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Micah · 2 years ago

Checks that big are always nice to see. Although, I have mine set up on direct deposit now (it's quicker). Very good pointers, thanks for the free info! BTW, what you say about 468x60 ads...I have found the same thing, they are horrible converters.

Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago

486x60 almost never convert for me regardless of location. Must be because even as early as 1997, ads came in that form.

Everton's placement of his ads are ideal - a 250x250 box embedded to the topmost left of his articles. How can you miss that?

moneymakerandtakers · 2 years ago

What is it with you!! Those are by far the best adsense dressed up ads I've seen to date!!

Tomaz · 2 years ago

Good tips but you have to be VERY careful with pictures and ads.

I played with various Chitika and Adsense combos that were all given a green light by both Google and Chitika representatives.

You can find an article about that on my blog. (I won't spam you with too many links here. ;) )

Hoto · 2 years ago

nice cash from google. but i got a question too. why do you post a pic of an check of august 2006 ???? didn`t you get any checks anymore or is this just the best check you ever had ??? it makes me think. it will be alright if you post a check witch is on month old and just 500 $ because that`s a lot of money for me too.

Kline · 2 years ago

"at least $2000 a month"

well.. the check only says $1982...

hah.. just taking the piss.

Good stuff though, I need to start working on my ad placement, as it's getting me pretty awful conversion rates. I love the postcard one, but I can never find enough space on my pages to put a normal ad, let alone something huge. I guess I just need to be more creative and eek out a bit more space for the moneymaker.

Martin · 2 years ago

Joseph: Everton is using a 300x250 box which does convert best next to 336x280

Hoto: Most webmasters changed their payment method from Checks to Bank Deposits which is far more convenient.

If you do get 4%+ CTR you should not change anything. If it is below that figure and you are running a blog or similar website you should consider changing ad placement and appearance.

TheAdsenseConsultant · 2 years ago

Very interesting tips you have got there!

I think that most people won't have the patience to do the "image" thing but you never know.

I just hope that they don't get a "love note" from Google also......

Another thing that came to mind while I was typing in my comment was that a lot of people have blogs on blogger.com and putting images on the side requires that you have a "hosting" site since blogger won't just take any image source.

abhishek · 2 years ago

I would agree with you on point 3 & 4 as they are the ones that generate most of the money. I would definitely like to learn how to make that picture ads
Cheers
Abhishek

horisly · 2 years ago

the point 5 is really amazing.

Zath · 2 years ago

Some good advice here, some of which I already knew, but some I hadn't read before, thanks for this useful post Joseph!

Pablo · 2 years ago

Tip #1 is against TOS my friend.

Mr. Mind Power · 2 years ago

The quickest way to make some snazzy ads would be with the freeware Adsense Decorator. You can download it here:

http://www.filedudes.com/AdSense_Decorator-down...

I also find it helpful to place adsense blocks near download links on my freeware page. But mind you- not too near or Google would warn you. 14pt is enough distance between the links and the blocks.

Cheerios,
J

prestamos · 2 years ago

How long will be this legal?, and not sure but I mean that we can force user´s to click ads

Bush Mackel · 2 years ago

When I'm making $100 from Google every month, I will be king of the world. ... My world that is. (#);)

Bush Mackel · 2 years ago

+1

Sorry, forgot to add this in my original comment : I think it's interesting you say not to blend your ads when Everton does it and obviously he is more than successful with it.

cheekopek · 2 years ago

that's an inspiring check dude

good tips there, i'm just afraid it might be deem as black hat, well we all know adsense is trigger happy in banning

Castigador · 2 years ago

I tried tip number 1, check it out here. Thanks for the tips!

mike · 2 years ago

Great tips. I was always unsure about the unblended/blended ads debate. I'm going to try unblending for a few weeks . . .

Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago

Marvy! I didn't even know it was an ad until I looked closely. I even clicked on the ad. :D

The exception to using banner ads (which tend to be ignored) is to insert it in between very long paragraphs, so it looks like a part of the paragraph.

Look at this leaderboard

http://www.e-mesotherapy.com/

It's a site full of scraped content but the adsense implementation is okay: you're forced to read the ad.

Now contrast it with this site:

http://www.myelectronicsbazaar.com/

Sure, it looks flashier, but do you think you'll read the ads posted on the periphery of your vision. I doubt it.

Here's one with the ads overtly flirting in your face:

http://therealproxy.info/

Way over the top. Adsense can't escape your notice, but you'd bail out quickly from irritation

Now mosey over here and inspect how delightfully placed the images are:

http://www.ivyuniversities.com/programs.htm

Observe how the pictures mask the ads.

Selbourne · 2 years ago

Are you sure that one could use the google ads like the woman holding a banner?
I have seen google more tolerant to popular websites than the lesser known ones.

Anyways, I loved to read the wiki write up of Robert Cialdini. Now i know why offers come with a "limited period only" tag.

Thanks

Joseph Plazo · 2 years ago

To date, I still see many sites using these kinds of ads. You can frame the ads, but you can't line images to the left, making them appear like bullet points. Neither can you have signs, arrows or fingers saying "click here" or "sponsor us".

If you feel leery of dressing up adsense, simply insert them between paragraphs of free downloads like I do here:

http://www.xtrememind.com/freeware.htm

CTR on this page is very high

Gili · 2 years ago

Joseph,

Thanks for this content.
I fully agree with Martin than 300_250 and 336_280 are the most converting.
Tip 1 is a bit risky. Adsense is the main money maker of many blogs and until this sort of implementation is not officially approved, i won't recommend anyone to try it. As far as tip 2 - It's a good idea, buit need to be wisely implemented.

Best,
Gili

Porsche · 2 years ago

This is very wise advice. Anyway I read a lot of articles about adsense optimization for income increasing and I can say from my experience that they work.

David · 2 years ago

not sure if its legal to place images next to adsense... but iirc, its not

Artem · 2 years ago

Excellent tips, Everton, but anybody should not forget that all this will be wok only in case of good quantity of traffic.

Sasha T. · 2 years ago

Again, you need traffic to make money. Even though your advice is good but if you don't have traffic you don't make money. Btw nice trick with the lady holding ads ;)

S.

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