" part by covering it with an image or something. They make the code pretty customizable I think on purpose so it can blend with your site very well. They don't want to be an eye sore anymore than you want them to be

[MadKad]

thats an intresting thought and also if you think about it google want people to click cos they make cash

[sixty6]

Originally Posted by MadKad

thats an intresting thought and also if you think about it google want people to click cos they make cash

A bad thing for advertisers! Oh well

[Dustin07]

A bad thing for advertisers! Oh well

not always. They're clicking because they're interested right? a majority of my websales are due to adwords I think.

[MadKad]

Yes they will only click if it is something that intrests them