Comments on: Conclusions from tracking ads

By: Hong Kong Man

Hong Kong Man — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:59:00 +0000

On further thoughts, I would also add that if people see too many adds they may become anti ads and not click on any just because they feel they are being sold to.

By: Hong Kong Man

Hong Kong Man — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:56:13 +0000

I would also de – apartment – alise you page and understand that different things work on different pages. You should ensure that you monitor the channels very tightly and tweak poor performing pages.

By: Donnay

Donnay — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:38:43 +0000

I would also recommend that you should ban lowly paying competition adverts. You can find them out by doing a search on your keywords in google and noting which ones are listed further down the results page. If they compete with your site you should ban them in the adsense control centre. This tops your competitor getting cheap traffic.

By: Andrew Mackintosh

Andrew Mackintosh — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:34:22 +0000

I would advise people to use the large rectangle adsense (if it doesn’t make your site too ugly) and link it into your page. It can help click through rates.

Also, perhaps by changing where the adsense adverts are placed from time to time, it may encourage a better CTR from repeat users.

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By: big4guy

big4guy — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:52:57 +0000

I totally agree with you Duncan. Regular readers do have a lower CTR than new readers. Regular readers in a way are used to the type of content the are looking for. So if they visit a blog occassionally, they will simply ignore the ads and go straight to hte content they want. However, in case of new readers, they might have to do some searching before they get to the content they want. In this process there is a greater possibiltiy that they might click on ads thus increasing the CTR. Makes sense….right!!

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By: Vix

Vix — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:02:36 +0000

Been trying out your suggestions regarding ad placements and revenue have doubled!

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Affordable SEO by Sam Freedom — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:04:13 +0000

Duncan, you're amazing. You make it all sound so simple that even a dunderhead like me can understand it. Unfortunately, I've not been testing the ads on the top banner spot and will now go change them to banner ads rather than Google ads. Thanks for the kind help. Sam affordable seo services

By: Mike Sansone

Mike Sansone — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:40:07 +0000

Having just started to incorporate ads in posts, this post held my interest. Any thoughts to which size ads work best? Have you received feedback on which sizes your readers prefer?

P.S. I like the way you utilize the Recent Posts below.

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:01:15 +0000

Echoing others here Duncan, but this is a very neat post, highly informative and with lots of food for thought. It’s generous of you to share this, and especially appreciated I would guess by others who, like me, get a bit overwhelmed by the varying opinions on this stuff. I’m also fascinated when I see in my stats, each day, old posts being visited.

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By: JErm

JErm — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:12:49 +0000

Thanks for the helpful report, I am now installing that plugin you mentioned. Good luck with your web empire! :)

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Duncan’s Ad Tracking Results | Adsenseology — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 02:35:04 +0000

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By: Vix

Vix — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:01:08 +0000

I agree on the value of old posts; something like a random link or a “Best Of” or “Favorites” series would be helpful.

By: martin

martin — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:37:13 +0000

Interersting about the old posts. After they scroll off our page we seem to forget all about them. I think we need to harness the potentials that our older posts have – I don’t know many people visit archives or actively seek older stuff.

Maybe more thought should be put into getting older posts somehow back on the main page… maybe a random feature, a best of…, related posts etc.,

Good post Duncan, got the mind thinking now.

By: colbert

colbert — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:58:25 +0000

great post. very informative. I will apply the knowledge and tell my readers this too.

By: ahorre

ahorre — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:07:19 +0000

Nice piece on the reco.. of mixing the content. I could clearly see how that will definately bring new visitors. Geoffrey

By: Dominic Foster

Dominic Foster — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:38:45 +0000

It’s interesting what you say about niche topics creating a higher CTR. One thing I like to do after writing a post is to view the post on its own and see what AdSense serves up.

I’m currently creating a new website and am consciously implimenting extremely niche posts about 20% of the time to see how they perform.

By: Jochen

Jochen — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:17:18 +0000

Thank you for sharing! Especially pointing out the different behaviours of regular readers and new readers.

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By: Dan Wolfgang

Dan Wolfgang — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:06:01 +0000

This is some excellent information, thanks.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:41:48 +0000

Nice job Duncan.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:25:57 +0000

Very interesting post. After configuring channels for all of the Adsense ads running on each of my sites also. It is interesting to actually see what ads work and what ads don’t. I have also found that by varying the rotation of colours of the adsense ads this can help a bit with the regular reader blindness.