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I've been studying up on maximizing adsense revenues and am very curious as to what other people think about optimizing.
The one thread I came across said to make the ads appear to be apart of the site. I understand that this can mislead users and make them think they are clicking on an internal link (a link in the site), but it actually is an ad.
Any thoughts on this? Maybe I need to outweigh my morals for my wallet, because more sites I know do this, i.e. ebay, mysql, and even google it's self (in the sponsored results sections).
Anyways right now I have a have a side bar type ad that stands out, but will be switching over to a leaderboard style. I was also reading up on how less pages = higher money (http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/4015306.htm)...is this true, even for a dynamic site that has like 1 page with many options in that page?
Blending to appear as part of an article or whatever has gotten some people warned in the past.
Just use some common sense and you'll be fine.
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I'm not ready to go too close to the border myself. Esp not if the border isn't clearly marked, open to interpretation, and might shift unannounced. You might find yourself on the wrong side of it all too easy if you venture too close.
Any thoughts on this?
If you have any doubts send Google a sample page link for approval.
If granted keep that authority safe!
make the ads appear to be apart of the site. I understand that this can mislead users
While searching for drivers in the last week or so I've come across lots of sites doing exactly that. NO, I didn't find what I was remotely looking for.
When I have the time I'll do it all over again and make a list to report to both Google Search as well as AdSense.
There are far too many sites out there which do NOT provide the information searched for, blend AdSense to be part of the site and are simply time wasters.
I don't feel its right to blend ads in the site to trick users (this is just the way I see it. As of now, I put ads up on the right side bar and allow users to hide them as they feel.
I'm just wondering if placing the leader board ads (since they pay higher) in the search results or postings them selves will deter my users?
Just trying to find that happy medium.
While searching for drivers in the last week or so I've come across lots of sites doing exactly that. NO, I didn't find what I was remotely looking for.When I have the time I'll do it all over again and make a list to report to both Google Search as well as AdSense.
Happened to me last week too. Sadly, some are not "standar publishers" so they didn't have those squared ads with links inside, instead those free layout ads only privileged publishers have. This mean they had more freedom to disguise their ads as content... that's bad.
Remember, even as you can fool a visitor, it will happen just this, they will remember the domain name as a time waster and won't be back again.
That is exactly what I'm talking about in this topic....It becomes a stance of weighing out what's important to you (and let me refine what I mean by morals vs wallet). It's more of:
consistent revenue vs fluctuating revenue
Consistent Revenue: where you'll average daily this amount, because your user volume is a steady average.
Fluctuating Revenue: where you may (or may not) get high hits one day, but sacrifice a potential repeat user.
Having ads on your site becomes a balancing act. I agree with johnnie where websites should clearly (or at least not too blended) show that the links are ads. For my site, I'm going to continue to look at it from my users standpoint. Offer the ads (external links that will lead them away from my site), but clearly note with the box around it, that they are ads and really OPTIMIZE my pages so that they provide the right type of ads for my users.
