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ZachH
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One of the best Google Adsense tips ever - 4/18/2005 17:25:00
I just launched a site called www statbrain .com, it is a free service that estimates the number of visitors any site has.
When I launched the site I put it into a couple of forums for reviews in order to get some feedback. This was very helpful and I got tons of feedback. I made a lot of changes some of them right away and other changes were a bit more low priority.
One the low priority changes was changing the look of my Adsense ads. I’ve had several posts saying that the ads looked bad, because the ads were not in the same colors as the rest of the site. The ads were default Google Adsense colors.
Making sure that the Google Ads are an integrated part of your site and look like the rest of the site is not revolutionary news. It is an old Google Adsense tip and you might have heard the tip before, but I think this is interesting because this is an example of the exact result that a minor change like this can do. I have nothing to hide so I’ll give you the exact numbers of the effect of this very small change.
The numbers are based on 4 days before the change and 4 days after the change. Here are the numbers:
Before:
Pageviews 882
Clicks: 1
Click through rate: 0.11%
After:
Pageviews 1125
Clicks: 8
Click through rate: 0.70%
The numbers are not huge because the site was just launched, but I think they are large enough. This was a serious shock to me. A minor change like this increased my earnings 7 times – pretty wild.
I hope you can learn something from this, I certainly did. Let me hear your comments or if you have similar stories. It would also be interesting to hear if 0.70% is high or low compared to others.
Regards,
-Zach
< Message edited by Mojo -- 4/18/2005 18:13:49 >
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Mojo
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RE: One of the best Google Adsense tips ever - 4/18/2005 18:10:25
That is old news and it is not axiomatic. Not to mention the fact that your CTR is so low that even an accidental click or two from visitors will make huge increases.
Move your Adsense Ads into the center of the screen, medium rectangle, and watch what happens.
But hey - at least this post gave you another back link...
EDIT: on second thought... I removed the link for reasons that are obvious to me and likely yourself.
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