Increase Adsense CTR by doing this
Here is a cool trick that I use on my niche websites. This is somewhat common sense, but we forget to implement it. If you are doing it already, consider this as a reminder :)
Here is a extremely blurred screen shot of one of my niche site. I happen to use a free article for this page.
It’s hard to see, but if you take a look at it carefully you will be able to see that all my links a plain blue on this page. But for the other links, including the author’s links are made black so that the links are hidden with the article itself.
Why would I do that? Simply, I want my visitors to stay at my site and click on Adsense ads instead of following other external links. You can do this easily by using CSS.
You may think this is too selfish, but this trick will definitely increase your current Adsense CTR.
August 8th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
This is a great idea. I’d much rather the visitors click the adsense than visit the original authors site.
August 7th, 2006 at 1:48 am
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August 5th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
This is what i have tried on one of my sites
http://static.flickr.com/82/207706634_672e873246_o.jpg
August 5th, 2006 at 7:44 am
Interesting concept. I must test this out. However wouldnt your blue links shout out as Ads. Is there another way to bring attention to the adsense links?
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I knew some other tips about adsense integration, I think it was an adsense integration guide, but don’t know where I read it hehe
July 29th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Yep, this is what I am doing with a few sites.
You want the Adsense ads to stand out a bit with the blue links.
So like you said, make the other links on your page blend in.
Joel Osborne