Ad Placement - Any ideas for this site?

**Bogart** · May 15th, 2009, 11:15 pm

The site in my sig is getting around 5000 uniques a month but the ctr is low. I just added a small horizontal ad in the center. Do you believe that this ad will work?

According to the google heat map, the placement is good. But it's difficult to say due to the image in the center.

**i13** · May 16th, 2009, 3:37 am

I would have .......
Exchange the footer nav bar with top adsense link unit.
Add 336X280 block in between header name and image.
Removed the 234X60 banner.

**xtrafile** · May 16th, 2009, 9:02 am

I'd have one of the left or right hand side, one in the main content and one in the footer. Your flashy main content one would probably be where your clicks would come in from.

**Bogart** · May 16th, 2009, 10:55 am

Originally Posted by i13

I would have .......
Exchange the footer nav bar with top adsense link unit.
Add 336X280 block in between header name and image.
Removed the 234X60 banner.

It looks like good ad placement. I want to give the 234X60 banner a chance. No way to check at the moment as adsense is down for maintenance.

I getting too many model ads. I'm sure that is also killing the ctr. I rewrote the index page. So I'm hoping that I get better ad targeting once the adsense bot crawls the page.

**Bogart** · May 24th, 2009, 4:07 pm

Originally Posted by i13

I would have .......
Exchange the footer nav bar with top adsense link unit.
Add 336X280 block in between header name and image.
Removed the 234X60 banner.

This set-up is working the best. The site made $3 in the last week.